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Algerian churches still fighting for freedom of worship

Algerian churches still fighting for freedom of worshipBy WorldWatch MonitorApril 29, 2016Churches in Algeria are facing intimidation and harassment, despite constitutional provisions guaranteeing freedom...

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Rubio Introduces Bill To Strengthen Promotion Of International Religious Freedom

For Immediate ReleaseThursday, April 28, 2016Contact: Olivia Perez-Cubas/ Kristen Morrell202-224-3041RUBIO INTRODUCES BILL TO STRENGTHEN PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOMWashington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco...

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Egypt’s Military Regime Grows More Brutal

Egypt’s Military Regime Grows More BrutalBy Doug Bandow -Cato InstituteApril 25, 2016The Middle East has long been hostile to Christians and other religious minorities....

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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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