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Egypt: Christians Still Denied Churches While Government Opens 10 Mosques Every Week

By Raymond Ibrahim - Special to Coptic SolidarityEgyptian authorities and politicians recently held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on...

- December 8, 2016 0

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Before the Law for Building Churches: The Copts’ constitutional right to pray

By Youssef Sidhom – WataniI have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent...

- December 5, 2016 0

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“Build a church? Out of question!”

By Nader Shukry – WataniFor Copts, the Law for Building and Restoring Churches they had so long aspired for was passed last August. So...

- November 30, 2016 0

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Potentially Deadly Church Attack Thwarted in Egypt

By Raymond Ibrahim: Special for Coptic SolidarityA man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers...

- November 29, 2016 0

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In post-Arab Spring Egypt, Muslim attacks on Christians are rising

By Sudarsan Raghavan - The IndependentA ‘disturbing wave of radicalism’ has deepened sectarian tensions, pitting neighbour against neighbourThe Christian and Muslim villagers grew up together,...

- November 29, 2016 0

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Egypt’s law on building churches dashes Christian hopes for equality

By Heba Fahmy – Middle East EyeThe new law regulating the construction of churches is being called farcical and discriminatory by its criticsAfter 160...

- November 17, 2016 0

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Christian Children Kicked Out of School in Egypt for Refusing to Wear Hijab or Recite Koran

By Alix Culbertson – The Express (UK) -Christian children are being deprived of their education and being ousted from some schools for refusing to...

- November 17, 2016 0

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Christian children ‘singled out for bullying’ in Egyptian classrooms

By WorldWatch MonitorWhen 12-year-old Rahma Salem refused to wear a hijab to school in the Delta in northern Egypt, teachers ordered her to leave...

- November 1, 2016 1

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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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