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Rep. Trott Fights To Protect Egypt’s Coptic Community

WASHINGTON, DC: U.S. Representative Dave Trott (MI-11), Michigan’s only Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, recently led a bipartisan effort in Congress...

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Smith Leads Mission to Genocide Survivors in Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq—Just days before Christmas, a leading human rights lawmaker, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) went to Iraq to witness first-hand the plight of Christians...

- December 21, 2016 0

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The Crisis of Christians in Egypt

By Gabriel Said Reynolds- First ThingsOn Monday, December 12, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi walked alongside the Coptic Pope Tawadros (Theodore) II at the...

- December 21, 2016 0

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Egypt’s Coptic Christians are stuck between between ISIS and an indifferent government

Farid Y. Farid – Quartz AfricaJust over a week ago, terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on St Peter & St Paul’s...

- December 21, 2016 0

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Middle East Christians celebrate Christmas under yoke of genocide

By Philippe Nassif - The HillThe ISIS bombing of St. Mark’s cathedral in Cairo on Dec. 11 2016, the largest church in the Middle...

- December 21, 2016 0

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10-Year-Old Maggie Becomes Youngest Victim of Cairo Cathedral Terror Attack

By Egyptian StreetsMaggie Mo’men, 10, has become the youngest victim of the Cairo Cathedral terrorist attack after dying of her wounds on Tuesday morning,...

- December 20, 2016 0

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Like Past Egyptian Leaders, El-Sissi Has Failed to Protect Coptic Christians

By Frederick Deknatel – World Politics ReviewA bomb ripped through a church in central Cairo last week, killing at least 26 people in the...

- December 20, 2016 0

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The Predicament of Egypt’s Copts

By Michael Wahid Hanna -The December 11th bombing of the St. Paul and St. Peter Church in Cairo, which abuts the seat of the...

- December 15, 2016 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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