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Jesus didn’t “turn the other cheek”—neither should you

By R. Robert McTeigue, SJ - AleteiaIt’s time to talk about resisting evilWhat’s the second most misunderstood passage of Scripture? (The first: “Judge not,...

- February 23, 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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ISIS Egypt Is Openly Betting On Bigotry As A Winning Strategy

By: Alberto M. Fernandez - MEMRIThe propaganda of the Islamic State is entering an interesting new phase, as the "physical" Caliphate comes under unprecedented...

- February 22, 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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Options for Sinai Copts: Leave or die

By Nader Shukry - Watani InternationalThe figures are staggering: In just two weeks, four Copts were killed on identity in separate incidents in the...

- February 20, 2017 0

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Islamic State threatens to wipe out Egypt’s Copts

By World Watch MonitorUPDATE: (20 Feb)The Islamic State has released a propaganda video, vowing to and wipe out Egypt’s Coptic Christians and “liberate Cairo”.The...

- February 20, 2017 0

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Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians in Turkey on the Verge of Extinction

By Uzay Bulut - AINA -The current Greek population in Turkey is estimated at fewer than 2,000. But this population decline was not due...

- February 16, 2017 2

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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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