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coptic christians

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  • Egypt confirms death penalty for monks over bishop killing

    Egypt confirms death penalty for monks over bishop killing

    An Egyptian court on Wednesday confirmed death sentences for two monks over the 2018 murder of a bishop, after the country’s Mufti issued an ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt seeks death sentence for two monks over bishop’s murder

    Egypt seeks death sentence for two monks over bishop’s murder

    An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for two monks after they were convicted of murdering a bishop at a monastery last year. ...
    Middle East
  • Egyptian officer killed while defusing bomb near eastern Cairo church

    Egyptian officer killed while defusing bomb near eastern Cairo church

    An Egyptian explosives expert has been killed while he was attempting to defuse a bomb near a church in Cairo, Al Arabiya’s correspondent ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt beefs up security around churches ahead of Coptic Christmas

    Egypt beefs up security around churches ahead of Coptic Christmas

    Egyptian security forces reinforced their presence around churches in the capital and surrounding cities, in preparation of the Coptic Christmas ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt’s Sisi opens mega-mosque and Mideast’s largest cathedral in New Capital

    Egypt’s Sisi opens mega-mosque and Mideast’s largest cathedral in New Capital

    President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Egypt’s largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital on Sunday, the eve of Coptic ...
    Middle East
  • January 7 set to be public holiday in Egypt marking Coptic Christmas

    January 7 set to be public holiday in Egypt marking Coptic Christmas

    Monday will be a public holiday in Egypt to mark Coptic Orthodox Christmas, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday. Prime Minister Mostafa ...
    Middle East
  • Ahead of Coptic Christmas, Egypt creates body to fight ‘sectarian incidents’

    Ahead of Coptic Christmas, Egypt creates body to fight ‘sectarian incidents’

    Egypt’s president has ordered the creation of a committee to tackle “sectarian incidents”, the official gazette said Sunday.The ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt says it thwarted attacks on Copts

    Egypt says it thwarted attacks on Copts

    Egyptian police have killed eight suspected Islamist militants in shootouts in and around Cairo, the interior ministry said Thursday. It said those ...
    Middle East
  • Pope Tawadros II: Saudi Arabia a fundamental pillar for the Arab world

    Pope Tawadros II: Saudi Arabia a fundamental pillar for the Arab world

    The Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church Tawadros II said on Wednesday that the meetings that Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi ...
    Middle East
  • Muslim World League chief receives Egypt’s Coptic Bishop Morcos in Riyadh

    Muslim World League chief receives Egypt’s Coptic Bishop Morcos in Riyadh

    Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Sheikh Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa received in Riyadh on Wednesday Bishop Morcos, the ...
    Gulf
  • Muslim teacher cleaning Egypt church says: ‘I did it for my daughters’

    Muslim teacher cleaning Egypt church says: ‘I did it for my daughters’

    After her initiative to clean a church with the help of her Muslim girl students was met with a lot of praise, the teacher Eng. Heba Saad Hashash ...
    Features
  • Young Egyptian Copt loses his life defending Muslim woman from thief

    Young Egyptian Copt loses his life defending Muslim woman from thief

    Shockwaves spread throughout Egypt the past few weeks following the bravery and chivalry of a young Christian man who lost his life defending a Muslim ...
    Variety
  • IN PICTURES: Egypt’s Minya holds funeral for victims of ISIS terror attack

    IN PICTURES: Egypt’s Minya holds funeral for victims of ISIS terror attack

    Coptic Christians in the Egyptian town of Minya, south of the capital of Cairo, held a funeral on Saturday for the victims of an ISIS-claimed terror ...
    Middle East
  • ISIS claims deadly attack on Egyptian Christians on bus near Coptic monastery

    ISIS claims deadly attack on Egyptian Christians on bus near Coptic monastery

    ISIS terrorist group claimed on Friday evening responsibility for an attack which killed seven people near an Egyptian monastery, the group’s ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt’s Sissi appoints first-ever Christian woman as governor

    Egypt’s Sissi appoints first-ever Christian woman as governor

    Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has sworn in several new provincial governors, including the first-ever Coptic Christian woman to hold ...
    North Africa
  • ANALYSIS: Deadly conflict brews within Coptic Church in Egypt’s Wadi al-Natroun

