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Archaeologists discover 7,000-year-old lost city in Egypt

By The IndependentEgypt has unearthed a more than 7,000-year-old city and cemetery dating back to its First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag,...

- November 25, 2016 0

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Egypt Civil Society Law Raises Concerns

By International Christian ConcernICC Note: A new law in Egypt is raising major concerns for non-governmental organizations who say the law will effectively eradicate civil...

- November 25, 2016 0

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President Sisi’s popularity is waning: the meaning and implications

Mohamed Ali Ibrahim – Egypt IndependentThe figures announced by the Baseera Center for Public Opinion Research on the popularity of the president are unfit...

- November 23, 2016 0

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Sisi: Trump has ‘deep understanding’ of our region

By WorldTribuneDonald Trump will be a strong leader for America and has a “deep understanding” of the Middle East, Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi...

- November 20, 2016 0

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Egypt’s Draft NGO Law Criticized as Repressive

By MOPEDMember of Parliament and chairman of the Egyptian Democratic Party Ehab Mansour announced on Wednesday in a press conference that he is...

- November 17, 2016 0

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Egypt’s law on building churches dashes Christian hopes for equality

By Heba Fahmy – Middle East EyeThe new law regulating the construction of churches is being called farcical and discriminatory by its criticsAfter 160...

- November 17, 2016 0

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Christian Children Kicked Out of School in Egypt for Refusing to Wear Hijab or Recite Koran

By Alix Culbertson – The Express (UK) -Christian children are being deprived of their education and being ousted from some schools for refusing to...

- November 17, 2016 0

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Trump to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terror Org

By The Clarion Project -Donald Trump will work to pass legislation designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, said Walid Phares, a foreign...

- November 16, 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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