Sisi under fire after Coptic church attack
...to be a reaction by Islamists and it may be only the beginning of a new series of violence… The Copts were the scapegoats.” The increase in hostility towards Copts...
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Egypt’s Copts mourn after ‘deadliest attack in recent memory’
Embed from Getty Images Egyptian clergymen and officials carry the coffins of the victims of the bomb explosion that targeted a Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo yesterday. Egypt’s Christian community...
‘We have a right to build churches’ says Copt after latest attack
...others were looted, as were four Coptic-owned shops. Makram said the mob also attempted to reach the Copts’ community centre, but that a group of Copts “confronted them and were...
Egypt
...them out”. Egypt’s Copts, who account for around 10 per cent of the population, were also targeted in 2013, after they were perceived as supporting the ousting of President Mohamed...
Libya
...Libya in February 2015 that 20 Egyptian Copts and a Ghanaian were beheaded by the Islamic State group. Only a tiny fraction of Libya’s estimated 20,000 Christians are Libyans –...
Fresh criticism for Egypt church construction law
After the ratification of a law on the building of churches in Egypt in September, Copts and rights organisations have voiced concerns that this will not aid in turning the...
Christian children ‘singled out for bullying’ in Egyptian classrooms
...State, Egypt’s Copts have been able to live within a margin of tolerance, with only occasional attacks and official infringements. Some people now see this margin tightening. They fear that...
Cairo bishop urges Church to be ready for martyrdom
Archbishop Mouneer Anis. Michael Adel, Bridges Cultural Center A senior Anglican archbishop from the Global South called for the Church to be “ready to sacrifice their lives for the...
5 years since Maspero, Egypt’s Copts denied permit to remember 27 dead
...Army against a peaceful Christian protest march, which resulted in 27 Copts killed and scores of others injured. Known as the “Maspero massacre” it mainly took place (on 9 Oct....
Four Copts, including child, abducted for ransom
Four Christians, including a child, on Sunday (2 Oct.) became the latest of hundreds of Egypt’s Copts to fall victim to kidnapping and extortion. Brothers Emad and Ramy Lamei, both...