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Kidnapping fears for missing Coptic newlywed

By World Watch Monitor - A Coptic Christian woman who had been married for two weeks went missing from her school last Wednesday, sparking fears...

- May 9, 2018 0

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Egypt’s disappearing Coptic women and girls

By World Watch Monitor - At least seven Coptic Christian women and girls disappeared in Egypt last month, in what is becoming a recurring phenomenon.In each case,...

- May 1, 2018 2

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Pakistani Christian says daughter, 12, abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry

By WorldWatch MonitorA 12-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who disappeared in November, was abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry her abductor, according to...

- February 14, 2018 0

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Egypt: ex-kidnapper admits ‘they get paid for every Coptic Christian girl they bring in’

By World Watch Monitor“I remember a Coptic Christian girl from a rich, well-known family in Minya. She was kidnapped by five Muslim men. They...

- September 14, 2017 0

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Young Christian Woman Said To Be Kidnapped outside Cairo, Egypt

By Morning Star NewsThird apparent abduction in area since accidental shooting of Muslim.A young Coptic woman in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt remains missing...

- June 13, 2017 0

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UPDATE: Missing Egyptian woman, 18, given new Muslim identity by security services

By WorldWatch MonitorUPDATE (8 March)The brother of 18-year-old Hanan Girgis, an Egyptian Christian woman missing since 26 January, says he has been told she...

- March 8, 2017 0

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Egyptian police accused of ‘complicity and apathy’ in case of kidnapped Christian woman

By World Watch MonitorThe family of an 18-year-old Egyptian Christian woman, missing since 26 January, have accused the police of complicity in her kidnapping...

- February 23, 2017 0

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Wave of Kidnappings Rock Upper Egypt’s Christian Community – Part 6

Wave of Kidnappings Rock Upper Egypt's Christian Community - Part 6By Sandra Elliot, International Christian ConcernJuly 12, 2016Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - In...

- July 13, 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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