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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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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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Seeking to secure Sinai, Egypt builds closer ties with Hamas

By Reuters -After years of strained relations, Egypt is moving closer to Hamas in Gaza, offering concessions on trade and free movement in return...

- February 22, 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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Egypt official: Suspected militants kill Christian in Sinai

By Fox NewsEL-ARISH, Egypt – An Egyptian security chief says suspected Islamic militants have gunned down a Coptic Christian teacher on his way to...

- February 17, 2017 0

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Islamic State in Egypt beheads Sinai clerics mistaken for priests

By Associated Press –WPThe Islamic State affiliate in Egypt says it has beheaded two men that it mistakenly described in a statement as priests,...

- November 21, 2016 0

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The Islamic State claims responsibility for the Brussels attacks

The Islamic State claims responsibility for the Brussels attacksBy James McAuley, Michael Birnbaum and Brian Murphy - The Washington PostMarch 22, 2016BRUSSELS — Three...

- March 22, 2016 0

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Egyptian government policy statement to be delivered ‎Sunday as scheduled: Minister

Egyptian government policy statement to be delivered ‎Sunday as scheduled: MinisterAhram OnlineMarch 21, 2016Egypt's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Magdi El-Agati said Monday that Prime...

- March 22, 2016 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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