Churches in Egypt: Harassed Islands in a Sea of Mosques
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – According to a May 19, 2021 Arabic-language report, Egypt’s Ministry of Endowments just announced that, since September 2020, 1,413 [...]
Coptic Solidarity Condemns Continued Closure of Coptic Churches
By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity strongly condemns the closure of the Anba Karas building by the police in Sohag, Egypt on April 13, after Muslim mobs repeatedly protested in front [...]
Christians locked out of church building hold third funeral on streets of Egyptian village
By Barnabas Fund – Christians in Egypt were forced to hold a third funeral on the streets of Koum al-Raheb village in the first week of February because their only church building was [...]
Coptic Solidarity Presses for Urgent Protection of Egypt’s Imperiled Coptic Christians
By Coptic Solidarity – Christian Newswire (Washington, DC) December 17, 2018 For Immediate Release Coptic Solidarity urgently calls on the US Department of State and legislators to [...]
Egypt: Mob attack encouraged by police promise ‘No church will be allowed here’
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 [...]
Conciliation, Suspended Sentences For Copts And Muslims In Beni Sweif Village
By Girgis Waheeb – Watani – The State Security Court has handed the nine Copts and 11 Muslims from the village of Meinin, who were charged of mobbing, fighting and possession of [...]
Egyptian mob celebrates blocking application for new church
By World Watch Monitor – Mob rule has stopped hundreds of Christians in a village in Upper Egypt building their first church, World Watch Monitor has learned from local Copts. The nearest [...]
Egypt’s Copts decry recent spate of church closings
By Shahira Amin – Al-Monitor – When a long-awaited law on building and restoring churches went into effect in Egypt in September 2016, several Christian members of parliament hailed [...]
Christians in Egypt Pelted With Rocks in Attack on Town – Four Churches Forced to Shut
By Joey Millar – The Express UK (via AINA) – The coordinated attacks took place in the Egyptian region of Minya, south of Cairo, where church leaders are now pleading for support. [...]
Minya Copts Respond to Church Closings
By POMED – Coptic Christians have called on security forces to increase anti-discrimination efforts after a number of attacks have led to the closing of Coptic churches in Minya. Bishop [...]
