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Tetrachloride

(8,485 posts)
Fri Aug 20, 2021, 07:33 PM Aug 2021

Mary and Joseph refugees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_into_Egypt

this page has several photos of where Mary and Joseph are believed to have stayed.

https://www.keepcalmandwander.com/jesus-coptic-cairo-saints-sergius-and-bacchus-church/

The big religious places of history in Egypt are guarded by simultaneously by regular police and soldiers with automatic rifles and machine guns.

Westerners may find this mixture of Christian saints and Egyptian military to be inconceivable. Egyptians and I surmise most Muslims think it’s normal.
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Mary and Joseph refugees (Original Post) Tetrachloride Aug 2021 OP
Still surprised at how many people think edhopper Aug 2021 #1
I see people every day looking to escape poverty and Tetrachloride Aug 2021 #2
... Major Nikon Aug 2021 #3

edhopper

(35,041 posts)
1. Still surprised at how many people think
Fri Aug 20, 2021, 10:49 PM
Aug 2021

this story really happened.
It's a fine birth myth, but a myth non the less.

Tetrachloride

(8,485 posts)
2. I see people every day looking to escape poverty and
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 01:04 PM
Aug 2021

I see people every day looking to escape poverty and abuse.

As a kid, my rural family and church helped SE Asia refugees of Vietnam War and more tho i don’t remember much before 1970.

Similarly, my choice of home is balance of a safe place to live and accomplish something worthwhile.

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