Egyptian Catholics - Egyptian Eastern Catholics, Egyptian Roman Catholics, Egyptian Cardinals, Magdi Allam, Gregory II Youssef, Maximos V Hakim (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Egyptian Eastern Catholics, Egyptian Roman Catholics, Egyptian Cardinals, Magdi Allam, Gregory Ii Youssef, Maximos V Hakim, Nazli Sabri, Samir Khalil Samir, Stphanos I Sidarouss, Nerses Bedros Xix, Stphanos Ii Ghattas, Bruno Hussar, Antonios Naguib. Excerpt: Magdi Allam, as a Catholic Magdi Cristiano Allam (Arabic: Mad Allm; born April 22, 1952), is an Egyptian-born Italian journalist and famous political leader, noted for his criticism of Islamic Extremism, his defence of Judeo-Christian roots of Europe and the West, and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world. Allam converted from Islam to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. Allam was born in Egypt and raised by Muslim parents. His mother Safeya was a believing and practicing Muslim, whereas his father Muhammad was "completely secular and agreed with the opinion of the majority of Egyptians who took the West as a model in regard to individual freedom, social customs and cultural and artistic fashions." At age four, his mother entrusted him to the care of Sister Lavinia of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, and later he was sent to a Catholic boarding school in Egypt - the Institute of Don Bosco - for junior high and high school, where he was further exposed to Western culture and civilization. Allam describes growing up in a vibrant and multicultural Cairo. He recounts vividly the "fragrances, sounds, colors and flavors of his beloved Aunt Adreya's home" and remembers Cairo as a "colorful, pluralistic and tolerant city where girls wore miniskirts and boys sported Beatles haircuts." He has positive memories of Egyptian society during his childhood years, characterizing it as having a "social... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7080465