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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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Church closures in Egypt: ‘We were silent when it was one, now it’s four’

By Sonia Farid - Al Arabiya - English“We said nothing when one church was closed, so it got worse and a second, then a...

- November 21, 2017 0

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Christians in Egypt Pelted With Rocks in Attack on Town – Four Churches Forced to Shut

By Joey Millar - The Express UK (via AINA) -The coordinated attacks took place in the Egyptian region of Minya, south of Cairo, where...

- November 6, 2017 1

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Anba Macarius of Minya: Is Prayer a Crime?

By Nader Shukry - WataniAnba Macarius, Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Minya, has issued a statement that tackled the recent closure of churches in Minya...

- October 30, 2017 0

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A statement by the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Minya, Egypt, on Worship Rights

By Minya Diocese -Security refuses to open a church shut down in Kedwan in deference to sentiments of extremists!This is to comment on what...

- August 15, 2017 0

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Potentially Deadly Church Attack Thwarted in Egypt

By Raymond Ibrahim: Special for Coptic SolidarityA man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers...

- November 29, 2016 0

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In post-Arab Spring Egypt, Muslim attacks on Christians are rising

By Sudarsan Raghavan - The IndependentA ‘disturbing wave of radicalism’ has deepened sectarian tensions, pitting neighbour against neighbourThe Christian and Muslim villagers grew up together,...

- November 29, 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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