The Episcopal Church in Egypt has joined the growing number of groups who have condemned Christian attacks on Muslims in the Central African Republic (CAR).
In a Tuesday statement, The Reverend Mouneer Anis, Bishop of the Episcopal and Anglican Diocese of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and the President Bishop of the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East, said he hoped the international community would respond to “stop this humanitarian disaster”.
Of course the good bishop is correct to condemn this violence. [url=http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/02/18/the-central-african-republic/]In context[/url], it is primarily a reaction to Islamist violence in the CAR over the past year, with thousands of Christian dead. Nothing justifies the murders of Muslims who were not the perpetrators, of course, and Bishop Mouneer is right to oppose this.