Tag:Modern Coptic Martyrs

Anger and desperation accompany Copts from their homes in Arish to Ismailia

By Karoline Kamel - Mada Masr -The fate of Sinai’s Coptic Christians is held between a church that closed its doors to them and...

- February 27, 2017 0

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Egypt’s Christians flee terror in north Sinai security void

By Brian Rohan - Associated Press -After Islamic militants barged into his uncle's house, shot him and his son dead, then looted the place...

- February 27, 2017 0

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Christians flee Sinai Peninsula in fear of Egypt’s Islamic State affiliate

By Sudarsan Raghavan - The Washington PostCAIRO — Hundreds of Christians are fleeing Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula as the Islamic State affiliate there has...

- February 24, 2017 0

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Copts exit al-Arish

By Nader Shukry - Watani InternationalIn the wake of the killing of six Copts throughout the last three weeks in the North Sinai town...

- February 24, 2017 0

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Christian killed in Sinai, sixth in a month: Egypt officials

By Egypt IndependentEgyptian security officials say suspected Islamic militants gunned down a Coptic Christian inside his home in northern Sinai, the sixth such killing in...

- February 24, 2017 0

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Christian Father Shot in Head, Son Burned Alive Days After ISIS Affiliate Calls Believers ‘Prey’

By Stoyan Saimov - The Christian PostA Coptic Christian man was shot in the head while his son was burned alive in El-Arish, North...

- February 23, 2017 0

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Militants kill 2 Christians in Sinai

By Egypt IndependentEgyptian security officials say suspected militants have killed two Christians in the restive north of the Sinai Peninsula, days after an Islamic...

- February 22, 2017 0

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Islamic State posts video of man it says was Egypt church bomber

By Egypt IndependentThe Islamic State published a video on Sunday threatening Egyptian Christians and showing the last statement of a man it said was...

- February 20, 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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