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Forced displacement of Copts: No end in sight?

By Nader Shukry - WataniIt is a very sad fact that, despite all the changes in recent years, the forced displacement of Copts in...

- February 15, 2017 0

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The Silent Slaughter of Egypt’s Copts

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for CS -Reports of Copts being killed in cold blood simply because of their Christian identity are on the...

- February 14, 2017 1

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In Rejecting Refugee Priority, Middle Eastern Christians Act Like Abuse Victims

By Luma Simms - The Federalist (via AINA) -The time since President Trump's executive order temporarily halting some Middle Eastern immigration has been distressing...

- February 14, 2017 0

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Egypt: judge sentences Coptic boy to 15 years; lawyer says ruling motivated ‘by faith, not law’

By World Watch Monitor -A 15-year-old Coptic Christian boy has been sentenced to 15 years in an Egyptian prison for sexual assault, even though...

- February 8, 2017 0

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Egypt & Persecution of Coptic Christians

https://youtu.be/MX_DFg8AdZUMimi Geerges interviews Samuel Tadros, Hudson Institute, and Oren Kessler, Foundation of Defense of Democracies.

- January 27, 2017 0

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Lavrov believes EU avoiding discussions of problems of Middle East Christians

By TASS, Russian News Agency -The European Union is avoiding discussions on the problems of Christians in the Middle East under pretext of political...

- January 25, 2017 0

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Women who are captured by Isis and kept as slaves endure more than just sexual violence

David Barnett - Independent (UK) -Yazidi women seized by Isis are not merely sex slaves – a term which oversexualises their ordeal and diminishes...

- January 23, 2017 0

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Fourth Coptic Christian murdered in 10 days

By World Watch MonitorA Coptic surgeon was found murdered in his flat on Friday (13 Jan) in Upper Egypt, making him the fourth Coptic...

- January 18, 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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