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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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MORE CHURCHES HARASSED

By Youssef Sidhom - Watani -Either there is a deliberate intention to drag Egypt into a series of problems that concern churches and the...

- November 30, 2017 0

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Why Egypt’s New Church Law Has Some Activists Worried

Why Egypt's New CHurch Law Has Some Activists WorriedBy Abdelrahman Eyad - Al-MonitorEgyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a law on the construction and...

- October 6, 2016 0

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Reproducing the Status Quo: New Church Construction Law Consolidates Discriminatory State Policies and Confiscates Citizenship Rights of Future Generations

Reproducing the Status Quo: New Church Construction Law Consolidates Discriminatory State Policies and Confiscates Citizenship Rights of Future GenerationsEIPRAugust 31, 2016The Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

- September 6, 2016 0

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En Egypte, une loi sur la construction des églises crée le malaise chez les chrétiens

En Egypte, une loi sur la construction des églises crée le malaise chez les chrétiensLe Monde02.09.2016L’Egypte a voté pour la première fois, mardi 30...

- September 6, 2016 0

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Egypt’s Christians, Facing Hostility, Reach a ‘Breaking Point’

Egypt’s Christians, Facing Hostility, Reach a ‘Breaking Point’The New York TimesSeptember 2, 2016The Egyptian government has appointed Imam Mahmoud Gomaa, a Muslim cleric, to...

- September 6, 2016 0

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Locals Break into and Rob Church in Yemen

Locals Break into and Rob Church in YemenBy Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic SolidaritySeptember 2, 2016On Friday August 26, unidentified and armed militants...

- September 3, 2016 0

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New Law on Church Construction Prompts Criticism

New Law on Church Construction Prompts CriticismBy POMEDOn Tuesday, Egypt's parliament approved a long-awaited change to the law governing the construction and renovation of...

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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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