    ANALYSIS: Deadly conflict brews within Coptic Church in Egypt’s Wadi al-Natroun

    In the early hours of July 29, Bishop Epiphanius, Abbot of Saint Macarius the Great Monastery in Wadi al-Natroun, was found dead in a hallway inside ...
    Features
  • Egypt prosecutors order ex-monk detained over Abbot’s death

    Egypt prosecutors order ex-monk detained over Abbot’s death

    Prosecutors on Saturday ordered a recently defrocked monk to be detained for four days pending an investigation into his alleged involvement in the ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt security forces thwart a suicide attack at church near Cairo

    Egypt security forces thwart a suicide attack at church near Cairo

    Egypt security forces thwarted an attack targeting a church near Cairo on Saturday, state television said. According to media outlets, the security ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt Coptic Church halts entry of monks after mystery death

    Egypt Coptic Church halts entry of monks after mystery death

    Egypt’s Coptic Church said Thursday that it will stop accepting any new monks for a year after the mysterious death of a Bishop at a monastery ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt’s Copts on ‘forbidden’ path to Jerusalem, despite vague pilgrimage ban

    Egypt’s Copts on ‘forbidden’ path to Jerusalem, despite vague pilgrimage ban

    The ban on pilgrimage to Jerusalem is associated to the late Pope Shenouda III who objected to the 1979 Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel and ...
    Features
  • What Egypt’s Azhar and Christian leaders said about the Saudi crown prince

    What Egypt’s Azhar and Christian leaders said about the Saudi crown prince

    Al-Azhar Coptic Christian leaders in Egypt told Al Arabiya.net that during his visit to Egypt, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was direct, ...
    Gulf
  • Coptic Church says Saudi crown prince ‘disturbs roots of regional extremism’

    Coptic Church says Saudi crown prince ‘disturbs roots of regional extremism’

    Paul Halim, the Coptic Church's spokesman in Egypt, said on Monday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman disturbs the roots of extremism in the ...
    Gulf
  • Egyptian court sentences 16 over Church raid

    Egyptian court sentences 16 over Church raid

    An Egyptian court on Wednesday gave 15 people one-year suspended jail sentences over a December attack on an unlicensed Coptic Church in a village ...
    Middle East
  • Is reopening of Egypt’s ‘unlicensed’ churches a step toward sectarian stability?

    Is reopening of Egypt’s ‘unlicensed’ churches a step toward sectarian stability?

    The Egyptian Ministry of Housing has issued a decree allowing Christians to perform their prayers in unlicensed churches until they obtain permits as ...
    Features
  • Egypt tightens security ahead of Coptic Christmas

    Egypt tightens security ahead of Coptic Christmas

    Tens of thousands of soldiers and police have been deployed across Egypt to protect minority Christians and their churches on the eve of Orthodox ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt files murder charges against man held for Coptic church attack

    Egypt files murder charges against man held for Coptic church attack

    Egypt’s public prosecutor has filed murder charges against a man accused of killing 11 people in an attack on a Coptic church and a ...
    Middle East
  • Egypt detains 15 after attack on Coptic church in Cairo

    Egypt detains 15 after attack on Coptic church in Cairo

    Egyptian authorities have detained 15 people pending an investigation into an attack on an unlicensed Coptic Christian church in a village south of ...
    Middle East
  • IN PICTURES: Details emerge on Egypt church attack after Friday prayer

    IN PICTURES: Details emerge on Egypt church attack after Friday prayer

    Egyptian extremists stormed and destroyed a church in a village in al-Jazeera governorate preventing Copts from performing prayer. The attack took ...
    Features
  • Egypt on high alert ahead of Christmas celebrations

    Egypt on high alert ahead of Christmas celebrations

    Egypt’s Interior Ministry has ordered 230, 000 police officers to secure churches ahead of Christmas celebrations across the nation. A senior ...
    Middle East
  • Copts call for action over church closures in southern Egypt

    Copts call for action over church closures in southern Egypt

    Coptic Christians in the south of Egypt renewed calls on local authorities for an end to discrimination, after a number of churches have been closed ...
    Features
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