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Egyptian Coptic Christians Hospitalized After Muslim Mob Attacks

By La Croix (via AINA) - Muslims angered by the presence of a church in a Coptic Christian diocese in Egypt attacked the homes of...

- September 5, 2018 0

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Egyptian Authorities Accused of Negligence in Face of Rising Anti-Christian Violence

By Sondos Asem - Middle East Eye - A Coptic bishop has accused police of ignoring calls to protect Christians ahead of anticipated violence in a...

- September 4, 2018 0

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Egypt: Mob attacks prevent Coptic church’s recognition for ‘security’ reasons

By WorldWatch Monitor - A Coptic community in Egypt’s Minya governorate, whose church was closed in July following protests by local Muslims, continues to be...

- August 31, 2018 0

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Egypt: Mob attack encouraged by police promise ‘No church will be allowed here’

By WorldWatch MonitorA mob attacked a church in Minya, Egypt, on 13 July protesting against its legalisation and received a police officer’s approval, World Watch Monitor...

- July 18, 2018 0

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Copts persuaded to drop charges against mob who attacked their church

By World Watch Monitor - Copts in a village near the Egyptian city of Alexandria have been persuaded to waive the charges against an extremist...

- May 30, 2018 0

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Church Under Legalisation Attacked In Beheira

By Watani - A church in the village of al-Shuqaf in Housh Eissa in the west Delta province of Beheira was attacked by a mob...

- May 29, 2018 1

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Disputed status of Beni Suef church sparks sectarian violence

By Hadeer El-Mahdawy - Mada Masr -The homes of several Coptic Christians in the Beni Suef village of Beni Menin were set ablaze by...

- April 18, 2018 0

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Church in Beni Sweif Village Attacked by Muslim Hardliners

By Girgis Waheeb - WataniThe church of the Holy Virgin and Pope Kyrillos VI in the village of Meimin in al-Fashn, Beni sweif, some...

- April 16, 2018 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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