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Egypt’s Ban on Church Trips Sends Dangerous Message

By: Ishak Ibrahim - The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy ـCoptic monasteries and moulids, the celebrations of saints that bring hundreds of thousands...

- September 2, 2017 0

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Egyptian Government’s Claims of Improved Situation for Copts Refuted by Ongoing Discrimination

By PRNeswire -Washington, DC, August 19, 2017-Both the Egyptian government and some church leaders are claiming that the Copts’ situation has improved under President...

- August 19, 2017 0

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Copts and Egypt’s national game: We’ll call you back later

By Mai Shams El-Din - Mada Masr -The absence of Christian players at the professional level can be traced to discrimination that begins young.Football...

- July 21, 2017 0

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The Copts in Sisi’s Egypt: Between rhetoric and reality

By Dr. George Gurguis, MD -The decent into chaos that Egypt was heading for under the Muslim Brotherhood rule and President Morsi was averted...

- July 13, 2017 0

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Case of Copt tortured to death: witnesses threatened

By Nader Shukry - WataniThe lawyers who represent the family of the Copt Magdy Makeen, 54, who died of torture in the police station...

- January 31, 2017 0

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To My Muslim Egyptian Friends, I Say I am puzzled

An open letter By: Lofty Basta, MDMy dears, I have to be frank with you. The massacre of 25 Copts and injuring of more...

- January 30, 2017 0

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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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Potentially Deadly Church Attack Thwarted in Egypt

By Raymond Ibrahim: Special for Coptic SolidarityA man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers...

- November 29, 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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