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‘Sad Day’ in Algeria as Officials Seal Buildings of Country’s Largest Churches

By Morning Star News – Authorities in Algeria on Wednesday (Oct. 16) closed the Tafath (Light) church building in Tizi-Ouzou, a day after sealing shut the country’s largest church despite [...]

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Fire destroys church in Helwan, claims no lives

By Sheri Abdel-Massih -Madeleine Nader -Michael Girgis – Watani – A fire that erupted late on the evening of Sunday 13 October in the church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in Helwan, some [...]

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Syria’s Christians are suffering in silence

By Spectator US– The White House’s decision to move aside and allow a Turkish assault in northeast Syria highlighted the morass that is the US’s foreign policy in the Middle East. Criticism [...]

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Coptic bishop calls on Christians to promote unity after years of ‘turmoil’

By Christian Today – The Coptic bishop of London, bishop Angeolos, has called on Christians to be “an icon of what it is to be one in our diversity” at a time when Britain and [...]

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Egypt: friends fear family may have killed ex-teacher of Islam after he became Christian

By World Watch Monitor – Friends of a 40 year-old Egyptian who converted from Islam to Christianity believe that his premature death on 4th October is linked to numerous threats he received [...]

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Egypt Curbs Online Dissent With Street Searches: ‘He Asked to See My Phone’

By the Wall Street Journal – In their campaign against unrest, police are imposing random searches of digital devices as they step up arrests CAIRO—Egyptian authorities are combining [...]

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Egypt Is Using Apps to Track and Target Its Citizens, Report Says

By Ronen Bergman and Declan Walsh – The New York Times – A series of sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Egyptian journalists, academics, lawyers, opposition politicians and human rights [...]

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Egypt’s speaker praises Hitler to justify government spending

By BBC– Egypt’s parliamentary speaker has sparked outrage online after praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s infrastructure projects. Ali Abdel Aal made the comments while [...]

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A presidential directive to freeze Parliament

By Mada Masr – Parliamentary and security sources told Mada Masr that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a directive to freeze the operations of Parliament, as the president is [...]

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Symbol of 2011 Egyptian uprising (re)arrested amid crackdown on protests

By Financial Times – Activist held after reporting to police station. Egyptian authorities have arrested an activist who was an icon of the 2011 revolution as part of a sweeping crackdown to [...]