Tag: Coptic Christian
Coptic Christian Girl Shot Dead in Egypt
Middle East Correspondent - 10/8/13 CAIRO, Egypt, August 9, 2013 (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Christian girl walking home from a Bible class ... Read More
Coptic Christian church destroyed by Egypt looters
18/7/13 There has been a string of attacks on Christians in different provinces in Egypt since Mohammed Morsi was forced from office, with Coptic Christians ... Read More
Egypt: Coptic Christian Priest shot dead
Martyred Coptic Priest - Fr. Mina Aboud Sharween By Chris Irvine - 6/7/13 A Coptic Christian priest in Egypt's Northern Sinai has been shot dead, in what ... Read More
The Kidnapping of Coptic Girls
Frank Crimi -8/3/13 When a rumor circulated last week that a Muslim woman in the southern Egyptian city of Kom Ombo had been forcibly converted to ... Read More
Coptic Church attacked in Libya’s Benghazi: ministry
Libyan officials have condemned a Thursday attack on a Coptic Christian church in Benghazi. Here, Copts attend a service in the Church of St. Barbera ... Read More
AP Interview: Egypt’s Coptic Christian pope delivers measured criticism of Islamist government
By HAMZA HENDAWI | Associated Press 7/2/13 Egypt's Coptic patriarch delivered a cautious but unusually sharp criticism of the nation's Islamist leadership in an interview ... Read More
Sectarian unrest grips Egypt, Islamists try to storm Coptic church
By Haggag Salama - 20/1/13 Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters trying to storm a Coptic Christian church in southern Egypt on ... Read More
Six expat Copts receive death penalty sentence for anti-Islam film
Ahram Online -28/11/2012 Court orders death penalty for 6 Coptic Egyptians, who reside abroad, over controversial anti-Islam film. The state security court issued a verdict ... Read More
Christian Persecution: Muslim Trafficking Networks Target Coptic Christian Women (Video)
Rebecca Hamilton 20/10/2012 This is a such a tragic story. As you watch this news package from CBN News, please pray for Mary and all ... Read More
Christians in Egypt Remember the Massacre One Year Ago
Matthew Clark 12/10/2012 One year ago, dozens of Christians were murdered in Egypt as the nation’s military carried out a brutal massacre. Coptic Christians were ... Read More
Egypt frees 2 Coptic Christian boys held for defiling Quran
6/10/2012 CAIRO - The Egyptian authorities yesterday released two Coptic Christian boys taken into in juvenile detention for allegedly urinating on the Quran but they ... Read More
Canadian Coptic Christian demands police protection, says he fears for his life
The Canadian Press 22/9/2012 TORONTO - A Canadian Coptic Christian says he fears for his life and wants police protection after Egypt issued an arrest ... Read More
Coptic Christian church condemns film, fearing backlash
13/9/2012 WASHINGTON: The Coptic Christian church condemned the film that has triggered violent protests in Muslim countries on Wednesday, reflecting fears of a backlash after ... Read More
Coptic Christian defends accepting role on Egypt presidential advisory team
Ahram Online 28/8/2012 Samir Morcos, a Coptic Christian scholar and writer, rejects criticism that his position on President Morsi's advisory team is merely symbolic. Egypt's ... Read More
Coptic Christian, woman among Mursi assistants
28/8/2012 CAIRO Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi named a liberal Christian, a hardline Islamist and a woman as assistants on Monday as he sought to reach ... Read More
Pope Shenouda exhibition opens in Cairo
Nevine El-Aref 16/8/2012 Abbaseya Cathedral hosts exhibition charting life of Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III, who died in March 2012. Christians have long flocked to ... Read More
President-elect Morsi receives acting pope of Egypt’s Coptic Church
Ahram Online 26/6/2012 New Islamist president-elect receives acting head of Coptic Church, says he will not countenance 'condescension' to Egypt's Coptic-Christian community. Mohamed Morsi, ... Read More
Coptic Christians Praying for Egypt’s Believers
25/6/2012 A Coptic Christian leader in the United States and his flock are praying for fellow believers in Egypt. Bishop David of the Coptic Christian ... Read More
14 candidates run for the Coptic Christian Papal Seat
1/5/2012 A Coptic legal advisor announces that 14 bishops and priests from Egypt and abroad have nominated themselves for the papal chair, and that there ... Read More
Overcrowding at Coptic pope’s viewing leads to 3 deaths, dozens of injuries
From Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, For CNN 19/3/2012 Cairo (CNN) -- Overcrowding inside a cathedral where Coptic Christians had gathered to pay last respects to their ... Read More
Amid violence, Egypt’s Christians rely on Muslim friends, worry about future
Rob Kerby, Senior Editor 12/3/2012 Burned-out rubble is all that’s left of Christian shopkeeper Abskharon Suleiman’s appliance store in the northern Egyptian village of Sharbat. ... Read More