Tag: Minya

A dozen incidents against Egypt’s Copts in 7 weeks

July 20, 2016 Egypt Anba Macarius, Copts, Egypt, Luxor, Minya, Samalut, Sohag, Tanta

Since May 2016, Egypt’s Christians have suffered multiple attacks. Reflecting what most Copts see as the country turning a blind eye to increased violence against its Christian minority, the Coptic Church’s Bishop Makarius tweeted on 17 July “reminding” president Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi that Copts “are Egyptian citizens”, and that his diocese . . . Read More

Assault at Egypt priest’s home kills 1, injures 3

July 18, 2016 Egypt Alexandria, Copts, Egypt, Minya

One Christian was killed and three others were injured in an assault at a Coptic priest’s family home, said a statement by the Diocese of Minya, 240km south of Cairo. “The family of two priests of Minya were subject to assault involving clubs and knives,” said the statement about the . . . Read More

Coptic Bishop: Egypt ‘diseased’ with discrimination

July 14, 2016 Egypt Anba Macarius, Copts, Minya

An Egyptian bishop has called for an end to discrimination against the country’s Christians, urging the government to do more to control the situation in villages across the country. “We have to recognise everyone in Egypt as citizens of equal rights and obligations,” said Bishop Makarius in an Arabic interview . . . Read More

Islamic State kills priest in Sinai

July 1, 2016 Egypt Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic State, Minya, Mohamed Morsi, Sinai

A Coptic Orthodox priest was shot dead yesterday morning (30 June) in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula by Islamist militants. Fr. Raphael Moussa, 46, was shot four times in the head from a passing taxi as he stood next to his car in Arish, the capital of northern Sinai. The priest was . . . Read More

Bishop pleads for justice as attack on Copt grandmother ‘stripped naked’ stirs Egypt

June 3, 2016 Egypt Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Minya, Soad Thabet

Souad Thabet and Bishop Makarius of the Coptic Church have both stood for justice and reconcilliation.Courtesy of Wataninet, Diocese of Minya A Coptic bishop has urged full recourse to law to punish those behind an attack in Minya, Upper Egypt, which saw the 70-year-old mother of a man rumoured . . . Read More

Village rumour results in ‘attack on Copts’

May 26, 2016 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Minya

At least two Copts were injured and seven homes burned when angry villagers ran amok after a rumoured affair between a married Christian man and a Muslim woman in Minya, 250km south of Cairo. According to local Christian sources, scores of Muslims ransacked and torched several properties belonging to the . . . Read More

‘Extremists’ burn down Minya makeshift church

May 12, 2016 Egypt Anba Macarius, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

“Extremists” were behind the destruction of a makeshift village church in Upper Egypt, said a local Coptic bishop on Thursday (12 May). “St. Mary’s Church in the village of Esmaelia al-Bahreia was burned down completely after an attack carried out by extremists,” said Bishop Macarius of Minya, referring to the . . . Read More

Coptic headmistress denied promotion ‘for being Christian’

March 2, 2016 Egypt Copts, Minya

An Egyptian headmistress is not being instated in her post “because she’s a Christian.” This is the claim surrounding the case of Mervat Sefein, a vocational teacher in Beni Mazar, a town of Minya, 220 km south of Cairo. Sefein was included on a Feb. 8 Egyptian Ministry of Education . . . Read More

Egypt sentences ‘anti-Islam’ teens to 5 years

February 25, 2016 Egypt Blasphemy, Copts, Egypt, Gad Younan, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Minya

Three Egyptian Christian students accused of “offending Islam” were sentenced today (25 Feb.) to five years each, Coptic news site Watani said. Muller Atef, Albert Ashraf and Bassem Amgad were given jail terms, while a fourth, Clinton Maged, is due to be remanded in a juvenile facility for five years, according . . . Read More

Copt arrested for distributing Bibles

August 11, 2015 Egypt Bibles, Copts, Egypt, Minya, Proselytism, Upper Egypt, Wahhabism

Egyptian Christian Medhat Ishaq was arrested in a satellite town of Cairo on Sunday (9 August) for giving away Bibles to passersby. According to the weekly Watani newspaper, the 35-year-old Copt was standing in front of the Arabia shopping mall in 6 October town when passersby stopped him and summoned . . . Read More

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