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Armed Muslim Mob Destroys Christian Homes over church building

By Katie Mansfield – The Express UK –In an attack just days before ISIS killed 25 people in the Cairo cathedral bombing, a Muslim...

- December 15, 2016 0

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Who are the Copts? Why are they being attacked?

By Dr. Jim Denison - Denison Forum“There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead...

- December 13, 2016 1

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Under threat from terrorism, Coptic culture remains eternally powerful

By Jonathan Jones - The Guardian -The Coptic church is Egypt’s oldest living religion. Its unique artistic tradition stretches right back into antiquity and...

- December 13, 2016 1

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Bomb at Egypt’s Main Coptic Christian Cathedral Compound Kills Dozens

By Wall Street Journal -A bomb exploded at Cairo’s main Coptic Christian cathedral compound on Sunday morning, killing at least 25 people and wounding...

- December 11, 2016 0

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Blast in Cairo church kills 27, injures 65

By Watani -As Sunday Mass drew close to its end before 11am in Boutrossiya church (Church of St Peter and St Paul) in Abbassiya,...

- December 11, 2016 0

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Bombing at Egypt’s Main Coptic Christian Cathedral Kills 25

By The Associated Press/NYT -A bombing at a chapel adjacent to Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 25 people and wounded another 49 during...

- December 11, 2016 0

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No decrease in attacks on Egypt’s Copts

By Paul Keenan - The Irish Catholic The latest in a litany of ongoing attacks on the Coptic community in Egypt took place towards the...

- December 9, 2016 0

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Sohag Copts: All We Want Is to Pray

By Nader Shukry – WataniEfforts to persuade the Muslim villagers of al-Naghameesh in Dar-as-Salam, Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, to allow the village...

- December 7, 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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