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The Crisis of Christians in Egypt

By Gabriel Said Reynolds- First ThingsOn Monday, December 12, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi walked alongside the Coptic Pope Tawadros (Theodore) II at the...

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Egypt’s Coptic Christians are stuck between between ISIS and an indifferent government

Farid Y. Farid – Quartz AfricaJust over a week ago, terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on St Peter & St Paul’s...

- December 21, 2016 0

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Like Past Egyptian Leaders, El-Sissi Has Failed to Protect Coptic Christians

By Frederick Deknatel – World Politics ReviewA bomb ripped through a church in central Cairo last week, killing at least 26 people in the...

- December 20, 2016 0

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Egypt Civil Society Urges Sisi to Reject NGO Law

By POMEDAfter the Egyptian parliament moved forward with an extremely repressive NGO law on November 29, twenty-two NGOs, four political parties, and 19 public...

- December 6, 2016 0

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Where the Turkish Military Fails, Egypt’s Succeeds

By Steven A. Cook - Foreign AffairsIn a half-decade of extraordinary moments in the Middle East, /images of citizens swarming tanks and other military...

- December 1, 2016 0

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President Sisi’s popularity is waning: the meaning and implications

Mohamed Ali Ibrahim – Egypt IndependentThe figures announced by the Baseera Center for Public Opinion Research on the popularity of the president are unfit...

- November 23, 2016 0

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Sisi: Trump has ‘deep understanding’ of our region

By WorldTribuneDonald Trump will be a strong leader for America and has a “deep understanding” of the Middle East, Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi...

- November 20, 2016 0

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Sisi Congratulates Trump, Invites Him to Cairo

By POMEDFollowing the U.S. presidential elections, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi congratulated President-elect Donald Trump via telephone and extended an invitation for him to visit...

- November 10, 2016 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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