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Copt’s fields torched after rumours he was turning his house into a church

By WorldWatch Monitor -A Coptic Christian from Beni Suef governorate in Egypt saw his wheat fields set on fire, just four days after he...

- June 26, 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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Egyptian Copts face Muslim mobs protesting against legalization of churches

By World Watch Monitor - The closure of a church in Upper Egypt that sought legalisation has been condemned as illegal by the congregation’s lawyer, and charges made...

- May 10, 2018 0

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Defying the Law

By - Youssef Sidhom - Watani -Police closes down churches awaiting legalisationThe Law for Building and Restoring Churches went into force in September 2016....

- November 11, 2017 1

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Egypt: Copts worship in streets after clashes over church permit

By WorldWatch Monitor -Tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians in a village in Upper Egypt have reportedly softened following clashes at the weekend.Copts in...

- August 23, 2017 0

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Copts in Kom El-Loufy still have no church in their village, and they’re not alone

By WorldWatch MonitorThe more than 1,600 Copts in the village of Kom El-Loufy in Minya, Upper Egypt are still waiting for a new church...

- July 31, 2017 0

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Sohag Copts attacked on rumor of opening church

By Nader Shukry – WataniFanatic Muslims in the village of al-Naghameesh in Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, attacked the Copts in the village...

- November 26, 2016 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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