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Palm Sunday Bombing Underscores Depth of Egypt’s Anti-Christian Bigotry

By John Rossomando - IPT NewsSuicide bombings of two Coptic churches in Egypt Sunday by ISIS terrorists should not be viewed in isolation. The...

- April 13, 2017 0

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What Palm Sunday Means to Egypt’s Copts

By Samuel Tadros - The Atlantic -Christianity was born in pain in the country. An attack on a holy day is another bloody symbol of...

- April 12, 2017 0

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‘They called my husband an infidel and killed him”

By Bel Trew - The Times (UK)Two Isis fighters wielding guns approached their target. Bahgat Zakhar, 58, was an Egyptian Copt on a “kill...

- April 3, 2017 0

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Despite setbacks for Islamic State, Egypt’s Coptic Christians remain at risk

By Sean Savage - JNS -As the Islamic State terror group faces setbacks in Syria and Iraq, its affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has...

- March 17, 2017 0

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Egypt Defends Its Human Rights Record at UN Body

By - POMEDAccording to a Ministry statement , Shoukry also emphasized that the UNHRC must respect cultural diversity in discussing human rights and cannot...

- March 3, 2017 0

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Coptic exodus from al-Arish

By Watani InternationalThe plight of the Copts in the North Sinai town of al-Arish is irking Egypt in its entirety. Arish Copts have been...

- March 3, 2017 1

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Merkel under fire for downplaying concerns about Egyptian rights

By - ReutersA Christian cleric on Thursday criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel for kowtowing to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and downplaying human rights concerns...

- March 3, 2017 0

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Egyptian Copt widow: ‘Gunmen who killed my husband and son then ticked them off their IS hit-list’

By World Watch MonitorA Coptic Christian mother in North Sinai who saw her son and husband killed in front of her in their home...

- March 3, 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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