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Multi-faith letter in Support of H.Res. 673

By Coptic Solidarity - Today the International Religious Freedom Roundtable sent a multi-faith letter to Chairmen Royce and Ros-Lehtinen signed by 41 organizations and individuals to ask...

- October 2, 2018 0

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Coptic Solidarity Urges Chairmen Royce and Ros-Lehtinen to Mark-up Resolution Supporting Persecuted Copts

For Immediate ReleaseWashington, DC (PRWEB) August 20, 2018Coptic Solidarity has coordinated an urgent campaign, requesting that Rep. Ed Royce ( R- CA), Chairman of the...

- August 20, 2018 1

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Congressman Ed Royce Leads Congressional Visit to Egypt

By - POMEDHouse Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairman Paul Cook (R-CA) traveled to Egypt and met with Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry on Monday. The officials...

- February 20, 2018 1

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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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