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One Dead, Several Injured in Islamist Attacks on Copts in Egypt

One Dead, Several Injured in Islamist Attacks on Copts in EgyptBy Morningstar NewsJuly 19, 2016One Christian is dead, several others have been wounded and...

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President Sisi’s Promise of Religious Revolution Remains Unfulfilled

President Sisi’s Promise of Religious Revolution Remains UnfulfilledShahira Amin, Egyptian StreetsJuly 5, 2016A photo released by Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows...

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Egypt’s Christians already have a Savior, they need a friend

Egypt’s Christians already have a Savior, they need a friendJohn L. Allen Jr., CRUXJuly 3, 2016Few would suggest that Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is...

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Elaborate Suicide Attack Hits Christian Village in Lebanon

Elaborate Suicide Attack Hits Christian Village in LebanonBy Ben Hubbard and Hwaida Saad, The New York TimesJune 26, 2016BEIRUT, Lebanon — Eight suicide bombers...

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Coptic Solidarity Press Release: Status of Copts in Egypt Remains Precarious Despite Positive Rhetoric of Egyptian Government

Coptic Solidarity Press Release: Status of Copts in Egypt Remains Precarious Despite Positive Rhetoric of Egyptian GovernmentJune 21, 2016(Washington, DC)Coptic Solidarity’s 7th Annual Conference...

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Mina Thabet Released On Bail After a Month in Prison

Mina Thabet Released On Bail After a Month in PrisonBy POMEDResearcher and rights activist Mina Thabet was released on LE10,000 bail after a court...

- June 20, 2016 0

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Copt teenager kidnapped for ransom in Upper Egypt

Copt teenager kidnapped for ransom in Upper EgyptOngoing ‘phenomenon’ targets hundreds of Egyptian ChristiansBy WorldWatch MonitorApril 21, 2016The NewsEarlier this month, a young Christian...

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UK Parliament votes that Islamic State commits ‘genocide’

UK Parliament votes that Islamic State commits ‘genocide’By WorldWatch MonitorApril 21, 2016The UK Parliament has joined US Secretary of State John Kerry, US House of...

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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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