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Muslim knifeman attacks Egypt church guard

By AFP -An Egyptian Muslim stabbed and wounded a security guard after being prevented from entering a church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria...

- July 16, 2017 0

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المصري اليوم ـطعن شاب، اليوم السبت، أحد أفراد الأمن الإداري بكنيسة القديسين بالإسكندرية، بآلة حادة، بعدما حاول منعه من الدخول.وقالت مصادر بمديرية أمن الاسكندرية،...

- July 15, 2017 0

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Egypt’s Copts Say They’re Tired of Being ‘Martyrs’ As Deadly Attacks Continue

By Jay Gotera - The Christian Post -The streams of blood from defenseless Copts massacred by Islamist extremists continue to drench Egypt—with no end...

- July 15, 2017 0

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Coptic martyrdom in the age of the security state

By Mariam Ibrahim - Mada Masr -Is a religious narrative that frames the killing of Copts as God's will at odds with mounting resistance...

- July 13, 2017 0

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Murder of fifth Copt in six weeks creating ‘state of fear and terror’ among Egypt’s Christians

By World Watch MonitorA fifth Copt has been murdered in Egypt in six weeks, aggravating fears among Christians that Islamist extremists are targeting them...

- July 13, 2017 0

Briefing Papers

The Copts in Sisi’s Egypt: Between rhetoric and reality

By Dr. George Gurguis, MD -The decent into chaos that Egypt was heading for under the Muslim Brotherhood rule and President Morsi was averted...

- July 13, 2017 0

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Egypt’s Copts keep the faith in the fight against Isis

By Heba Saleh – The Financial Times -The black-clad Isis militants who massacred 29 Egyptian Christians travelling to a desert monastery in May, sprayed their...

- July 13, 2017 0

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Some survivors of Egypt’s Coptic church attack react

By Dibie Ike Michael with Reuters - Published by Africa NewsTen-year-old Egyptian schoolboy Mina Habib recounts the day Islamist gunmen killed his father in...

- July 3, 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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