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Tag: Helwan

Egypt: Eleven men sent for trial for attacking Copts

December 20, 2018 Egypt Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Helwan, Islamic State
A funeral is held for the eight victims of the attack on the Mar Mina Church in Helwan on 29 December last year. Photo: Getty Images)
Eleven men suspected of an attack Coptic Christians in Egypt’s capital Cairo a year ago will have to appear before a criminal court, reports Coptic news site Watani. The suspects were caught by police following a double attack on the Mar Mina and Pope Kyrillos VI Coptic Orthodox Church in the . . . Read More

Coptic Christians harassed for drinking water during Ramadan fasting hours

  June 13, 2018 Egypt Asyut, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Helwan, Islamic extremism, Ramadan, Sharia
Coptic Christians harassed for drinking water during Ramadan fasting hours
In one of three incidents reported to World Watch Monitor, an Egyptian photographer was detained by police for carrying a bottle of water during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims are required not to eat or drink anything from the first light of dawn until sunset. He claims . . . Read More

Egypt: brothers shot dead ahead of Coptic Christmas

  January 2, 2018 Egypt Cairo, Christmas, Copts, Giza, Helwan, Islamic State
Egypt: brothers shot dead ahead of Coptic Christmas
Two brothers helping a Coptic Christian shop owner were shot dead on New Year’s Day in Giza, Greater Cairo. The men, who owned a car-parts shop next door, had been helping to stock the shop with alcohol, reported Al Arabiya. The Christian brothers were killed when a gunman pulled up . . . Read More

Machine-gun ambush kills Christians leaving church near Cairo

  December 29, 2017 Egypt Bishop Angaelos, Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Helwan, Islamic State
Preparations for memorial services following the Dec. 29 attack on Mar Mina church in Helwan, south of Cairo. (Photo via Twitter / @auscma)
This version contains updated information about the details of the attack, and comments from witnesses contacted by World Watch Monitor. Several Christians were gunned down as they left church services on the morning of 29 December near the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the Coptic Church and various government authorities reported. At . . . Read More

Bomb found outside Cairo church

May 30, 2017 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Cairo, Copts, El-Arish, Helwan, Islamic State, Minya, Port Said
Bomb found outside Cairo church
A bomb was found outside an Egyptian church just south of the capital, Cairo, yesterday (29 May), according to Coptic news site Watani. A guard reportedly found the bomb inside a paper box by the gate to the Anba-Barsoum al-Erian Monastery, in the Greater Cairo city of Helwan, and “quickly . . . Read More

Sinai: eighth El-Arish Copt killed in targeted attack

  May 8, 2017 Egypt Copts, Helwan, Islamic State, Port Said, Sinai
Sinai: eighth El-Arish Copt killed in targeted attack
Nabil Saber Ayoub Mansour became the eighth Egyptian Coptic Christian to be murdered in El-Arish, northern Sinai, this year in what appear to be linked killings. He was shot dead by four masked men on 6 May. Mansour, 40, was in El-Arish for a brief visit (contrary to media reports that said he had returned . . . Read More

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