Tag: Sinai

Copts flee El-Arish after sixth murder in month

February 24, 2017 Egypt Cairo, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic State, Mohamed Morsi, Sinai, Suez

Egyptian Christians are beginning to flee Sinai’s largest city, El-Arish, after yet another Copt was killed there, reports Watani. Kamel Youssef, a 40 year old plumber, yesterday (23 Feb) became the latest victim, according to AP, which said militants stormed his home and shot him dead in front of his . . . Read More

‘IS’ kills Coptic father and son in Sinai

February 22, 2017 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic State, Sinai

Two more Coptic Christians have been killed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security officials said suspected militants were responsible, as AP reports. This comes days after the Islamic State threatened to wipe out Christians from Egypt and following the murder of two other Copts in Sinai. Saad Hana, 65, was . . . Read More

Another Copt killed ‘by Islamic State’ in Sinai

February 16, 2017 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Sinai

A Coptic Christian teacher has been killed in the city of El-Arish in Egypt’s North Sinai province, four days after the murder of a Coptic vet. Gamal Tawfiq, 50, was gunned down on his way to school this morning (16 Feb), reports AP. His murder follows that of Bahgat Zakhar . . . Read More

‘Coptic’ vet assassinated ‘by IS affiliates’

February 15, 2017 Egypt Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic State, Sinai

A vet believed to be a Coptic Christian was shot dead in Egypt’s increasingly lawless North Sinai province, according to reports. The state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported that the man was Coptic and came under heavy fire from unknown assailants as he left his clinic in a suburb of North Sinai’s . . . Read More

Islamic State kills priest in Sinai

July 1, 2016 Egypt Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic State, Minya, Mohamed Morsi, Sinai

A Coptic Orthodox priest was shot dead yesterday morning (30 June) in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula by Islamist militants. Fr. Raphael Moussa, 46, was shot four times in the head from a passing taxi as he stood next to his car in Arish, the capital of northern Sinai. The priest was . . . Read More

Sinai Christian shot after ‘confessing’ his faith

May 10, 2016 Egypt Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Copts, Egypt, El-Arish, Islamic extremism, Sinai

A Coptic civil servant was killed in Sinai, Egypt, after his vehicle was stopped and passengers were asked if any “Christian infidels” were on board. Messak Nasralla, 58, was going about his business as a government medical supplier when he was found dead last week, south of Arish, reports in . . . Read More

Photo exhibition by Sinai slaves

February 24, 2014 Ethiopia, Human rights, London, Sinai, Women

Three Ethiopian women kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Sinai desert have used photography to portray their ordeals. Zenebech Zeleke, a Christian, said: “There are many ways to tell my story to other people, to tell about these types of journeys, and if we can do it using photography, . . . Read More

Monastery closure hits Sinai economy

September 5, 2013 Egypt Egypt, Sinai

Residents of the Sinai city of St. Catherine have complained they are struggling to survive following the closure of the city’s 1,500-year-old monastery two months ago, reports Al-Monitor. Egypt’s government ordered the monastery shut in early July after suspicions it was to be attacked. This is only the third time . . . Read More

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