Hidden writing in ancient desert monastery manuscripts
By Fleur Macdonald – BBC News For a monk who lives in the Sinai desert in Egypt, in the world’s oldest working monastery, Father Justin replies to emails very speedily. It should come [...]
ISIS Steps Up Threats To Tourists, Christians, Government, Military In Egypt As Elections Approach
By MEMRI – Ahead of the Egyptian presidential elections (slated for March 26-28), and in light of the large-scale campaign launched by the Egyptian military against its presence in Egypt [...]
The Peril of Saudi Expansion in the Gulf of Aqaba
By Cynthia Farahat – American Thinker – Originally published under the title “Gulf of Aqaba Treaty: a Saudi Repudiation of the Camp David Accords.” After more than a year [...]
Coptic Christians Targeted By ISIS Say Egyptian Government Not Helping
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 [...]
Sinai: eighth El-Arish Copt killed in targeted attack
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 [...]
Islamists shoot dead Arish Copt who returned home
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 [...]
Ancient Sinai monastery targeted by Islamic militants in Egypt a week after Coptic church bombings
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Egypt Defends Its Human Rights Record at UN Body
By – POMED – According to a Ministry statement [Ar], Shoukry also emphasized that the UNHRC must respect cultural diversity in discussing human rights and cannot selectively target [...]
