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Pakistani Christian boy, 16, charged with blasphemy for discussing his faith

By World Watch MonitorA 16-year-old Pakistani Christian boy has been charged with blasphemy for talking with a colleague about his belief in Jesus, the...

- July 19, 2017 0

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What’s behind the Turkish “seizure” of Church properties?

By John Burger - Aleteia1600-year-old monastery at center of ongoing disputeTurkey’s appropriation of Syriac Church property represents a reversal from Ankara’s policies towards Christian...

- July 3, 2017 0

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Want to defeat the legacy of ISIS? Try rebuilding non-Muslim communities it has destroyed.

The Washington Post - By Alberto FernandezAlberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, served as the State Department’s coordinator for...

- May 24, 2017 0

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Pakistani prosecutor to Christians: ‘I’ll acquit you if you convert to Islam’

By Asif Aqeel - WorldWatch MonitorThe father of one of 42 Pakistanis – who are on trial for lynching two men they suspected of...

- April 5, 2017 0

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‘They called my husband an infidel and killed him”

By Bel Trew - The Times (UK)Two Isis fighters wielding guns approached their target. Bahgat Zakhar, 58, was an Egyptian Copt on a “kill...

- April 3, 2017 0

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Sisi’s Egypt is a Poor Partner for the United States in the Fight Against Terrorism

By Neil Hicks, Human Rights FirstEgyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will visit President Trump at the White House next week. The visit comes at...

- April 3, 2017 0

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Despite setbacks for Islamic State, Egypt’s Coptic Christians remain at risk

By Sean Savage - JNS -As the Islamic State terror group faces setbacks in Syria and Iraq, its affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has...

- March 17, 2017 0

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Tally of Coptic families displaced from al-Arish

Nader Shukry - Watani InternationalEgyptian Ministry of Solidarity has reported that until today the number of families displaced from the North Sinai town of...

- March 15, 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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