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Perpetrators of Minya bus attack and the beheading of Coptic Christians captured in Libya

October 11, 2018 Al-Mourabitoun, Al-Qaeda, Copts, Egypt, Ghana, Islamic extremism, Libya, Minya

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...to Egypt Today. Libya said Ashwary would be extradited to Egypt following questioning. Meanwhile, Libya has also captured a suspected perpetrator in the beheading of 20 Egyptian Copts and one...

Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as weapon of war

October 5, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Islamic State, Women, Yazidis

...Norway’s capital, Oslo, on 10 December. Among the 331 nominees for the peace award this year were also Egypt’s Copts, for choosing peaceful coexistence over retaliation in the face of...

Egypt’s Copts nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

September 28, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Pope Tawadros II

In October last year the Coptic church in Sohag, Minya governorate, had its electricity and water supply cut by police, who said they had received complaints from Muslim villagers (Watani)

The Copts were nominated for “their refusal to retaliate against deadly and ongoing persecution from governments and terrorist groups in Egypt and elsewhere”. (Photo: Watani) Egypt’s Coptic Christians have been...

‘UN must recognise persecution of Christians in Middle East as genocide’

September 17, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Europe, Genocide, Iraq, Islamic State, Jan Figel, Middle East, Sam Brownback, Syria, UN, Yazidis

At the moment of the photo taken, ISIS had just been pushed out of the home towns of these Christians. People were hoping and anticipating to return to their towns some day.

...Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report ‘ISIS won despite defeat as West was unwilling to confront it’ Fresh move to prosecute IS for genocide UN...

Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report

September 14, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Copts, Egypt, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Sahel, Somalia, Syria, Tony Blair, Women, Yemen

This is one of the fifty five photos that is part of the photo story "Renewed day by day," commissioned by World Watch Monitor, exploring the extensive damage to churches in Egypt's Minya region that took place in late August 2013.

...underlying ideology’ Learn more ‘ISIS won despite defeat as West was unwilling to confront it’ ‘World leaders can’t continue to ignore persecution of Copts’ New IS branch discovered in Nigeria,...

Closed churches force Copts to hold funerals in the streets

September 12, 2018 Egypt Asyut, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

...the village of Dimshau Hashim, in Minya governorate, where the houses of Copts recently came under attack by a mob protesting against Copts gathering to pray in one of the...

‘World leaders can’t continue to ignore persecution of Copts’

September 10, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State

More than 20 people lost their lives in the Palm Sunday attack on the St George Cathedral in Tanta, Egypt.

...seriously time for people of influence to unite in order to end [the violence]”. There have been over 400 violent incidents against Copts since 2013, according to the Washington DC-based...

Egypt: Copts’ homes attacked despite advance notice to police of threats

September 3, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Luxor, Minya, Police

The Friday attack, reported to involve hundreds of locals, left two Copts with knife wounds to the head and face. (Picture: Watani) Houses of Copts have again come under attack...

Egypt: Mob attacks prevent Coptic church’s recognition for ‘security’ reasons

August 31, 2018 Egypt Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

Following demonstrations and several attacks on their church, Copts in Ezbet Sultan Pasha village, are back worshipping in the small house where they used to meet. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...new church, seven years since closure of previous building Copt’s fields torched after rumours he was turning his house into a church Copts persuaded to drop charges against mob who...

Egypt appoints its first-ever female Coptic governor

August 30, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt, Women

A Coptic church in Cairo - Egypt's Copts account for 10 per cent of the population. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2004)

...jihadist fighters who have specifically targeted the Coptic community. Egypt’s Copts account for around 10 per cent of the population and have come under increased pressure since the ousting of...

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Perpetrators of Minya bus attack and the beheading of Coptic Christians captured in Libya

Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as weapon of war

Egypt’s Copts nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

‘UN must recognise persecution of Christians in Middle East as genocide’

Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report

Closed churches force Copts to hold funerals in the streets

‘World leaders can’t continue to ignore persecution of Copts’

Egypt: Copts’ homes attacked despite advance notice to police of threats

Egypt: Mob attacks prevent Coptic church’s recognition for ‘security’ reasons

Egypt appoints its first-ever female Coptic governor

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