Coptic priest killed in Cairo
...Cairo. Egypt’s Copts have suffered a wave of deadly violence this year. In February, IS vowed to “wipe them out”. In the same month, hundreds of Copts fled Egypt’s Sinai...
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Egypt Cabinet committee starts work on legalisation of unlicensed churches
...Copts ask: ‘Where is our government? Copts tired of ‘sacrificing willingly’ for Egypt’s unity ‘We have a right to build churches’ The Coptic Orthodox Church also protested, calling the law...
Libya: bodies of beheaded Copts found
...Relatives of the dead Copts had complained about the lack of evidence after the Libyan public prosecutor’s office took more than a week to confirm the location of the bodies....
Coptic girl, 16, rescued 92 days after Islamists kidnapped her
...conversion and collective punishment haunt Egypt’s Copts ‘G’ said one of the strategies they used to gain the girls’ trust was for the kidnapper, a Muslim man, to tell the...
‘Mixed feelings’ for families after IS cameraman reveals where beheaded Copts were buried
Demonstrators in Egypt hold up a banner showing the faces of nine of the murdered Copts. (World Watch Monitor, 2015) The families of the 20 Egyptian Christians beheaded on a...
Latest attack on Copts in Egypt: newborn baby’s throat slit
...are increasing because those kidnappers enjoy complete impunity.” Learn more Four more Copts killed in ‘most aggressive campaign in history of modern Egypt’ Copts tired of ‘sacrificing willingly’ for Egypt’s...
Egypt: Copts face arrest after Facebook post leads Muslims to riot
...of Ezbat El-Sheikh Nageim, first posted the comments on Facebook in the wake of the Minya bus attack in May, when 28 Copts were killed. The day after the attack,...
Egypt: death penalty for terrorists linked to beheading of 20 Copts
Demonstrators in Egypt hold up banner showing the faces of nine of the Copts murdered in Libya in 2015 (World Watch Monitor) An Egyptian court has sentenced seven people to...
Egypt: Coptic churches ‘closed for security’ reopen
...local Muslims, after which World Watch Monitor understands the police shut the church for the Copts’ protection. On 21 August, following the closure of their church, the Copts processed peacefully...
Egypt: Copts appeal to PM after 24-year delay in return of school
...schools were returned to the Church, the Baylana school remained with the Ministry of Education. In 1993 the Copts took the matter to court, which ruled in favour of handing...