Motive unclear in attack on Copt priest’s daughter
...As World Watch Monitor has reported previously, Copts are sceptical of such claims and the usual absence of a proper investigation. On 5 July, a 33-year-old Christian pharmacist was found...
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Mob attack damages Copt homes in Minya, Egypt
...to Coptic news site Wataninet, two Copts, Ashraf Khalaf and his brother Ibrahim Khalaf, were in the process of building new homes for their families when a rumour spread that...
‘House church’ prompts Muslims to attack Christian homes in Alexandria
...as a place where Christians could gather, in the absence of any other place in the village they could use. Copts suffered material damage during the incidentsWorld Watch Monitor ...
Egypt’s blasphemy law
...6-month to 5-year prison sentence. The legal ambiguity of “defamation”, coupled with a track record of using this Article against Copts and liberals, has, according to its detractors, rendered it...
Bishop pleads for justice as attack on Copt grandmother ‘stripped naked’ stirs Egypt
...bring the attackers to justice, rejecting the practice of extrajudicial “conciliation meetings” that have long pressured Copts to give up legal rights. “The law should take its course until the...
Village rumour results in ‘attack on Copts’
At least two Copts were injured and seven homes burned when angry villagers ran amok after a rumoured affair between a married Christian man and a Muslim woman in Minya,...
Egypt Parliament to discuss easing restrictions on church-building
...such a common law was floated back in the 1970s as a ‘remedy’ to friction between Copts and Muslims after a number of churches had been attacked,” said Coptic legal...
Sinai Christian shot after ‘confessing’ his faith
A Coptic civil servant was killed in Sinai, Egypt, after his vehicle was stopped and passengers were asked if any “Christian infidels” were on board. Messak Nasralla, 58, was going...
Coptic teenager kidnapped for ransom in Upper Egypt
...no less than 72 cases of kidnappings, extortion and related violence against Copts in the period from 2011 to 2014, the most recent figures it has. Those targeted for kidnapping...
Coptic headmistress denied promotion ‘for being Christian’
...Muslim could govern us!’ and ‘No god but Allah! Mikhail the enemy of Allah!’ Copts complain of routine discrimination against them in government and other sectors. In Egyptian schools, all...