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La comunitat copta, fora de joc a Egipte

By Marc Español - Directa - Era jornada de proves al camp de futbol del club egipci Petrojet, establert a la ciutat portuària de Suez....

- August 3, 2018 0

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What Does Football Have To Do With Religious Freedom?

By Ewelina U. Ochab - Forbes - What does football (soccer) have to do with religious freedom? Not much, one would have thought. However, Egypt...

- July 9, 2018 1

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Restrictions on the Copts of Egypt

Op-ed By Saba E. Demian -Copts refers to the Christian Orthodox Egyptians and members of this branch of Orthodox Christianity around the world. A lot...

- July 3, 2018 0

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En Egypte, les Coptes réclament le droit de jouer au foot

Victime de discriminations comme la plupart des footballeurs chrétiens, un jeune copte a créé son propre centre de formation. Reportage à Alexandrie, Ariane Lavrilleux...

- June 26, 2018 1

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إضطهاد الأقباط فى الاندية الرياضية المصرية

مجدى خليليعانى الأقباط فى مصر من تمييزا دينيا حكوميا ومجتمعيا واسعا وشاملا وممتدا ومنظما وعميقا فى كافة مناحى الحياة بما فى ذلك النشاط الرياضى...

- June 18, 2018 1

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Coptic Solidarity Urges FIFA to Investigate Discrimination Against Coptic Footballers in Egypt

By Coptic Solidarity - For Immediate Release(Washington, DC) June 18, 2018Yesterday, Coptic Solidarity submitted a report directly to FIFA officials as well as on their...

- June 18, 2018 1

CS Releases

Discrimination against Copts In Egyptian Sport Clubs

By Magdi Khalil for Coptic SolidarityJune 15, 2018This report has been sent to the FIFA officials directly, and submitted online via the new FIFA...

CopticLink - June 17, 2018 1

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“I was told to change my name to play professionally”: the plight of Egyptian Christians in football

By Maryse Godden - New Statesman - The impact of years of heightened religious tension between Copts and Muslims is evident even from Egypt’s...

- June 15, 2018 1

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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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