Egypt: Coptic woman stabbed after leaving Alexandria church
...in a series against Copts in Egypt. Last month, a security guard was stabbed outside another church in Alexandria – the same one that had been bombed on Palm Sunday....
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Egypt: Copts worship in streets after clashes over church permit
...August), local police prevented the Copts from accessing the building they had been using as a church, saying they didn’t have the necessary permit. (World Watch Monitor) But the Copts...
Egypt: ‘Copts barred from church by police’
...the premises by police yesterday (20 August), according to Coptic news site Watani. When the Copts started chanting “Kyrie Eleison [Lord have mercy]” in the street, the police dispersed them...
Egypt: second Copt in two years dies mysteriously in same Army unit – this time on his first day
...the authorities have arrested the [soldiers] is a very positive development. However, there is still the possibility that [they] will not be held accountable.” Other Copts ‘found dead’ in the...
Copts in Kom El-Loufy still have no church in their village, and they’re not alone
...homeless and had been threatened with more violence. The Kom El-Loufy Copts organised a sit-in at St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo. On 4 June, some of the Copts...
Family of Egyptian Copt held without charge accuse police of ‘torturing him to death’
Gamal Kamal Aweida (World Watch Monitor) The family of a Coptic Christian who died in police custody last week have called for legal action to be taken against the two...
Egypt’s Copts face discrimination in football, too
“Systematic discrimination” is preventing Coptic Christians from participating in professional sport in Egypt, according to a feature article on the Egyptian website MadaMasr: ‘Copts and Egypt’s national game – We’ll...
Security guard stabbed at church in Egypt’s Alexandria
...Copts were killed by IS militants as they travelled on a bus to a monastery in Minya. Three IS suicide bombings targeting churches killed dozens more Christians in December and...
Egypt: bus attack victim’s son donates compensation money to build mosque and church
...clear that the attempt to unleash clashes and divisions among Egyptian Copts and Muslims has had the opposite effect to what the terrorists wanted. Meanwhile Professor Mounir Farag, an expert...
Why are attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christians getting worse?
...said Tadros, author of ‘Copts at the Crossroads: The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt’. She added that it was “offensive” to suggest Copts had brought their suffering on...