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The Predicament of Egypt’s Copts

By Michael Wahid Hanna -The December 11th bombing of the St. Paul and St. Peter Church in Cairo, which abuts the seat of the...

- December 15, 2016 1

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Coptic Christians in Egypt Mourn after Worst Church Bombing in Country’s History

By Morning Star News -Government claims suicide bomber was responsible.As government investigators sifted through the scene of Egypt’s worst bombing attack against Christians in...

- December 14, 2016 0

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One step forward, two steps back – The troubled lives of Egypt’s Coptic Christians

By Erasmus - The Economist -NO GROUP immediately claimed responsibility for a bomb that ripped through a chapel in Egypt’s capital on December 11th,...

- December 14, 2016 0

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Egypt’s Christians – Church of Martyrs

By Samuel Tadros -Sunday’s attack is neither the first nor the last that the Coptic Church will endure in Egypt.St. Peter and St. Paul’s...

- December 14, 2016 0

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Christian Worship Is “Worse than Murder and Bloodshed” Says Egyptian Cleric

By Raymond Ibrahim - Special to Coptic Solidarity -For an idea of why Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches are constantly under attack—most recently...

- December 14, 2016 0

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Coptic Solidarity Strongly Condemns Brutal Bombing of St. Peter’s Church in Cairo

For Immediate ReleaseWASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the brutal attack of December 11 on St. Peter and...

- December 12, 2016 0

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Egypt’s Copts mourn after ‘deadliest attack in recent memory’

By WorldWatch Monitor -Egypt’s Christian community is in mourning following what the BBC has referred to as the “deadliest attack on the Coptic community in...

- December 12, 2016 0

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No decrease in attacks on Egypt’s Copts

By Paul Keenan - The Irish Catholic The latest in a litany of ongoing attacks on the Coptic community in Egypt took place towards the...

- December 9, 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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