Tag: Egypt

Egyptian pastor ‘fine and safe’

August 16, 2013 Egypt Asyut, Egypt, Seventh-day Adventists

Reports that an Egyptian pastor was kidnapped on Thursday (Aug. 15) were false, according to The World Today, a Swedish newspaper. Nasralla Salib, pastor of a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Asyut, on Friday (Aug. 16) told the newspaper he was “fine and safe”, having been sheltered from trouble by Muslim . . . Read More

Crisis deepens as Cairo camps cleared

August 14, 2013 Egypt Alexandria, Cairo, Egypt, Minya, Mohamed Morsi, Sohag, Suez

The Wall Street Journal reports that a number of churches have been attacked and some set on fire in Egypt following the bloody clearing of Morsi supporters from Cairo ‘camps’. Churches in the town of Sohag and village of Delga were reportedly set on fire while churches in the Abou . . . Read More

Zero

August 13, 2013 Egypt Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood

That’s the number of Christians among the 25 people sworn in as governors by Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour on Tuesday, according to Mideast Christian News. Egypt has 27 governates; Mansour filled the governor’s position in all but two of them. The incoming slate of regional executives has a Mubarak-era . . . Read More

Religious animosity grows in Egypt

August 13, 2013 Egypt Egypt, Islamic extremism, Mohamed Morsi

Mainstream media have picked up on the religious dimension of sectarian clashes in Egypt. The Associated Press on Aug. 8 took a broad look at the issue, which included this chilling quote from an Assiut shopkeeper: “[Islamists] run their index finger across their throats to suggest they will slaughter us, . . . Read More

Tawadros cancels appearances

August 9, 2013 Egypt Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Mohamed Morsi, Pope Tawadros II

The leader of the Coptic Church in Egypt, Pope Tawadros II, has cancelled a number of weekly meetings due to fears of Islamist attacks, the BBC reports. It says the cancelled meetings are thought to have been Bible lectures in St. Mark’s Cathedral. Bishop Angaelos, leader of the UK’s Coptics, . . . Read More

Beyond count

August 6, 2013 Arab Spring, Copts, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, London, Middle East, Netherlands, Syria, Turkey

This much seems certain: Christians are leaving the birthplace of Christianity in large numbers. Just how large those numbers are, however, is a matter of educated conjecture, according to a new report on Christian migration from the Middle East. A precise accounting is impossible, but report author Markus Tozman says . . . Read More

Copts suffer pro-Morsi backlash

July 8, 2013 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Mohamed Morsi

Twenty-three houses belonging to Coptic Christians have been set on fire in Naga Hassan village, Egypt, after a Muslim man was reportedly killed in an altercation with three Copts on July 5, writes Egypt Independent. Although local residents said the altercation had no religious or political motivation, others are concerned . . . Read More

All change again in the Middle East

July 7, 2013 Andrew Bennett, Baghdad, Bishop Angaelos, Cairo, Canada, Copts, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, London, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, Religious freedom, Saddam Hussein, Syria

Middle Eastern Christians are experiencing one of the most significant periods in their history, according to religious and political leaders meeting in London last week. Regime changes in Egypt and Iran, and sectarian violence in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, have presented an opportunity for the Christian minority to speak out, . . . Read More

‘Epidemic’ of sexual violence in Egypt

July 4, 2013 Egypt Egypt, Women

In the midst of the political demonstrations in Egypt, violent attacks have been carried out against at least 91 women in the past week. According to Human Rights Watch, many of these extended acts of aggressions are pre-meditated assaults by groups of men.

Coptic Pope backs protests

July 3, 2013 Egypt Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, Pope Tawadros II

Egypt’s Coptic leader Pope Tawadros II has lent his support to the growing anti-Morsi protests, saying it is “wonderful to see the Egyptian people taking back their stolen revolution in a peaceful way”, reports Al-Ahram.

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