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US Senators Send President Trump Letter Regarding Egypt’s NGO Law

On June 19, 2017, ten U.S. Senators sent a letter to President Trump regarding Egypt's new NGO law that imposes draconian measures on civil...

- June 23, 2017 0

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Egypt’s Parliament Thumbs Nose at Court, Approves Islands Deal with Saudi

By Al-Monitor -Egypt's parliament quickly gave its blessing to a controversial maritime demarcation agreement under which Egypt is to transfer sovereignty over the islands...

- June 20, 2017 0

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Coptic Solidarity Condemns Barbaric Killing of Coptic Pilgrims En Route to St. Samuel Monastery

For Immediate Release(Washington, DC) May 30, 2017/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Coptic Solidarity condemns the barbaric murder of Coptic Christians journeying to the Monastery of St. Samuel the...

- May 30, 2017 0

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Egypt ripped at Senate foreign aid hearing

By Pecquet -Congress Pulse, Al MonitorA bipartisan panel of experts ripped Egypt as a floundering authoritarian state April 25 and urged Congress to rethink...

- April 26, 2017 0

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Palm Sunday Bombing Underscores Depth of Egypt’s Anti-Christian Bigotry

By John Rossomando - IPT NewsSuicide bombings of two Coptic churches in Egypt Sunday by ISIS terrorists should not be viewed in isolation. The...

- April 13, 2017 0

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Church bombings leave many Egyptians questioning Sisi’s ‘war on terror’

By Aya Nader Al-MonitorDespite failing to prevent terrorist attacks so far, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has made more promises to increase security in...

- April 12, 2017 0

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Judith Miller: Trump, Egypt and the future

By Judith Miller - FOX NewsThe Palm Sunday bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt are a tragedy for Egyptian Christians, the Middle East’s oldest...

- April 12, 2017 0

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Sisi, Trump, and the Politics of Designating the Muslim Brotherhood

By Clifford Smith - National ReviewThe group uses violent means when necessary to advance its Islamist agenda.Hopes that the Trump administration will designate the...

- April 7, 2017 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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