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• I am an Orthodox Christian and have recently been greatly blessed through reading Fr. Matthew the Poor's book on Orthodox Prayer and Fr. Mark Gruber's (OSB) book of experiences among the Coptic monasteries of Egypt, now dated by a few years.  May God be greatly praised for the blessing and example of the Coptic Church to all who would see. It is a subject of history that Islam dominates Egypt. I wonder if any Coptic source has written about this given the distress which the Coptic Church lives under in its homeland. Similarly, of course, most Patriarchates are now found in lands dominated by Islam.  Humanly speaking, this is easy to understand. In Divine terms, for me, it is difficult to understand. What is God's message to us for His Church. Repent and return to the course I set down for you? Something else?