Tag: Ansar Beit al-Maqdis

‘IS’ kills Coptic father and son in Sinai

February 22, 2017 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic State, Sinai

Two more Coptic Christians have been killed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security officials said suspected militants were responsible, as AP reports. This comes days after the Islamic State threatened to wipe out Christians from Egypt and following the murder of two other Copts in Sinai. Saad Hana, 65, was . . . Read More

Another Copt killed ‘by Islamic State’ in Sinai

February 16, 2017 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Sinai

A Coptic Christian teacher has been killed in the city of El-Arish in Egypt’s North Sinai province, four days after the murder of a Coptic vet. Gamal Tawfiq, 50, was gunned down on his way to school this morning (16 Feb), reports AP. His murder follows that of Bahgat Zakhar . . . Read More

Sinai Christian shot after ‘confessing’ his faith

May 10, 2016 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic extremism, Sinai

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 about his business as a government medical supplier when he was found dead last week, south of Arish, reports in . . . Read More

IS urges militants to target Egypt’s Copts

November 10, 2014 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Suez

Islamic State leader Abu Musab al-Maqdisi has called on jihadists to target Egypt’s Copts and judges, saying, “Targeting, pursuing and killing them is a means to serve the cause of our chaste prisoners held by the tyrants.” Egypt’s most active Islamist militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, allegedly pledged allegiance to . . . Read More

South Korean ‘Christians’ attacked

February 21, 2014 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Egypt, Islamic extremism

Three South Korean tourists were killed and more than a dozen injured after their bus was bombed in Egypt on Feb. 16. The American Spectator reports that the tourists were all Christians from the same church and had just visited a popular monastery. The motive for the attack is unknown. . . . Read More

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