Category: ALEXANDRIA

62 Coptic Christian Families Forcibly Evicted by Salafi Muslims

obl- February 10, 2012

Coptic Christians demonstrating against persecution By Asia News 10/2/2012 Salafi Muslims in the area of el-Amerya, with the complicity of the police and state authorities, ... Read More

Christians fear losing freedoms in Arab Spring movement

obl- February 1, 2012

By Oren Dorell and Sarah Lynch, USA TODAY 1/2/2012 CAIRO – From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key ... Read More

3,000 attack Egyptian Christians over rumored cell phone picture

obl- January 30, 2012

Timothy Whiteman 30/1/2012 The Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) is reporting that a riotous mob consisting of extremist Muslim Salafists and members of the Muslim ... Read More

Why Christians in Egypt Are Holding Their Breath, Part 2

OCP- January 26, 2012

By Kurt J. Werthmuller 26/1/2012 The long-term future of Christians in Egypt is fraught with peril. Paradoxically, the last century has been a period in ... Read More

Prominent Coptic activist calls on Minister of Justice to investigate Two Saints Church bombing

obl- January 23, 2012

A delegation of rights activists have called upon the Ministry of Justice to investigate the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria. Mohamed Abdel ... Read More

The Detained Patriarch, Persecuted Christians and a Dying Church

obl- January 18, 2012

Asmara, the Eritrean Capital 18/1/2012 This is not just an article; rather I would like to shed some light into the pathetic conditions of Christians ... Read More

Church leaders at odds over planned 25 January demonstrations

OCP- January 14, 2012

Emad Khalil Ragab Ramadan 11/01/2012 Religious figures from different Egyptian Christian sects have taken opposing stances on the involvement of Copts in the planned protests ... Read More