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Coptic teacher cleared of contempt of religion for questions about Muhammad

April 25, 2018 Egypt Beni Suef, Blasphemy, Children, Copts, Education, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Prophet Muhammad

...who again wished to remain anonymous, told World Watch Monitor: “The judicial system has recently discriminated against Copts and perpetrated injustice. Copts face judicial discrimination most blatantly in prosecutions for...

Egypt: Protestant leader rejects community reconciliation system

April 20, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Al-Azhar, Andrea Zaki, Arab Spring, Cairo, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Protestants, Samaan Shehata

Thousands attend Kasr El Dobara Evanglical Church in Cairo each week. There are thought to be as many as 2m Evangelicals in Egypt

...Andrea Zaki said he “strongly” opposed the scheme because it renders the law “absent”. The reconciliation scheme is often used to resolve tensions such as conflict between Copts and Muslims...

Egypt church application triggers attack

April 19, 2018 Egypt Beni Suef, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Luxor, Qena

...the Coptic homes were attacked, police had arrested 16 Copts in connection with the unrest. Many other young Copts left the village for fear of being arrested. Nady said the...

Egypt church bombings: Court considers death sentences for 36

April 11, 2018 Egypt Alexandria, Cairo, Islamic State, Tanta

Chaos in St George's cathedral, Tanta, after a suicide bomber blew himself up during the Palm Sunday liturgy

...bombing of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria. Eighteen people died after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside the cathedral gates, killing eight Copts, six Muslim passers-by and four Muslim...

Egypt: Three arrested for plotting Easter attacks

April 11, 2018 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Islamic State, Palm Sunday, Sohag, Tanta

Coptic Church in central Egypt. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2004)

...of relief among Egyptian Christians that this year’s popular and crowded Easter celebrations took place without incident as Copts marked the first anniversary of suicide bomb attacks on two cathedrals...

Egypt: Copt killer’s death sentence confirmed

April 3, 2018 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Egypt

...alcohol, will be executed, reports Egypt-based Copts United. Adel Aboul Nour Suleiman was sentenced to death last year for killing Youssef Lamei in January 2017. Sunday’s ruling rejected an appeal...

Egyptian mob celebrates blocking application for new church

March 26, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt, Qena, Upper Egypt

...Watch Monitor has learned from local Copts. The nearest church for the 500 Copts living in El Toud, in Qena Governorate, is 10km away. So, since 2007, they have used...

Alexandria Palm Sunday bombing, one year on – lone dad who lost his wife, uncle and nephew

March 23, 2018 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Palm Sunday

On Palm Sunday 2017, Magid was selling palm branches with his wife and son by the gate of St Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, when a suicide bomber detonated his...

Coptic teacher charged with contempt of religion for questions about Muhammad

March 22, 2018 Egypt Beni Suef, Blasphemy, Children, Copts, Education, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Prophet Muhammad

...Suef, who again wished to remain anonymous, told World Watch Monitor: “The judicial system has recently discriminated against Copts and perpetrated injustice. Copts face judicial discrimination most blatantly in prosecutions...

Copt soldier’s family say he didn’t commit suicide, he was killed

March 19, 2018 Egypt Asyut, Conscripts, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Upper Egypt

...activist in Minya and Asyut, who did not wish to be named, called for an investigation into Matthew’s death, and also those of a number of other Copts found dead...

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