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Easter for Egypt’s Copts: mourning loved ones amid tight security

April 18, 2017 Egypt Alexandria, Beheira, Cairo, Copts, Kom El-Loufy, Tanta

During Easter Mass in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria deacons carried pictures of the seven people killed in the Palm Sunday attack. Photo: Open Doors International

...1,500 Copts living in Kom El-Loufy, there is no church. The Copts do, however, have permission from the local authorities to gather for prayer. Following the attack on Thursday, no...

Bombed Egypt church cancels Easter celebrations

April 13, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Easter, Palm Sunday, Pope Francis, Tanta

...pray, but instead make them more determined to attend. “These events do not intimidate us but increase our desire to hold Masses and prayers in church. Copts are not shaken...

Muslims in Egypt speak out against Palm Sunday attacks

April 12, 2017 Egypt Copts, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Tanta

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

...threatened to wipe out Egypt’s Copts. They warned of more attacks in a statement, saying: “The Crusaders and their apostate followers must be aware that the bill between us and...

Egypt’s Christians mourn 49 killed in Palm Sunday church bombings

April 10, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Palm Sunday, Pope Tawadros II, Tanta

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

...behind this laxity and who is being held accountable.” The Islamic State group, which in February threatened to wipe out Egypt’s Copts, claimed responsibility for the attack and warned of...

Bomb near Egyptian church defused amidst growing insecurity

April 4, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt, Gharbia, Islamic State, Muslim Brotherhood, Tanta

...in December last year, which killed 28 Mass-goers; there was sharp criticism of Egypt’s president Al Sisi. Angry Copts protested and some called for his resignation. They feel that the...

Copts still homeless months after homes burnt down

March 16, 2017 Egypt Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Kom El-Loufy, Minya, Sinai

Makeshift church in Minya burned down by extremists
Photo: Wataninet

...rumours the Copts planned to turn one of the houses into a church. Eight months later, the Copts – two brothers, Ashraf and Ibrahim Khalaf, and their families – are...

Killer of Coptic alcohol vendor sentenced to death

March 10, 2017 Egypt Alexandria, Copts

...such as this in Egypt’s second, cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, so soon after the suicide bomb on a chapel close to the Coptic Cathedral of Cairo, has alarmed many Copts...

UPDATE: Missing Egyptian woman, 18, given new Muslim identity by security services

March 8, 2017 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Kidnapping, Luxor, Upper Egypt, Women

Hanan Adly Girgis disappeared on 26 Jan. (World Watch Monitor) UPDATE (8 March) The brother of 18-year-old Hanan Girgis, an Egyptian Christian woman missing since 26 January, says he has...

Merkel accused of downplaying attacks on Copts

March 3, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Al-Azhar, Copts, Egypt, North Africa, Pope Tawadros II, Sinai, Sunni

...to North Africa for trade talks. Joachim Schroedel, who has worked in Egypt for more than two decades, rejected Mrs Merkel’s assertion that Egyptian Copts were in a “very good...

Egyptian Copt widow: ‘Gunmen who killed my husband and son then ticked them off their IS hit-list’

March 2, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Bishop Angaelos, Cairo, Copts, El-Arish, Islamic State, Ismailia, Sinai, Suez

...Nation of the Cross. The Copts refused to deny their faith. Orthodox Copts make up about 10 per cent of Egypt’s 90 million people and are the Middle East’s largest...

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