Tag: Copts

‘Greater collaboration’ will help ME Christians

May 1, 2015 Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Italy, Middle East, Minorities, UK

Bishop Angaelos, leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, told an international conference this week that there is much to lose if the international community doesn’t take ownership of the suffering of Christians in the Middle East. Speaking at ‘Christians in the Middle East: What Future?’ in Bari, . . . Read More

71 life sentences for burning Egyptian church

April 30, 2015 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Islamic extremism, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

An Egyptian court has sentenced 71 people to life in prison for attacking and burning a Coptic church in reaction to the 2013 removal of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, Ahram Online reports. The Virgin Mary Church in Giza province’s Kafr Hakim village was torched and looted by a mob on . . . Read More

Video mocking IS causes riots in Egypt

April 26, 2015 Egypt Blasphemy, Copts, Gad Younan, Islamic State

An April 17 ‘reconciliation meeting’ in Al-Nasriyah village in Upper Egypt, where Christians announce a local teacher, Gad Younan, will leave town and not return.World Watch Monitor When an Egyptian teacher filmed five Coptic Christian secondary school students impersonating terrorists from the so-called Islamic State, the boys could be . . . Read More

‘IS deeply evil’ – Archbishop of Canterbury

April 21, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Copts, Ethiopia, Europe, Islamic State, Justin Welby, Migrants, Refugees

The Archbishop of Canterbury was on a ‘visit of condolence’ to Egypt for its 20 Christians (one was from Ghana), beheaded by IS just before Easter, when news of the murdered Ethiopians came through. During his visit he described the treatment of Christians in Egypt as “the worst since the 13th . . . Read More

Another Copt beheaded in Libya

March 5, 2015 Libya Copts, Islamic State, Libya

Libyan security forces have found the beheaded body of another Egyptian Coptic Christian, Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency reports. Discovered Mar. 2 on the outskirts of Mechili town in eastern Libya, the body was identified by his cousins as Mansour Saad Awad, who had been working at a poultry . . . Read More

Copts aid Egyptians’ evacuation from Libya

February 24, 2015 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Libya

The Coptic Church has set up a “crisis unit” in order to facilitate rapid evacuation and repatriation of Egyptians still present in Libya – starting with those most affected by the fighting. Families of the expatriates have been urged to provide information to the Crisis Committee before Feb. 28. According . . . Read More

Shea: Copt massacre may unite Egypt

February 20, 2015 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt

The mass beheadings of 21 Coptic Egyptians in Libya may have the surprising effect of bringing Egypt’s Muslims and Christians closer together. So says Nina Shea, director of the . “The killers may have aimed to exploit sectarian hostilities – as they have in Iraq and Syria – and splinter Egyptian society. . . . Read More

Shooting of witness threatens trial of Coptic Christians’ murderers

February 19, 2015 Egypt Copts, Islamic extremism, Luxor, Upper Egypt

Taken during the funeral of Shahid Nasemis SaroufimWorld Watch Monitor It’s happening several times a week now, particularly in the towns and villages of Upper Egypt. Just a brief news report, citing an isolated killing here and there of a Coptic Christian by “unknown gunmen.” Another statistic, usually just . . . Read More

600,000 Christians have fled Egypt since 1984

February 17, 2015 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Libya, Middle East, Upper Egypt

Rupert Shortt, author of Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack, has written an opinion piece in The Telegraph in which he argues that the murder of 21 Coptic Christians by Islamic State is not an isolated case but instead “the latest of countless outrages perpetrated against Christians in or near the . . . Read More

Egypt seeks international help against IS after 21 Christians beheaded

February 16, 2015 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Al-Azhar, Bishop Angaelos, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Libya, Minya, Samalut, Terrorism, Wahhabism

Egypt began seven days of national mourning after Islamist militants released a graphic video on 15 February, depicting the mass beheading of 20 Coptic Christians and a Ghanaian Christian in Libya. Originally it was believed that all 21 men were Coptic Egyptians, but on 25 February MidEast Christian News confirmed . . . Read More

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