Tag: Copts

Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack

September 7, 2022 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Ismailia, Sinai

Prayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017.

A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama Moussa Waheeb and his son Hany, were shot dead while working in the fields in Gelbana, 20 kilometers east of the city of El Qantara on the . . . Read More

Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts

August 12, 2022 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Giza

Copts have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. (Getty)

An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in the early morning of 28 July when a man approached him . . . Read More

Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son

March 24, 2022 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Egypt, Youth

Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah (r) with a local priest.

An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a . . . Read More

Death threats, by Islamic State in Sinai, against Egyptian Copt sons who mourn dad

April 26, 2021 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Middle East

Nabil Habashi Salama, taken by unseen watchers; he was 'executed' by ISIS, March 2021

Fears that ‘Islamic State’ once again threatens the lives of some of the Middle East’s largest Christian population have emerged again, after the radical militant group killed an Egyptian Coptic businessman who’d funded the construction of the only church in his north Sinai village. The death of 62 year old . . . Read More

Egypt: Series of fires in their churches ‘not a coincidence’, say Copts

November 11, 2019 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Mansoura, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

Three Coptic churches in the Upper Egypt region were hit by fires in the last three weeks which, the Copts say, is “not a coincidence”. On Friday morning 1 November a fire started in an adjacent hall of the Mar-Girgis (St George) al-Gyoushi Church in the Shubra district of the . . . Read More

Egypt legalises 156 churches with many more still waiting

March 6, 2019 Egypt Al-Azhar, Churches, Copts, Egypt

Entrance to a Coptic Church in Egypt. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Egypt legalised 156 more churches and service buildings on Tuesday, 5 March, bringing the total of approved religious venues to 783, reports Egypt Independent. Since 2016, more than 3,700 churches have applied for legal status under a new law that was designed to make it easier to establish and build churches . . . Read More

Book about beheaded Copts offers ‘different view of martyrdom’

February 15, 2019 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Libya, Upper Egypt

The 21 men moments before they were executed on a beach in the coastal city of Sirte, Libya, in February 2015. (Still from video)

Four years since the beheading of 20 Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya by Islamic State militants, a book has been published about the victims based on interviews with their families. The 20 Copts plus one Christian from Ghana, all daily labourers in Libya, were abducted by armed militants who . . . Read More

From China to sub-Saharan Africa, Christians experience high levels of persecution in 73 countries

January 16, 2019 Global News -- No Particular Country Buddhist nationalism, China, Colombia, Copts, Egypt, Hindu nationalism, India, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Libya, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Vietnam, World Watch List

In its latest annual survey of 150 countries monitoring how difficult it is to live as a Christian, out today, the overall trend in the 2019 World Watch List is that almost half (73) showed extreme, very high or high levels of persecution. A year earlier, it was 58 countries. . . . Read More

Egypt: Eleven men sent for trial for attacking Copts

December 20, 2018 Egypt Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Helwan, Islamic State

A funeral is held for the eight victims of the attack on the Mar Mina Church in Helwan on 29 December last year. Photo: Getty Images)

Eleven men suspected of an attack Coptic Christians in Egypt’s capital Cairo a year ago will have to appear before a criminal court, reports Coptic news site Watani. The suspects were caught by police following a double attack on the Mar Mina and Pope Kyrillos VI Coptic Orthodox Church in the . . . Read More

Egypt: Copt sentenced to three years in prison for ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post

December 12, 2018 Egypt Blasphemy, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya, Prophet Muhammad

Following Adel's facebook post in July an attempt by a mob to attack the Coptic Saint Tadros Church in Menbal village was prevented by security guards. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

An Egyptian court has sentenced a Coptic Christian to three years in prison after he was found guilty of “insulting Islam in the first degree”. Abdo Adel, 43, from Menbal, a village in Egypt’s Minya governorate, 200km south of Cairo, was accused in July of publishing a post on his . . . Read More

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