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Attack on Christians in Egypt raises many questions

By La Croix International -Attack on Christians in Egypt raises many questions Twenty-nine pilgrims on their way to the Saint Samuel Monastery in Upper...

- May 31, 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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Easter for Egypt’s Copts: mourning loved ones amid tight security

By WorldWatch MonitorChristians in Egypt celebrated Easter amid tight security and in a sombre mood. While worshippers gathered in both Alexandria and Tanta, in the...

- April 20, 2017 0

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Tally of Coptic families displaced from al-Arish

Nader Shukry - Watani InternationalEgyptian Ministry of Solidarity has reported that until today the number of families displaced from the North Sinai town of...

- March 15, 2017 0

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Coptes : «Ce qui était chez nous est devenu un enfer»

Par Eric de LAVARENE, à Ismaïlia (Egypte) - Libération -Depuis fin janvier, dans le Nord-Sinaï, des jihadistes de la branche locale de l’Etat islamique multiplient les exactions contre les chrétiens d’Egypte. Chaque...

- March 11, 2017 0

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Egypt’s Christians are being driven out – will the world notice?

By Matt Hadro - CNA/EWTN News -A spike in attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, spurred by a video threat from ISIS, has drawn...

- March 5, 2017 0

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Copts Flee Sinai Amid ISIS Campaign Of Murder, Threats

By: R. Green - MEMRIThe following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information,...

- February 28, 2017 0

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L’exode ou la mort : les chrétiens fuient le Nord-Sinaï par centaines

Isabelle Cousturie - AleteiaAprès la vague d'homicides annoncée par Daesh, les familles chrétiennes s’enfuient par centaines et confirment "la chasse aux chrétiens" lancée dans...

- February 28, 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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