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Coptic woman who lost half her face in church bombing arrives in Germany for operation

October 24, 2018 Egypt Cairo, Copts, Egypt

Samiha and her husband at the hospital in Aachen, Germany, where she will undergo a complicated operation to restore her face. (World Watch Monitor) The Coptic Christian woman who lost...

17 sentenced to death for Coptic church bomb attacks

October 12, 2018 Egypt Alexandria, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Minya, Palm Sunday, Pope Tawadros II

...killed, and 35 were injured. Alexandria Palm Sunday bombing, one year on – lone dad who lost his wife, uncle and nephew Copt’s forgiveness of husband’s killer stuns broadcaster The...

Perpetrators of Minya bus attack and the beheading of Coptic Christians captured in Libya

October 11, 2018 Al-Mourabitoun, Al-Qaeda, Copts, Egypt, Ghana, Islamic extremism, Libya, Minya

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...to Egypt Today. Libya said Ashwary would be extradited to Egypt following questioning. Meanwhile, Libya has also captured a suspected perpetrator in the beheading of 20 Egyptian Copts and one...

Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as weapon of war

October 5, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Islamic State, Women, Yazidis

...Norway’s capital, Oslo, on 10 December. Among the 331 nominees for the peace award this year were also Egypt’s Copts, for choosing peaceful coexistence over retaliation in the face of...

Egypt’s Copts nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

September 28, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Pope Tawadros II

In October last year the Coptic church in Sohag, Minya governorate, had its electricity and water supply cut by police, who said they had received complaints from Muslim villagers (Watani)

The Copts were nominated for “their refusal to retaliate against deadly and ongoing persecution from governments and terrorist groups in Egypt and elsewhere”. (Photo: Watani) Egypt’s Coptic Christians have been...

‘UN must recognise persecution of Christians in Middle East as genocide’

September 17, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Europe, Genocide, Iraq, Islamic State, Jan Figel, Middle East, Sam Brownback, Syria, UN, Yazidis

At the moment of the photo taken, ISIS had just been pushed out of the home towns of these Christians. People were hoping and anticipating to return to their towns some day.

...Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report ‘ISIS won despite defeat as West was unwilling to confront it’ Fresh move to prosecute IS for genocide UN...

Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report

September 14, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Copts, Egypt, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Sahel, Somalia, Syria, Tony Blair, Women, Yemen

This is one of the fifty five photos that is part of the photo story "Renewed day by day," commissioned by World Watch Monitor, exploring the extensive damage to churches in Egypt's Minya region that took place in late August 2013.

...underlying ideology’ Learn more ‘ISIS won despite defeat as West was unwilling to confront it’ ‘World leaders can’t continue to ignore persecution of Copts’ New IS branch discovered in Nigeria,...

Closed churches force Copts to hold funerals in the streets

September 12, 2018 Egypt Asyut, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

...the village of Dimshau Hashim, in Minya governorate, where the houses of Copts recently came under attack by a mob protesting against Copts gathering to pray in one of the...

‘World leaders can’t continue to ignore persecution of Copts’

September 10, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State

More than 20 people lost their lives in the Palm Sunday attack on the St George Cathedral in Tanta, Egypt.

...seriously time for people of influence to unite in order to end [the violence]”. There have been over 400 violent incidents against Copts since 2013, according to the Washington DC-based...

Egypt: Copts’ homes attacked despite advance notice to police of threats

September 3, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Luxor, Minya, Police

The Friday attack, reported to involve hundreds of locals, left two Copts with knife wounds to the head and face. (Picture: Watani) Houses of Copts have again come under attack...

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