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Copts in Egyptian history textbooks (Part 2): Issues today and hidden gems from earlier textbooks

By Ehaab Abdou - MadaMasr -(Part 1) -Before delving into a wider analysis of Egypt’s high school history textbooks, it is important to acknowledge...

- October 12, 2017 0

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Copts in Egyptian history textbooks since 1890 (Part 1): Are we asking the right questions?

By Ehaab Abdou - Mada MasrOver the past few years, we’ve been hearing recurring demands for the inclusion of Coptic history in textbooks, echoed...

- September 28, 2017 0

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Egypt: ex-kidnapper admits ‘they get paid for every Coptic Christian girl they bring in’

By World Watch Monitor“I remember a Coptic Christian girl from a rich, well-known family in Minya. She was kidnapped by five Muslim men. They...

- September 14, 2017 0

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A letter to his Excellency, President el-Sisi, voicing disappointment

By Sameh Sabri - Ahram Canada-We are disappointed because you appointed an extremist man of dark ideas, Dr. Mohammad Othman el-Khosht, a president of...

- August 31, 2017 0

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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...

- August 19, 2017 0

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Video Highlights From Coptic Solidarity’s 8th Annual Conference

View video highlights from Coptic Solidarity's 8th Annual Policy Day. This event was hosted on June 15, 2017, at the U.S. House Visitor Center. The...

- August 7, 2017 0

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Copts and Egypt’s national game: We’ll call you back later

By Mai Shams El-Din - Mada Masr -The absence of Christian players at the professional level can be traced to discrimination that begins young.Football...

- July 21, 2017 0

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Islamic Fellow Travelers On The Road To Bigotry And Mass Murder

By: Alberto M. Fernandez - MEMRI -The spectacular acts of slaughter and mayhem perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS) and its unabashed, prolific justification...

- April 13, 2017 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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