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Egypt: Copts face arrest after Facebook post leads Muslims to riot

By WorldWatch MonitorTwo Coptic Christians in a village in Minya, Upper Egypt are facing charges of inciting sectarian strife and insulting Islamic leaders, after...

- September 25, 2017 0

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A statement by the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Minya, Egypt, on Worship Rights

By Minya Diocese -Security refuses to open a church shut down in Kedwan in deference to sentiments of extremists!This is to comment on what...

- August 15, 2017 0

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Freedom of Religion or Belief ‘The Defining Issue of our Time’

Freedom of Religion or Belief 'The Defining Issue of our Time'By World Watch MonitorSeptember 16, 2016Over 100 parliamentarians from 60 countries met this week in...

- September 17, 2016 0

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Sectarianism Strikes Again in Minya, Police Arrest Coptic Man Hospitalized in ICU

Sectarianism Strikes Again in Minya, Police Arrest Coptic Man Hospitalized in ICUBy Mada MasrSeptember 16, 2016Sectarian violence erupted in the village of Ezbet Assem, in...

- September 16, 2016 0

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Sectarian violence in Minya village wounds two Copts

Sectarian violence in Minya village wounds two CoptsBy Al-AhramSeptember 13, 2016Two Christians were injured on Monday when violence erupted between Muslims and Christians in a...

- September 13, 2016 0

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How far does road to equality stretch for Egypt’s Christians?

How far does road to equality stretch for Egypt’s Christians?By Dina Ezzat, Ahram OnlineAugust 24, 2016“I was praying for health and comfort; for my...

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Authorities keep turning their back on threats facing Egypt’s Copts: Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination

Authorities keep turning their back on threats facing Egypt’s Copts: Egyptians Against Religious DiscriminationThe NGO staged a protest Saturday demanding that victims of sectarian...

- August 22, 2016 0

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Minya security directorate: there is no sectarianism, just ‘feuds between neighbours’

Minya security directorate: there is no sectarianism, just 'feuds between neighbours'By Aswat MasriyaAug 17, 2016The head of the Minya security directorate, Faisal Dwaidar, said...

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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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