Tag: Upper Egypt
The 21 Decapitated Copts – A German author on the importance of the Church of Martyrs for the West
Martin Mosebach Manfred Karl Böhm (Editor- Christian Affairs - Europe) - OCP News Service - 22/3/18 A book by the German author Martin Mosebach (Frankfurt) ... Read More
Statement by Bishop Angaelos on the Brutal Murder of Coptic Orthodox Priest in Cairo
Coptic Orthodox Church-UK -13/10/17 Coptic Orthodox priest brutally murdered in Cairo Statement by His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in ... Read More
Coptic Orthodox Priest Killed in Egypt
John Anton - OCP News Service - 12/1017 +Memory Eternal+ Cairo-Egypt: A Coptic Orthodox Christian priest was murdered and another was injured in a knife ... Read More
“There will be always persecution, as long as people walk in God’s way” – Pope Shenouda III
english.ahram.org CYC - 28/5/17 There will be always persecution, as long as people walk in God's way. Watch this short video regarding the last incident ... Read More
All Egyptians are equal under the constitution: Sisi to Coptic Pope following sectarian attacks
COPTSUNITED - July 2016 Also Read: Egyptians unity topped the meeting between Sisi and pope, Church’s spokesman Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told the head of ... Read More
Egypt: After Ransom Paid – Coptic Christian Still Killed
Raymond Ibrahim - May 2015 A 55-year-old Coptic Christian man was kidnapped and held for ransom. Although his family eventually paid, and the Muslim abductors took ... Read More
UPDATE: Three dead in sectarian clashes in Minya
Ahram Online - 30/11/13 A fight over the construction of a wall developed into violence in Upper Egypt. Three people were killed and several injured ... Read More
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Delga: after Islamist attacks, Liturgy is back
09/23/2013 Hundreds of Christian families who had fled the city attended the service in the small chapel located inside what is left of the Anba ... Read More
Violence erupts after Muslim protesters attack Upper Egypt Church
18/1/13 Street battles between security forces and Muslim protesters begins outside Al-Marshada Church, following alleged sex attack on girl by Coptic man; village Iman calls ... Read More
Egypt’s Christians fear ‘a season of blood’
Sherif Rushdy, chief judge of a Cairo appeals court, describes Copts as “a ship in the middle of a sandy hurricane.” Many are trying to ... Read More
18 million Egyptian Coptic Christians not safe. Voice of Copts
7/10/2011 Washington DC: October 7, 2011. (PCP) Voice of the Copts strongly condemns the barbaric attack by Muslims of the Marinab Coptic Church located in ... Read More
Coptic Christian Killed in Attack on Village in Upper Egypt
8/11/2011 Muslim mob murders him in his home in assault on village. ISTANBUL, August 10 (CDN) — A Coptic Christian was killed and several others ... Read More
Four men arrested in connection with sectarian clashes in Upper Egypt
26/06/2011 Egyptian security sources said on Sunday that four men had been arrested for their alleged involvement in sectarian clashes that erupted in Sohag governorate, ... Read More
Egypt: Hundreds of Salafists attack a Coptic church in Upper Egypt
25/6/2011 Armed with sticks, Islamic extremists besieged in the church of Saint George in Bani Ahmed, in the Archdiocese of Minya, for five hours threatening ... Read More
Muslim Mob Attacks Christian Family in Egypt
2/6/2010 Washington — International Christian Concern (ICC) has been informed that a group of Muslims attacked the home of an Egyptian Coptic family over a ... Read More