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Violence against Copts: Ten Defining Aspects

Violence against Copts in Egypt is a serious phenomenon expressed through an extended series of barbaric attacks on a peaceful minority. The beginning of...

- October 9, 2018 0

Egyptian in Justice

Advocating for the Voiceless

By Lindsay Griffin - I get a lot of blank stares when asked what I do. For starters, many Americans have never heard of Copts....

- September 13, 2018 0

Egyptian in Justice

Egyptian Christians Report Rising Persecution

By International Christian Concern -International Christian Concern (ICC) has documented a sharp escalation of attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt within the last two...

- September 13, 2018 0

Egyptian in Justice

Closed churches force Copts to hold funerals in the streets

By WorldWatch Monitor - Coptic Christians in various parts of Egypt have been left with no choice but to hold funeral services in the streets...

- September 12, 2018 0

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Coptic Solidarity Asserts Token Coptic Governor Appointments Do Not Comprise Equality

For Immediate Release(Washington, DC) September 11, 2018The appointment of two Coptic governors in Egypt has been lauded as a major improvement for Copts and...

- September 11, 2018 0

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Egyptian Coptic Christians Hospitalized After Muslim Mob Attacks

By La Croix (via AINA) - Muslims angered by the presence of a church in a Coptic Christian diocese in Egypt attacked the homes of...

- September 5, 2018 0

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La comunitat copta, fora de joc a Egipte

By Marc Español - Directa - Era jornada de proves al camp de futbol del club egipci Petrojet, establert a la ciutat portuària de Suez....

- August 3, 2018 0

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Egypt’s ‘Hippocratic Oath’ Could Force Christian Doctors to Unintentionally Become Muslim

By Raymond Ibrahim - PJ Media - “Egypt’s version of the Hippocratic Oath, which all of the nation’s doctors -- both Muslim and Christian --...

- July 20, 2018 1

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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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