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The Promised Law: Christians Wait for Egypt to Authorize New Churches

The Promised Law: Christians Wait for Egypt to Authorize New ChurchesBy Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity TodayAug 16, 2016Egypt is scheduled to vote as early...

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Egypt Christians Stage Rare Cairo Protest, Demanding Rights

Egypt Christians Stage Rare Cairo Protest, Demanding RightsBy Brian Rohan, Associated Press CairoAug 13, 2016Egyptian Christians staged a rare protest in downtown Cairo on...

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Copt priests in Gulf meet to discuss challenges

Copt priests in Gulf meet to discuss challengesBy World Watch MonitorAugust 13, 2016Egyptian priests serving in the Arab Gulf region have held their first...

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We Are Living in Terror of Muslim Mobs, Say Copts

We Are Living in Terror of Muslim Mobs, Say CoptsBy Bel Trew, The Sunday Times (UK)August 14, 2016Dozens of Muslim men armed with Kalashnikovs,...

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The Coptic Church’s Faustian bargain

The Coptic Church’s Faustian bargainBy Wael EskandarAugust 9, 2016 It didn’t take long for the regime to crack down on Islamist and secular opposition after...

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State Dept. Highlights Coptic Violence

State Dept. Highlights Coptic Violence By POMEDBy POMEDAugust 11, 2016The State Department released its latest Report on International Religious Freedom on Wednesday, which outlines...

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Briefing on the Release of the 2015 Annual Report on International Freedom (IRF)

Briefing on the Release of the 2015 Annual Report on International Freedom (IRF)Special Briefing - David N. Saperstein, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious FreedomAugust 10, 2016Full Annual...

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وثائقي قصير يرصد “التوتر الطائفي” في محافظة المنيا في مصر

وثائقي قصير يرصد "التوتر الطائفي" في محافظة المنيا في مصر https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KyiC0PzVEI

- August 10, 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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