(d.c.303) Holy Martyrs slain in the Thebaid, Upper Egypt, under Emperor Diocletian . Laura Plummer, 33, of Hull, East Yorks, is facing the potential of the death penalty after bringing banned painkillers into Egypt. Are there any other sources for a fart leading to a revolt in Egypt or a deadly riot in Jerusalem? 15,000 Christians were living in this area and more than 10,000 of them were killed. AL AOUR, Egypt -- Death is everywhere in Al Aour. save. hide. When a video surfaced late Sunday showing Islamic State fighters beheading 21 men in Libya, it seemed no family here was spared.Thirteen of the victims hailed from this dusty Egyptian town, roughly three hours south of Cairo. report. (At the end of Mubarak’s rule, the figure was between 5,000 and 10,000.) 87% Upvoted. Solesm. share. Saints and Feasts: 45 Holy Martyrs of Nikopolis, Armenia; Our Holy Father Gregory, Bishop of Assa; 10,000 Fathers martyred in Egypt; Apollonios the Martyr; Deposition of the Precious Robe of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Moscow; Righteous Father Anthony of the Kiev Caves; Parthenios and Eumenios of Koudoumas Two groups of martyrs, otherwise unknown, who were slain in Egypt. In Alexandria they burned in fire, crucified or beheaded numerous martyrs on a daily basis, among whom were Leonides (Origen's father), Irenaeus Bishop of Lugdunum (today Lyon of France) and Saint Perpetua in Carthage, an aristocrat with her faithful servant Felicity, who were torn up by beasts. 30 comments. The incident took place shortly before the Passover and caused a riot that led to the deaths of 10,000 people." He ruled for 17 years during the 18th Dynasty and came to be known by some fascinating names, including Great Heretic , The Heretic Pharaoh, and Rebel Pharaoh . Her family warn she may die in prison before facing a trial. 4741 From this to the end of the section there is an Armenian version extant, to be found in the Spicil. According to one theory, approx. Egypt’s prisons are filled to triple their capacity, and the regime has built 16 more prisons to handle the overflow. Akhenaten (aka Akhenaton) is one of Ancient Egypt's most controversial and notable pharaohs. Global charity Open Doors has disputed the way in which statistics on Christian “martyrs” are collected, arguing that an annual figure of 90,000, recently reported widely, is significantly higher than the accurately verifiable number. There were many other known martyrs who were put to death in Egypt, a large number of them dying in Alexandria. The figure, reported by some media and cited by an Italian academic on Vatican Radio, was […] Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 07/10/2020. Its researchers started by estimating the number of Christians who died as martyrs between 2000 and 2010 - about one million by their reckoning - and divided that number by … Ask the 2300 people who were killed in Gaza in 2014, or the 10,000 wounded during what the coup regime did one year after Morsi was overthrown. Egypt, Galatia and North Africa suffered the most. Who can forget when Morsi stifled ‘Israel’s’ war on Gaza in 2012 on-par another massacre, [1] withdrawing Egypt’s ambassador to the Zionist entity. i. p. 1, edited by M. Pitra, Paris 1852, and which was taken by him from an Armenian ms. in the Mechitarist Library at Venice, described as being of the twelfth century. Nagasaki two days before the atomic bombing , USSBS, 1945-08-07/1945-08-07, From the collection of: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum