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Doubly Targeted – In the Middle East and in the West

By: Alberto M. Fernandez - MEMERIWe live in a deeply politicized and polarized world. This is a place where saying that "all lives matter"...

- December 7, 2016 0

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Sohag Copts: All We Want Is to Pray

By Nader Shukry – WataniEfforts to persuade the Muslim villagers of al-Naghameesh in Dar-as-Salam, Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, to allow the village...

- December 7, 2016 0

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Before the Law for Building Churches: The Copts’ constitutional right to pray

By Youssef Sidhom – WataniI have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent...

- December 5, 2016 0

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“Build a church? Out of question!”

By Nader Shukry – WataniFor Copts, the Law for Building and Restoring Churches they had so long aspired for was passed last August. So...

- November 30, 2016 0

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Potentially Deadly Church Attack Thwarted in Egypt

By Raymond Ibrahim: Special for Coptic SolidarityA man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers...

- November 29, 2016 0

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In post-Arab Spring Egypt, Muslim attacks on Christians are rising

By Sudarsan Raghavan - The IndependentA ‘disturbing wave of radicalism’ has deepened sectarian tensions, pitting neighbour against neighbourThe Christian and Muslim villagers grew up together,...

- November 29, 2016 0

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Pakistan Bans All Christian TV Stations, Arrests Cable Operators in Crackdown

By Anugrah Kumar - Christian PostPakistan's television regulatory body has banned all 11 Christian TV channels airing in the country and arrested at least...

- November 23, 2016 0

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Mariam Ibraheem, Christian Mother Who Gave Birth in Chains, and Other Persecuted Christians Share Testimonies in DC

By Samuel Smith - Christian PostFive different churches in the nation's capital united together Saturday night to pray for Christians being persecuted all over...

- November 21, 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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