Five Years Ago, ISIS Executed 21 Christians on a Libyan Beach

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Five years ago this month, ISIS executed 21 Christian men on a beach Libya. Their masked executors stood in all black behind the men, who knelt in a line wearing orange jumpsuits. After the Islamic State released a video of their murders, images of this massacre of Coptic Christians reverberated around the world. But despite the cultural impact left, Egyptian Christians have long experienced persecution, says Archbishop Angaelos, who serves in London. “The interesting thing is, we live it with a sense of resilience, but we have never fallen into a state of victimhood or triumphalism,” he said. “We realize that it is the cross of Christ. …It's not the end of the road because there is a resurrection that comes after the cross and the empty tomb. And so it is in that hope that we continue to live. And it's in that hope that we continue to carry that cross knowing that it will be removed from us.” Archbishop Angaelos, who still remembers the day he learned of the news recently joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Daniel Harrell to discuss why this act of persecution so greatly impacted the global church, the identity of the only non-Egyptian martyr, and whether the church will experience the same decline as it has in the rest of the Middle East. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Daniel Harrell Follow our guest on Twitter: Archbishop Angaelos Listen to Quick to Listen: Episode 38: How the Coptic Christian Church Endures Learn more about the 21 Martyrs film Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:24.6	5 years. Michael Del Rosario at Apologeticsguy.com. Five years ago, ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in Tripoli in Libya.
0:32.6	Their executors stood in black behind the men who were orange jumpsuits, and they were kneeling.
0:38.3	The images of this massacre reverberated around the world.
0:42.3	One evangelical church located downtown on one of Cairo's busiest streets hung a poster.
0:47.3	We learned from what the Messiah has said, it read, over the background of an Egyptian flag.
0:52.3	Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.
0:55.4	Within 36 hours, the Bible Society of Egypt created a tract that became the organization's
1:00.5	largest campaign ever, and more than 1.5 million of them were released.
1:04.8	Last year, a German writer published a book called The 21, A Journey into the Land of the Coptic Martyrs, which examined the lives and faith of the migrant workers who became these martyrs.
1:17.4	So we have done an episode exploring the Coptic church in Egypt previously. You can hear our conversation with Christianity today's Middle East correspondent Jason
1:28.1	Casper in episode 38.
1:30.9	This week, on Quick to Listen, we wanted to discuss the Coptic Church outside of Egypt.
1:36.2	What led these men to leave their country?
1:38.3	Why do they face persecution?
1:40.2	And as more people practice outside of Egypt, what does it mean for the future of the Coptic church?
1:51.3	Today is Wednesday, February 19th, and you are listening to Quick to Listen, where we go beyond hashtags and hot takes discuss a major cultural event.
2:13.0	I'm Morgan Lee, digital media producer here at Christianity Today.
2:17.4	My name's Daniel Harrell. I am the editor-in-chief of Christianity today.
2:21.6	So, Daniel, I wanted to do a gut check today, and I specifically want to take us back to this moment five years ago when this video came out.
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