Tag:Coptic persecution

Coptic Solidarity Analysis and Recommendations on Newly Released Egypt Chapter of State Department International Religious Freedom Report

August 20, 2017On August 15, 2017, the State Department issued its annual report on International Religious Freedom, which documents the state of religious freedom...

Egyptian Government’s Claims of Improved Situation for Copts Refuted by Ongoing Discrimination

By PRNeswire -Washington, DC, August 19, 2017-Both the Egyptian government and some church leaders are claiming that the Copts’ situation has improved under President...

Egypt’s Copts Say They’re Tired of Being ‘Martyrs’ As Deadly Attacks Continue

By Jay Gotera - The Christian Post -The streams of blood from defenseless Copts massacred by Islamist extremists continue to drench Egypt—with no end...

Terrorist threat forces Egyptian Christians to cancel summer activities

By Jayson Casper - World Watch MonitorThe churches of Egypt are temporarily shutting down their summer activities.“I asked all our churches and conference centres...

Coptic martyrdom in the age of the security state

By Mariam Ibrahim - Mada Masr -Is a religious narrative that frames the killing of Copts as God's will at odds with mounting resistance...

Murder of fifth Copt in six weeks creating ‘state of fear and terror’ among Egypt’s Christians

By World Watch MonitorA fifth Copt has been murdered in Egypt in six weeks, aggravating fears among Christians that Islamist extremists are targeting them...

The Copts in Sisi’s Egypt: Between rhetoric and reality

By Dr. George Gurguis, MD -The decent into chaos that Egypt was heading for under the Muslim Brotherhood rule and President Morsi was averted...

Coptic Christians Targeted By ISIS Say Egyptian Government Not Helping

By Stoyan Zaimov - Christian Post (via AINA) -Coptic Christian families from North Sinai in Egypt, who have been displaced following numerous attacks by...