Gunmen kill 28 Egyptian Christians in Ascension Day bus attack
...and March, after the Islamists posted videos and leaflets telling Copts to leave the area or be killed. To date this year, eight Copts have been targeted and brutally murdered...
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Egypt: small signs challenging religious intolerance
...Al Azhar broke off ties with the Vatican after Francis’ predecessor Benedict XVI called for better protection for Copts, following a bombing of a church in Alexandria in which 23...
Relatives of Coptic ‘martyrs’ join summit on persecuted Christians in US capital
...are family members of the 20 Egyptian Copts beheaded by Islamic State on a beach in Libya in February 2015. The 21st man to die with them was from Chad,...
Solidarity for Egypt’s beleaguered Christians during first Coptic papal visit to UK
...route to reconciliation.” Copts have been left terrified by the two suicide bomb attacks on Palm Sunday in churches in Tanta (pictured) and Alexandria Before the papal address, Bishop...
Sinai: eighth El-Arish Copt killed in targeted attack
...to media reports that said he had returned there to work). His family had fled to Port Said following a string of murders there earlier this year targeting Copts. The...
Pope Francis in Egypt: ‘Violence is the denial of every true religion’
...Copts and Coptic churches and has been in a state of emergency after the twin attacks on Palm Sunday which left at least 49 people dead and more than 110...
Weary Copts urge Pope Francis to challenge Sisi over attacks and chronic discrimination
Egyptian Copts have welcomed Pope Francis’ “insistence” that his visit to Cairo this week go ahead despite the recent attacks on two churches that killed 45 worshippers. The head of...
Copt’s forgiveness of husband’s killer stuns broadcaster
...the news anchor to exclaim that Copts “are made from a different substance”. Naseem Faheem, the guard at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the first people...
IS claims deadly attack near old Egyptian monastery
...the victims saw the killer calmly tick their names off a list after he’d murdered them. The murders led to hundreds of Copts fleeing Sinai’s largest city, El-Arish, for Ismailia....
Coptic boy, 16, ‘murdered by Islamic extremists seeking to scare Christians’
...the Islamic State group. In February, the group said it wanted to “wipe out” Egypt’s Copts. A spate of killings of Copts then followed in the North Sinai Governorate, leading...