Tag: Libya
Jizya-Vigilantes Target Christian Minorities
Raymond Ibrahim - 14/3/14 In the al-Nafura region of Asyut, Egypt, an increasingly common scene took place earlier this month. Isaac Eli—a Coptic Christian—was abducted under ... Read More
Open Season on Christians in Libya
Raymond Ibrahim - 3/5/14 It’s open season on Coptic Christians in Libya. A few days after seven Copts were identified as Christians, pulled out of ... Read More
Seven Christians Executed in Libya
Raymond Ibrahim - 26/2/14 Libyan authorities came across the slain bodies of seven Christian Copts in the region of Garutha, less than 20 miles ... Read More
Confirmed: U.S. Chief Facilitator of Christian Persecution
Sen. John McCain meets with “Syrian rebels,” many of whom are not Syrian, and one of which is a known kidnapper (L – Muhammad ... Read More
Copts detained in Libya released early, say church sources
MENA – 12/4/13 Libya has reportedly released four Egyptian Copts who had been imprisoned for over a month on charges of proselytizing, said on Thursday ... Read More
Libyan Christians spending Easter in fear
By CHRIS STEPHEN - 30/3/13 CHRISTIANS in Libya are bracing themselves for a tense Easter after attacks on churches, the arrests of evangelists and the growing ... Read More
Libya continues persecution of Copts, closes embassy in Egypt
Egyptian Coptic Christian Ragaa Abdullah (C-R) wife of Ezzat Hakim Attallah, who died in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, days after being arrested on ... Read More
Pope Tawadros II calls upon Coptic movements to choose ‘peaceful struggle’
Ahram Online - 16/3/13 Tawadros II met several Coptic movements to discuss recent crisis in Libya and call upon groups to struggle peacefully. Coptic Pope ... Read More
Libya: Security of Christian Communities ‘Precarious’ in Libya – Archbishop
15/3/13 Tripoli — Various Christian communities in Libya, as well as some Muslim groups, have been feeling increasingly under pressure from hardline Islamist groups since ... Read More
Libyan Coptic church suffers second attack
15/3/13 For the second time in a week a Coptic Christian church in Benghazi, Libya, has been attacked. Police say they prevented the unidentified attackers ... Read More
Protest at Libya’s embassy in Cairo over death of Copt in Benghazi
Ahram Online- 11/3/13 Coptic group calls for protest by Libyan embassy Cairo demanding release of detained Christians. The Coptic Youth Front has called for a ... Read More
Foreign Ministry: 20 Egyptian Copts held in Libya released
Al-Masry Al-Youm Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm 6/3/13 Libya released 20 Egyptian Copts who were being held in the country on charges of proselytizing, said ... 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
Egyptian Copts in Libya allegedly detained, tortured following ‘missionising’ claims
Photos published on Facebook of detained Copts in Libya accused of proselytisation. Sherry El-Gergawi – 1/3/13 Scores of Egyptian Coptic Christians are detained, abused by ... Read More
Christians in Libya Face Safety Concerns
Jamie Dettmer - 18/2/13 TRIPOLI — Questions of safety for Christians are being raised in Libya. Three communities of Roman Catholic nuns are leaving the country ... Read More
Libya arrests foreign ‘missionaries’
Chris Stephen in Tripoli - 17 /2/13 Four foreign nationals accused of distributing Christian literature, a charge that could carry the death penalty. Four foreigners have ... Read More
Two die as Coptic Orthodox Church in Libya attacked with grenade
2/01/2013 Ken Hanly Misratah - Unknown attackers threw a grenade at a Coptic Orthodox Church in Dafniya a town near Misrata Libya. The attack killed ... Read More
Vandals Wrack Greek Orthodox Cemetery in Tripoli
Stella Tsolakidou - 13/11/2012 Metropolitan Theofylaktos of Libya met an unsettling scene upon entering the Greek Orthodox Cemetery in Tripoli to conduct an annual memorial ... Read More
Christian’s under fire in Libya
Historic St George Church in Tripoli International News Desk 17/9/2012 Christian's in the Middle East are under attack in a new wave attacks perpetrated by ... Read More
Orthodox priest met in Ukraine with families of hostages held captive in Libya
12/6/2012 Soon after his return from Libya coworker of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Archpriest Zechariah Kerstyuk met in ... Read More
Orthodox priest survives assassination attempt in Libya
Moscow, May 5, Interfax - Archimandrite Ioakim (Vasilaku), a representative of the Alexandria Orthodox Church, has been shot at in the yard of the George ... Read More