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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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Conciliation, Suspended Sentences For Copts And Muslims In Beni Sweif Village

By Girgis Waheeb - Watani - The State Security Court has handed the nine Copts and 11 Muslims from the village of Meinin, who...

- May 15, 2018 1

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Egyptian mob celebrates blocking application for new church

By WorldWatch MonitorMob rule has stopped hundreds of Christians in a village in Upper Egypt building their first church, World Watch Monitor has learned...

- March 26, 2018 0

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Egypt’s Copts decry recent spate of church closings

By Shahira Amin - Al-MonitorWhen a long-awaited law on building and restoring churches went into effect in Egypt in September 2016, several Christian members...

- November 16, 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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Minya Copts Respond to Church Closings

By POMEDCoptic Christians have called on security forces to increase anti-discrimination efforts after a number of attacks have led to the closing of Coptic churches...

- November 3, 2017 0

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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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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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