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Decimated Muslim Brotherhood Still Inspires Fear. Its Members Wonder Why.

By Patrick Kingsley, The New York TimesFor Magdy Shalash, an Egyptian exile living here in Istanbul, Turkey, there is a certain irony to a...

- July 17, 2017 0

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Bahey eldin Hassan meets UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and calls on the UN to take the lead in rebuilding failing Arab states and establish...

Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres met with the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Bahey eldin Hassan...

- July 17, 2017 0

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Churches Cancel Summer Activities on Terrorist Threats

By Watani -Churches in Egypt have cancelled their summer activities, mainly trips to monasteries or holy sites, spiritual retreats or conventions, and in many...

- July 14, 2017 0

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U.S. House Appropriations Draft Bill Calls for $1.45 billion for Egypt Aid

By POMED -The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs released its Fiscal Year 2018 draft appropriations bill...

- July 14, 2017 0

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Terrorist threat forces Egyptian Christians to cancel summer activities

By Jayson Casper - World Watch MonitorThe churches of Egypt are temporarily shutting down their summer activities.“I asked all our churches and conference centres...

- July 14, 2017 0

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Coptic martyrdom in the age of the security state

By Mariam Ibrahim - Mada Masr -Is a religious narrative that frames the killing of Copts as God's will at odds with mounting resistance...

- July 13, 2017 0

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Murder of fifth Copt in six weeks creating ‘state of fear and terror’ among Egypt’s Christians

By World Watch MonitorA fifth Copt has been murdered in Egypt in six weeks, aggravating fears among Christians that Islamist extremists are targeting them...

- July 13, 2017 0

Briefing Papers

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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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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