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Christians in Egypt: The invisible minority

Christians in Egypt: The invisible minorityBy Nash Naam -Effingham Daily NewsSeptember 2, 2016The magnificent Rio Olympic games ended last week. Some of the shiniest moments...

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Reproducing the Status Quo: New Church Construction Law Consolidates Discriminatory State Policies and Confiscates Citizenship Rights of Future Generations

Reproducing the Status Quo: New Church Construction Law Consolidates Discriminatory State Policies and Confiscates Citizenship Rights of Future GenerationsEIPRAugust 31, 2016The Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

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En Egypte, une loi sur la construction des églises crée le malaise chez les chrétiens

En Egypte, une loi sur la construction des églises crée le malaise chez les chrétiensLe Monde02.09.2016L’Egypte a voté pour la première fois, mardi 30...

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Egypt’s Christians, Facing Hostility, Reach a ‘Breaking Point’

Egypt’s Christians, Facing Hostility, Reach a ‘Breaking Point’The New York TimesSeptember 2, 2016The Egyptian government has appointed Imam Mahmoud Gomaa, a Muslim cleric, to...

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Locals Break into and Rob Church in Yemen

Locals Break into and Rob Church in YemenBy Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic SolidaritySeptember 2, 2016On Friday August 26, unidentified and armed militants...

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New Law on Church Construction Prompts Criticism

New Law on Church Construction Prompts CriticismBy POMEDOn Tuesday, Egypt's parliament approved a long-awaited change to the law governing the construction and renovation of...

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Egypt: Lawmakers fear that new church law will discriminate against Christians

Egypt: Lawmakers fear that new church law will discriminate against ChristiansBy Carey Lodge, Christian TodayAugust 31, 2016Egypt has passed a law on building and...

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Egyptian parliament approves long-awaited church building law

Egyptian parliament approves long-awaited church building lawBy Ahmed Aboulenein and Mohamed AbdellahAugust 30, 2016Egypt's parliament approved on Tuesday a long-awaited law that governs building and...

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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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