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A merry Saudi Christmas and the flight from Egypt

December 25, 2017 Christmas, Egypt, El-Arish, India, Migrants, Saudi Arabia

...the Nineveh Plains in 2014. For these Copts displaced from El-Arish, Christmas looks bleak and exile is impoverishing them. They have been placed in low-cost accommodation in nearby cities after...

Egypt teenager’s murder ‘aimed to intimidate Copts ahead of Christmas’, says his pastor

December 22, 2017 Egypt Asyut, Copts, Egypt, Upper Egypt

Murdered 14 yr old Ishak Nashaat Birwan, who drove a 'tuk-tuk' taxi

Murdered 14-year-old Ishak Nashaat Birwan, who drove a ‘tuk-tuk’ taxi (World Watch Monitor) The body of 14-year-old Ishak Nashaat Birwan was found on Wednesday (20 December), 11 days after he...

Egypt: After 7 years of delays, new church for Copts, who agree to drop arson claims

December 21, 2017 Egypt Anba Macarius, Copts, Egypt, Kom El-Loufy, Minya

After 12 years of fierce opposition Coptic Christians in Kom El-Loufy, Minya, will soon again have a church. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...of the church and the charges dropped, it seems years of struggle for the Copts in the village may have come an end. As World Watch Monitor reported, Copts in...

Egypt: ‘Let them live to tell the story’- boys who saw dad die on the monastery road

December 21, 2017 Egypt Children, Copts, Egypt, Minya

Marco and Mina with their mother and elder sister hold portrait of their father who died in 25 May attack. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...them live to tell the story.’” Learn more Egypt: bus attack victim’s son donates compensation money to build mosque and church Copts tired of ‘sacrificing willingly’ for Egypt’s unity The...

‘80% of religious discrimination targets Christians’

December 7, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Human rights, Middle East, Patriarch Bartholomew I, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Religious freedom

Father Poulos looking up to the ceiling in this house that still has a lot of destruction and needs thorough repairs

A priest takes a look inside a badly damaged home in a village near Mosul, Iraq, August 2017 (World Watch Monitor) Christians are the victims in 80 per cent of...

Egypt: Coptic church reopens 8 months after Palm Sunday bombing

December 4, 2017 Egypt Alexandria, Catholics, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Gharbia, Palm Sunday, Protestants, Tanta

...bombers targeting Copts celebrating Palm Sunday. Between the two churches – the other was in Alexandria, 130km northwest of Tanta – 46 people were killed and over 100 injured. “Everyone...

Egypt: 21 churches receive long-delayed government approval to build

November 29, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Al-Azhar, Anba Macarius, Cairo, Churches, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic State, Minya, Pentecostals, Port Said, Protestants, Religious freedom, Samalut, Sinai, Sohag, Sunni, Upper Egypt, USA

...tensions between Muslim and Christian villagers. In response, the Bishop of Minya, Anba Macarius, said: “It is as though worship is a crime that Copts have to be penalised for.”...

Iraq and Philippines Christians join Red Wednesday religious freedom solidarity display

November 22, 2017 Bashar Warda, Belgium, China, Copts, Egypt, France, IDPs, India, Iraq, Islamic State, London, Manila, Myanmar, Nineveh Plains, Religious freedom, Rohingya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, UN, Uyghurs

Landmarks in the UK, Ireland, Iraq and the Philippines are due to be floodlit in red today (22 November) to highlight the persecution of faith groups for their “peacefully held...

ISIS ‘the greatest preacher for Christianity in the world’

November 21, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Middle East, Minya, Samaan Shehata

More than 20 people lost their lives in the Palm Sunday attack on the St George Cathedral in Tanta, Egypt.

...Hundreds of Copts fled Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in February after eight Copts were murdered and Islamists posted videos and leaflets telling Copts to leave the area or be killed. In...

Egypt: Coptic priest’s murderer sentenced to death

November 17, 2017 Egypt Beni Suef, Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Minya, Palm Sunday, Samaan Shehata, Sinai

...then in May 28 Copts were slaughtered on a bus in Minya. In July, after three more Copts were murdered in eight days, a priest in Cairo said “Copts are...

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