The story of the Egyptian Zabbaleen or "rubbish people" opens a window to a world that is incomprehensible! The people are Christian Copts, and number upwards of 100,000.
The children are born into the community--there is no other life for them; no other way to make a living; nowhere for them to go. Children leave school by age 12 to help support their families who live, eat, sleep and work their entire lives in garbage, along with rats, pigs and other animals. The church they attend is a massive underground cave--excavated out of solid rock because in Egypt, only mosques get building permission. Even their tiny newspaper is printed in secret --with a threat of 3 to 6 years jail time if they are caught. The filming is done mostly in secret because this is a secret Egypt does not want to share with the world.
And it gets worse. The daughters are often kidnapped, forced to convert and placed into forced marriages. If they complain it is they who are arrested, threatened, tortured or raped by the secret police. This is the same if anyone should dare consider converting to Christianity.
Please watch the entire film...and ask--why does the UN pour untold money into areas controlled by terrorists and these people are ignored. Pray for a way for these poor people to be helped.
The children are born into the community--there is no other life for them; no other way to make a living; nowhere for them to go. Children leave school by age 12 to help support their families who live, eat, sleep and work their entire lives in garbage, along with rats, pigs and other animals. The church they attend is a massive underground cave--excavated out of solid rock because in Egypt, only mosques get building permission. Even their tiny newspaper is printed in secret --with a threat of 3 to 6 years jail time if they are caught. The filming is done mostly in secret because this is a secret Egypt does not want to share with the world.
And it gets worse. The daughters are often kidnapped, forced to convert and placed into forced marriages. If they complain it is they who are arrested, threatened, tortured or raped by the secret police. This is the same if anyone should dare consider converting to Christianity.
Please watch the entire film...and ask--why does the UN pour untold money into areas controlled by terrorists and these people are ignored. Pray for a way for these poor people to be helped.
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