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Egypt ripped at Senate foreign aid hearing

By Pecquet -Congress Pulse, Al MonitorA bipartisan panel of experts ripped Egypt as a floundering authoritarian state April 25 and urged Congress to rethink...

- April 26, 2017 0

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Ancient Sinai monastery targeted by Islamic militants in Egypt a week after Coptic church bombings

By James Macintyre - Christian TodayIslamist gunmen attacked security forces near St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's south Sinai yesterday, killing at least one police...

- April 20, 2017 0

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Easter for Egypt’s Copts: mourning loved ones amid tight security

By WorldWatch MonitorChristians in Egypt celebrated Easter amid tight security and in a sombre mood. While worshippers gathered in both Alexandria and Tanta, in the...

- April 20, 2017 0

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Coptic Christians’ Endless Struggle for Survival in Egypt

By Samuel Tadros - National Review -The Copts have been persecuted for thousands of years. ISIS’s brutal Palm Sunday bombing in Alexandria is just the...

- April 15, 2017 0

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The uncountable cost of Egypt’s Palm Sunday attacks

By World Watch MonitorAs Egyptian society slowly recovers from the shock of the twin suicide bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday,...

- April 14, 2017 0

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Bishop says state of emergency not enough to protect Egypt’s Copts

By Amina Ismail - Reuters ـThe Egyptian government needs to do more to protect the country's Coptic Christians from a "wave of persecution" following...

- April 14, 2017 0

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Blood on the Palms: Persecution In The Coptic DNA

By Mina Abdelmalak - Philos ProjectAnother bloody attack on the Coptic Christian community. Another day of Coptic bloodshed to be marked in the Coptic...

- April 14, 2017 0

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Islamic Fellow Travelers On The Road To Bigotry And Mass Murder

By: Alberto M. Fernandez - MEMRI -The spectacular acts of slaughter and mayhem perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS) and its unabashed, prolific justification...

- April 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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