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Egypt’s Coptic Christians Fleeing Country After Islamist Takeover

Father Mina's church has an important place in the history of the Arab Spring. It was struck by a car bomb on New Year's...

Egyptian Court Sentences Family to 15 Years in Prison for Converting to Christianity

It also sentenced Nabil Adly Hana, Ayad Naguib Ayad, Hany Bebawy Reyad, Amgad Awad Bebawy, Shehata Wahba Ghobrial, Mohamed Oweis abdel-Gawad, and Mohamed abdel-Fatah...

UPRISING – A New Documentary; Behind of the Scenes Look at the Egyptian Revolution

Film opens Jan. 11 at Playhouse 7 in Pasadena and The Quad Cinema NYCProduced, directed and written by Fredrik Stanton with an Academy Award-winning...

Ousted SCC judge Files Suit Against New Constitution

She also alleged that the court has been facing a “systematic plot to destroy it."“The so-called Constitution represents an unprecedented assault on judicial authority,”...

Egypt’s Media Is Free…to Praise Mursi

The most recent example of this broken promise came last week, with news of the investigation by prosecutors of renowned satirist Bassem Youssef -...

Egypt’s Christians Worried by Islamists’ Rise

At St. Mary’s Church in the dense and religiously mixed neighborhood of Imbaba, where sectarian clashes have flared before, midnight Mass on Christmas Eve...

Ex Brotherhood Leader: Group Views Copts As Second-Class Citizens; Public As Unbelievers

Speaking in an interview with Egyptian newspaper Youm7, he added the leaders of the Brotherhood view Egyptian society, meaning those outside of the group,...

Egyptian Coptic Christians Mark Christmas With Fear Of Future

Islamist President Mohammed Morsi called Tawadros with Christmas greetings and sent one of his aides to the Christmas mass.Concerned for their future and their...

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