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Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Speaks on the Future of Christians in the Middle East

By Bar Daisan - AINA NewsThe future of Christians in the Middle East was the subject of a panel discussion at the Munich Security...

- March 14, 2017 0

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Egypt: Facing sectarianism in the short and long term

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin - Ahram OnlineIt’s no wonder the terrorist attacks on Christian families in Sinai last week sparked such anger and so much...

- March 7, 2017 0

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Egyptian Journalist: Discrimination Of Egyptian Copts The Result Of Fanaticism In Education System

By - MEMRIFollowing the expulsion by ISIS of Coptic families from their homes in north Sinai, Egyptian journalist Fathia Al-Dakhakhni wrote an article in...

- March 7, 2017 0

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Copts Flee Sinai Amid ISIS Campaign Of Murder, Threats

By: R. Green - MEMRIThe following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information,...

- February 28, 2017 0

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L’exode ou la mort : les chrétiens fuient le Nord-Sinaï par centaines

Isabelle Cousturie - AleteiaAprès la vague d'homicides annoncée par Daesh, les familles chrétiennes s’enfuient par centaines et confirment "la chasse aux chrétiens" lancée dans...

- February 28, 2017 0

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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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All Art Is “Immoral,” Says “Moderate” Sheikh Al Azhar

By Raymond Ibrahim - Special to Coptic Solidarity -Art has a largely negative impact on human morality. So says Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand...

- February 27, 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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