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By La Croix (via AINA) –  Muslims angered by the presence of a church in a Coptic Christian diocese in Egypt attacked the homes of Christian villagers, resulting in three people being [...]

By Sondos Asem – Middle East Eye –  A Coptic bishop has accused police of ignoring calls to protect Christians ahead of anticipated violence in a village in southern Egypt last [...]

By WorldWatch Monitor –  A Coptic community in Egypt’s Minya governorate, whose church was closed in July following protests by local Muslims, continues to be a target of mob attacks and [...]

By WorldWatch Monitor A mob attacked a church in Minya, Egypt, on 13 July protesting against its legalisation and received a police officer’s approval, World Watch Monitor has learnt from local [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  Copts in a village near the Egyptian city of Alexandria have been persuaded to waive the charges against an extremist mob who pelted their church with Molotov [...]

By Watani –  A church in the village of al-Shuqaf in Housh Eissa in the west Delta province of Beheira was attacked by a mob of Muslim hardliners on Saturday 26 May. The mob also pelted the [...]

By Hadeer El-Mahdawy – Mada Masr – The homes of several Coptic Christians in the Beni Suef village of Beni Menin were set ablaze by Muslim villagers on Monday night in the latest [...]

By Girgis Waheeb – Watani The church of the Holy Virgin and Pope Kyrillos VI in the village of Meimin in al-Fashn, Beni sweif, some 100km south of Cairo, was the target of an attack by [...]