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American, Egyptian Politicians Condemn Sadat’s Expulsion from Parliament

By - POMEDU.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) issued a statement yesterday regarding the dismissal of MP Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat from Parliament. McCain stated that al-Sadat’s...

- March 3, 2017 0

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Jihadis Target Copts, Triggering Fears of Broader Assaults Against Religious Minority

By: Heba Saleh – Financial Times -Issaf Sameh, 10, tapped the side of his head and then his forehead to indicate where the bullets...

- March 1, 2017 0

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د. خالد منتصر ـ تكرّر فى الإعلام سؤال استنكارى، وهو: هل يقتل المسيحى وحده فى سيناء؟، الإجابة يقتل الجندى المسلم والجندى المسيحى هناك، لا تفرقة،...

- February 27, 2017 0

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Targeted by ISIS, Egyptian Christians Flee Violence

By Declan Walsh, Nour Youssef - New York Times -Dozens of Egyptian Christian families fled their homes in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Friday,...

- February 25, 2017 1

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Copts exit al-Arish

By Nader Shukry - Watani InternationalIn the wake of the killing of six Copts throughout the last three weeks in the North Sinai town...

- February 24, 2017 0

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Christian killed in Sinai, sixth in a month: Egypt officials

By Egypt IndependentEgyptian security officials say suspected Islamic militants gunned down a Coptic Christian inside his home in northern Sinai, the sixth such killing in...

- February 24, 2017 0

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Egyptian police accused of ‘complicity and apathy’ in case of kidnapped Christian woman

By World Watch MonitorThe family of an 18-year-old Egyptian Christian woman, missing since 26 January, have accused the police of complicity in her kidnapping...

- February 23, 2017 0

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ISIS Egypt Is Openly Betting On Bigotry As A Winning Strategy

By: Alberto M. Fernandez - MEMRIThe propaganda of the Islamic State is entering an interesting new phase, as the "physical" Caliphate comes under unprecedented...

- February 22, 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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