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Egyptian Coptic Christians Hospitalized After Muslim Mob Attacks

By La Croix (via AINA) - Muslims angered by the presence of a church in a Coptic Christian diocese in Egypt attacked the homes of...

- September 5, 2018 0

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Egyptian Authorities Accused of Negligence in Face of Rising Anti-Christian Violence

By Sondos Asem - Middle East Eye - A Coptic bishop has accused police of ignoring calls to protect Christians ahead of anticipated violence in a...

- September 4, 2018 0

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Egypt: Copts attacked after Facebook post showing ‘contempt of Islam’

By WorldWatch Monitor - An attack by a Muslim mob on Copts in a village in the Egyptian governorate of Minya on Monday (9 July)...

- July 11, 2018 0

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Sectarian borders

By Heba Afify - Mada MasrOf the few streets that lie perpendicular to each other in Ezbet al-Forn in Upper Egypt’s Minya Governorate, your...

- January 8, 2018 0

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Church closures in Egypt: ‘We were silent when it was one, now it’s four’

By Sonia Farid - Al Arabiya - English“We said nothing when one church was closed, so it got worse and a second, then a...

- November 21, 2017 0

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Egypt’s Copts decry recent spate of church closings

By Shahira Amin - Al-MonitorWhen a long-awaited law on building and restoring churches went into effect in Egypt in September 2016, several Christian members...

- November 16, 2017 0

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Christians in Egypt Pelted With Rocks in Attack on Town – Four Churches Forced to Shut

By Joey Millar - The Express UK (via AINA) -The coordinated attacks took place in the Egyptian region of Minya, south of Cairo, where...

- November 6, 2017 1

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Minya Copts Respond to Church Closings

By POMEDCoptic Christians have called on security forces to increase anti-discrimination efforts after a number of attacks have led to the closing of Coptic churches...

- November 3, 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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