Tag: Muslim Brotherhood

Viewpoint: A country in confusion

September 27, 2013 Egypt Al-Nour Party, Arab Spring, Copts, Hamas, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

World Watch Monitor / David Degner, Getty Images Markus Tozman, a graduate student of the Middle East at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, did research work in Cairo from 17 June until 16 August 2013. His views, contained in the essay below, are the product of information gathered from interviews, . . . Read More

After the storm

September 20, 2013 Egypt Anba Macarius, Copts, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

The charred remains of the Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in Delga.World Watch Monitor A few days on from the Egyptian army’s re-establishment of state control over Delga in Minya province, the country’s Coptic Christians are beginning to reveal the extent of their sufferings at the hands of . . . Read More

Egyptian army breaks Islamist grip on Delga

September 15, 2013 Egypt Copts, Minya, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

Since the Aug. 14 wave of anti-Christian violence that swept over Egypt, the Christians of Delga have complained they had been abandoned by government security forces. Many of their churches and businesses burned, and their houses marked with red “X”s, Delga Christians either fled or hunkered down in their homes, . . . Read More

Renewed day by day

September 4, 2013 Egypt Copts, Minya, Muslim Brotherhood, Protestants

On Aug. 14, the Egyptian Army moved against large groups of protesters who had set up camp in Cairo. They had been in the streets since July 3, when the military removed Mohamed Morsi from the presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood from power. Using helicopters, tanks, tear gas and live ammunition — . . . Read More

Another view of Egypt’s violence

August 27, 2013 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood

While much of Egypt and the world fixates on the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood and their attacks on Coptic churches, Timothy Kaldas sees something else: “The state’s cynical use of Christian suffering to justify its violent behavior.” Despite the fact that attacks on Christian churches and communities have been . . . Read More

Churches across Egypt attacked

August 14, 2013 Egypt Copts, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

World Watch Monitor is curating news coverage of the anti-Christian violence that swept Egypt on Aug. 14 after the military used force to break up camps of protesters who have been demanding the reinstatement of former president Mohamed Morsi. Scores of the protesters were killed, leading to violence in cities across the country. The protesters . . . 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

In Egypt, Christian anxieties mount as Islamist hostility increases

August 13, 2013 Egypt Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Luxor, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Pope Tawadros II

A burned truck is part of the damage caused Aug. 3 by a 4,000-person anti-Christian mob in Bani Ahmed, Egypt.World Watch Monitor Mass no longer is being celebrated at The Church of St. Mary. Police officers guard the entrance. Throughout the Egyptian town of Eastern Bani Ahmed south of . . . Read More

Pro-Morsi backlash turns deadly for some Christian communities

July 18, 2013 Egypt Arab Spring, Copts, Luxor, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Pope Tawadros II, Port Said

Violence in the town of al-Dabayia on July 5 claimed the lives of Rasim Taodharos Ocaldius, 56; Mharib Noshi Habib,38; Romany Noshi Habib, 33; and Emile Naseem Sarofim, 41.Special to World Watch Monitor Violence across Egypt following the July 3 ouster of Mohamed Morsi has claimed the lives of . . . 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

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