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Egypt: Coptic villagers persuaded to shut church to keep the peace

May 24, 2018 Egypt Andrea Zaki, Beni Suef, Copts, Egypt

An Egyptian church that was attacked by a local Muslim mob after applying for legal recognition is to be temporarily closed following a conciliation session between Copts and Muslims aimed...

Egypt: Coptic mother recalls Minya bus attack that killed her son

May 18, 2018 Egypt Beni Suef, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

...opened fire and killed 28 Copts, including two children. Twenty-five others were injured. Among the victims was Nadia’s son Hany. He, along with other men, refused to comply with the...

Egypt: Families of beheaded Copts finally reunited with remains of loved ones

May 16, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Libya, Minya, Pope Tawadros II, Ramadan, Samalut, Upper Egypt

...gathered at the church, where the remains of the 20 Copts were placed in one large coffin to be buried in the chapel. Thirteen of the dead came from Al-Our,...

New promise that bodies of 21 beheaded Christians will be returned to families

May 11, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Libya, Minya, Samalut

Libya officially confirmed it had found the bodies of the beheaded Christians in October. (World Watch Monitor) For the third time since February, the families of the 20 Egyptian Copts...

Kidnapping fears for missing Coptic newlywed

May 8, 2018 Egypt Aswan, Beni Suef, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Kidnapping, Marriage, Minya, Qalyubia, Qena, Samalut, Sharqia, Sohag, Upper Egypt, Women

A Coptic Christian woman who had been married for two weeks went missing from her school last Wednesday, sparking fears that she may have been kidnapped. Her disappearance brings to...

Egyptian Copts face Muslim mobs protesting against legalisation of churches

May 4, 2018 Egypt Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Luxor, Palm Sunday, Upper Egypt

...for over 30 years. As the number of Copts increased in the village, and the nearest church was eight miles (13km) away, the diocese of Esna and Armant bought the...

‘How can you accidentally shoot yourself in the back of the neck?’ ask Coptic soldier’s family

May 2, 2018 Egypt Asyut, Conscripts, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Giza

...of Beni Edrees, was in his third year in the army and was stationed in El-Arish, capital of the governorate of North Sinai, where last year several Copts were murdered,...

Egypt’s disappearing Coptic women and girls

May 1, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Beni Suef, Cairo, Children, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Kidnapping, Marriage, Minya, Qalyubia, Qena, Sharqia, Sohag, Women

In September last year, World Watch Monitor talked to an ex-member of a network that targeted Coptic women. The man said the network began in the seventies but has reached...

Egypt: Court will try 3 men for assault on elderly Coptic woman

April 25, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya, Soad Thabet

Soad Thabet and Bishop Makarius of the Coptic Church.

...leader rejects community reconciliation system Copt killer’s death sentence confirmed Coptic teacher charged with contempt of religion for questions about Muhammad Egypt’s elections and the man dividing the country’s Copts...

‘Giving freedom to women is something remarkable’ – Egypt’s Protestant head

April 25, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Andrea Zaki, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Protestants, Sunni, Women

...million in recent years, making them the country’s second-largest Christian denomination after the Copts. While historically the Church in many countries has been accused of institutional sexism, in the Egyptian...

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