Reports in the Western media on the overthrow of President Morsi in Egypt were coloured by outrage over the ejection of a democratically elected president.
The United States curtailed its financial and military support to Egypt. But other voices, especially from Christian leaders, have insisted on a different narrative.
The Coptic Archbishop
In July, Archbishop Angaelos of the Coptic Church in Egypt told the General Synod in York that since the election of President Morsi the stock market was at a five-year low. There was 33% unemployment, there have been 5,500 strikes or protests, and the debt was 85% of GDP. Crime figures were up. Armed robberies rocketed, and car thefts tripled. There have been more attacks on Christian churches than in the last 20 years.
