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From Egypt: A list of recently reported assaults on Coptic Christians

By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah - Canada Free Press - On August 22, in the village of Al Zenika located in the Province of Luxor (Upper...

- October 8, 2018 0

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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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Egyptian Christians Report Rising Persecution

By International Christian Concern -International Christian Concern (ICC) has documented a sharp escalation of attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt within the last two...

- September 13, 2018 0

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Closed churches force Copts to hold funerals in the streets

By WorldWatch Monitor - Coptic Christians in various parts of Egypt have been left with no choice but to hold funeral services in the streets...

- September 12, 2018 0

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Coptic Solidarity Asserts Token Coptic Governor Appointments Do Not Comprise Equality

For Immediate Release(Washington, DC) September 11, 2018The appointment of two Coptic governors in Egypt has been lauded as a major improvement for Copts and...

- September 11, 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: 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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