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By Jayson Casper – World Watch Monitor The churches of Egypt are temporarily shutting down their summer activities. “I asked all our churches and conference centres to cancel their trips [...]

By Mariam Ibrahim – Mada Masr – Is a religious narrative that frames the killing of Copts as God’s will at odds with mounting resistance to sectarian attacks? “We never dreamed [...]

By World Watch Monitor – A fifth Copt has been murdered in Egypt in six weeks, aggravating fears among Christians that Islamist extremists are targeting them with impunity. Nadra Mounir, [...]

By Dr. George Gurguis, MD – President, Coptic Solidarity – The decent into chaos that Egypt was heading for under the Muslim Brotherhood rule and President Morsi was averted by [...]

By Stoyan Zaimov – Christian Post (via AINA) – Coptic Christian families from North Sinai in Egypt, who have been displaced following numerous attacks by the Islamic State terror [...]

By WorldWatch Monitor –  Nabil Saber Ayoub Mansour became the eighth Egyptian Coptic Christian to be murdered in El-Arish, northern Sinai, this year in what appear to be linked killings. He [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani International –  The Copt Nabil Saber Fawzy, 40, who was among the Copts who had fled the North Sinai town of al-Arish last February, went back home less than [...]

By Reuters –  Islamic State’s leader in Egypt has warned Muslims to stay away from Christian gatherings as well as government, military and police facilities, suggesting that the [...]

By The Guardian – Pope Francis heads to Cairo for peace mission after spate of church bombings, as Isis proclaims Christians its ‘favourite prey’ Rami Yasser Labib was at home when he heard [...]

By James Macintyre – Christian Today Islamist gunmen attacked security forces near St Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s south Sinai yesterday, killing at least one police officer [...]