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“I was told to change my name to play professionally”: the plight of Egyptian Christians in football

By Maryse Godden - New Statesman - The impact of years of heightened religious tension between Copts and Muslims is evident even from Egypt’s...

- June 15, 2018 1

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The Egyptian Cause and the Coptic Cause

By Magdi Khalil -In order to make matters well -defined and clear and to avoid confusion, we state that there is an Egyptian cause...

- June 5, 2018 1

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What Egypt’s racist campaign against Nubians reveals about Sissi’s regime

By Amy Austin Holmes - The Washington Post - Amy Austin Holmes is an associate professor at the American University in Cairo and is a...

- April 23, 2018 1

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44 Simple Questions to the Egyptian Authorities Regarding the Situation of the Copts

By Coptic Solidarity -The introduction of H RES 673 () seems to have flustered the Egyptian government and sent them scrambling to issue a...

- January 23, 2018 0

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Egypt’s Rights groups: No alternative but to repeal new association law, revision pointless

By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies -Marking one year since the Egyptian Parliament’s November 2016 approval of Law 70/2017 regulating civic associations, issued...

- November 30, 2017 0

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Egyptian TV Host Says Jihadi Attacks On Churches Are ‘OK,’ But Not On Mosques

By Joshua Gill - The Daily CallerAn Egyptian TV host went off script Friday, saying that it was justifiable for jihadis to attack churches,...

- November 29, 2017 0

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We Need to Be Frank About Religious Discrimination in Egypt and Its Dangers

By Dr. Fouad Abdel Moneim Riad(*) –Numerous prominent figures in the media began revealing details of what Copts are suffering, particularly those in Egypt’s...

- November 27, 2017 1

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TV Presenter, Agan, Makes ‘Inappropriate Remark’ Against Copts

By Michael Girgis - WataniRasha Magdy, presenter and hostess of the TV talkshow ++Studio al-Balad++ aired on Sada al-Balad satellite TV channel, hosted MP...

- November 27, 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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