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MECHRIC Condemns Ongoing Genocide of Christians – From Middle East to Europe

MECHRIC Condemns Ongoing Genocide of Christians - From Middle East to EuropeJuly 6, 2016WASHINGTON DC - On June 27th, the Christian town of Al Qaa...

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Nun was killed in crossfire of personal feud: Egypt’s interior ministry

Nun was killed in crossfire of personal feud: Egypt’s interior ministryAhram OnlineJuly 6, 2016The nun who was killed on Tuesday on the Cairo-Alexandria road...

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President Sisi’s Promise of Religious Revolution Remains Unfulfilled

President Sisi’s Promise of Religious Revolution Remains UnfulfilledShahira Amin, Egyptian StreetsJuly 5, 2016A photo released by Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows...

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Egypt’s Christians already have a Savior, they need a friend

Egypt’s Christians already have a Savior, they need a friendJohn L. Allen Jr., CRUXJuly 3, 2016Few would suggest that Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is...

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Wave of Kidnappings Rock Upper Egypt’s Christian Community – Part 5

Wave of Kidnappings Rock Upper Egypt's Christian Community - Part 5By Sandra Elliot - International Christian ConcernJune 30, 2016In the recent wave of kidnappings...

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ISIS Says it Killed Coptic Christian Priest in Egypt For ‘Fighting Islam’

ISIS Says it Killed Coptic Christian Priest in Egypt For ‘Fighting Islam’By Egyptian StreetsA snapshot from a video released on Twitter by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis...

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3 years on: Copts and the state

3 years on: Copts and the stateBy: Mai Shams El-Din, Mada MasrJune 29, 2016 June 4, 2013: Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church...

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8 men released on bail following Muslim mob attack on Christians in Upper Egypt

8 men released on bail following Muslim mob attack on Christians in Upper EgyptAhram OnlineJune 28, 2016In late May, Muslim villagers set ablaze a...

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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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