Just get rejected from a church service

[JohanHoffman]

I wanted to visit churches for a while and found one that was close to me and have a community I am familiar with. I was stopped by one of the local staff and ID-ed me, saying Muslims are not allowed due to security policies and that it's a muslim country and they will face a problem if people started thinking they are evanglizing people. I am an ex muslim and I wanted to feel connected but I didn't want to pressure them or make the situation awkward so I just left in silence.

 

[Reluctant Theologian]

Sorry to hear that - there are several countries with laws like that, yet hopefully some believers will choose to obey God more than man at the right moment for you - maybe find home-based fellowship/church if available around your area? In the meantime ask anything here ..

 

[Joseph G]

I wanted to visit churches for a while and found one that was close to me and have a community I am familiar with. I was stopped by one of the local staff and ID-ed me, saying Muslims are not allowed due to security policies and that it's a muslim country and they will face a problem if people started thinking they are evanglizing people. I am an ex muslim and I wanted to feel connected but I didn't want to pressure them or make the situation awkward so I just left in silence.

Praying the Spirit of our Lord Jesus will guide you to a Bible-believing Spirit-filled church with *courage*!

 

[SavedByGrace3]

You have to try to see it from their perspective. Christians have reason to be fearful. It is not so much that a small group of radicals with obvious political ties have no scruples about beheading men, women, and children... it is the lack of outrage from more moderate Muslims. They, like everyone else, are only human. So, if it seems like Christians are scared... it is because they are. This is a gruesome read, so beware:

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70 bodies, including women, children and the elderly, were discovered on February 14 in a church of the Evangelical and Baptist Center of Congo and Africa (CEBCEA) in Kasanga, near the village of Maiba, in the Lubero area, in the province of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to reports by Radio Okapi, local civil society believes that these are the bodies of missing people kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on February 12. The bodies of the people, beheaded with machetes, were found with their hands tied behind their backs.
It is suspected that Islamists of the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces), a group originally from Uganda that has been active for decades in the east of the DRC, especially in North Kivu, committed the massacre. In 2019, the ADF joined the Islamic State (for the birth and development of the militia, see Fides, 24/6/2023), which further strengthens its "jihadist" profile.
The Ugandan army has increased its presence in the Congolese provinces of Ituri and North Kivu in recent days, officially to act against the ADF, but perhaps also to control (or support?) the offensive of the M23 and the Rwandan army in the Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides, 21/2/2025)

AFRICA/DR CONGO - Beheaded bodies of 70 people found in a Protestant church

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70 bodies, including women, children and the elderly, were disc

www.fides.org

 

[timf]

If you want to learn and grow in Christian faith , there are many web sites you can visit like Christian Pioneer

If you want fellowship or someone to connect with, you might want to call the church and ask if there was someone you could visit with individually.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

I wanted to visit churches for a while and found one that was close to me and have a community I am familiar with. I was stopped by one of the local staff and ID-ed me, saying Muslims are not allowed due to security policies and that it's a muslim country and they will face a problem if people started thinking they are evanglizing people. I am an ex muslim and I wanted to feel connected but I didn't want to pressure them or make the situation awkward so I just left in silence.

Briefly ask them how else and where else someone like yourself can learn from them about the Christian faith and follow Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately, since Egypt is predominantly Islamic, you're going to run into political difficulties of this nature, and Christians naturally have to be careful not to upset local authorities, particularly those which are Muslim.