Archbishop Angaelos_Social_02

For a Coptic Christian to speak about trust, many people outside the life of the church would say yes but you're the people whose members were lined up on that beach in Libya. Where was God's kingdom then? Interesting, I was in Washington just after that and I'd done an incredible array of interviews, probably about 30 in two days, because this one particular incident had caught the world's attention in no other way I think and it changed the world. One of the last interviews that I did – and I was reluctant to do it and was about to say no – it was a CNN interviewer, a secular interviewer who said: “So, Did that make you lose your faith?" "Because surely you wanted them to be OK?" And it really made me realise – I said "actually no." In actual fact, I've been reading long enough and learning long enough and praying long enough to know that when I pray, of course I prayed that they'd be well, but I also prayed that if they weren't that they'd be strong and reassured and confident, and that's exactly what we saw in the video. So it is, "Lord, this is what we want, and this is my scenario, this is what I think is best, but at the end of the day You are the Divine Lord, You are sovereign, let Thy Kingdom Come however You desire." And when it came that they had to lose their lives, they presented themselves in such a Christlike way that they impacted the world more than they ever would have had they been set free.