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Coptic Christians Deprived of Home Worship Hall in Egypt

By Morning Star News - Nearly a year after declaring that attacks on Christians had hit a level not seen in decades, a Coptic Orthodox...

- September 26, 2018 0

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EIPR condemns the pressure exerted on ‘Dimshaw’ Copts to accept customary reconciliation And demands the trial of the attackers, compensating the victims and...

By Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights -The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the pressure exerted by state authorities on the affected Copts...

- September 26, 2018 0

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Authorities discontinue investigation of 2 Copts killed at Giza liquor shop

By Egypt Independent - Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-YoumGiza Prosecution office on Sunday has ended investigations of the murder of two Copts at liquor shop...

- August 14, 2018 0

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Egypt: Copts attacked after Facebook post showing ‘contempt of Islam’

By WorldWatch Monitor - An attack by a Muslim mob on Copts in a village in the Egyptian governorate of Minya on Monday (9 July)...

- July 11, 2018 0

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Egypt: brothers shot dead ahead of Coptic Christmas

By WorldWatch Monitor - Two brothers helping a Coptic Christian shop owner were shot dead on New Year’s Day in Giza, Greater Cairo. The men,...

- January 3, 2018 0

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Coptic Solidarity Condemns Attack on Mar Mina Church in Helwan, Egypt

For Immediate Release-Coptic Solidarity condemns the cowardly attack by armed gunmen on Mar Mina Church on December 29, in Helwan, a suburb south of...

- December 31, 2017 0

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عادل نعمان ـ المصري اليوم ـ كل مختل عقلى فى بلادى لا يقتل إلا مسيحيا، درب «المهابيل والمساعير» لا يسلكه سواهم، ألا يخطئ أحد المشايخ...

- December 4, 2017 0

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Soldier in Egypt Beaten to Death for His Christian Faith, Relatives Say

By Morning Star NewsThree officers attacked new arrival after learning of his faith, they say.Egyptian military officers beat a new soldier to death on...

- July 31, 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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