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Despite setbacks for Islamic State, Egypt’s Coptic Christians remain at risk

By Sean Savage – JNS – As the Islamic State terror group faces setbacks in Syria and Iraq, its affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has turned its sights on the region’s small Coptic [...]

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Tally of Coptic families displaced from al-Arish

Nader Shukry – Watani International Egyptian Ministry of Solidarity has reported that until today the number of families displaced from the North Sinai town of al-Arish has reached 355. [...]

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Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Speaks on the Future of Christians in the Middle East

By Bar Daisan – AINA News –  The future of Christians in the Middle East was the subject of a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, held on 17-19 of February. Organized [...]

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Egypt: Facing sectarianism in the short and long term

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online – It’s no wonder the terrorist attacks on Christian families in Sinai last week sparked such anger and so much sympathy and solidarity with the [...]

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Egyptian Journalist: Discrimination Of Egyptian Copts The Result Of Fanaticism In Education System

By – MEMRI – Following the expulsion by ISIS of Coptic families from their homes in north Sinai,[1] Egyptian journalist Fathia Al-Dakhakhni wrote an article in the daily Al-Masri [...]

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Copts Flee Sinai Amid ISIS Campaign Of Murder, Threats

By R. Green – MEMRI –  The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click [...]

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L’exode ou la mort : les chrétiens fuient le Nord-Sinaï par centaines

Isabelle Cousturie – Aleteia –  Après la vague d’homicides annoncée par Daesh, les familles chrétiennes s’enfuient par centaines et confirment “la chasse aux [...]

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Anger and desperation accompany Copts from their homes in Arish to Ismailia

By Karoline Kamel – Mada Masr – The fate of Sinai’s Coptic Christians is held between a church that closed its doors to them and a state that intervened too late The sounds of crows [...]

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Egypt’s Christians flee terror in north Sinai security void

By Brian Rohan – Associated Press – After Islamic militants barged into his uncle’s house, shot him and his son dead, then looted the place and set it on fire, Said Sameh Adel [...]

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All Art Is “Immoral,” Says “Moderate” Sheikh Al Azhar

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic Solidarity – Art has a largely negative impact on human morality. So says Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s Al Azhar madrassa [...]