Coptic Christians

Egyptian police refuse to protect Coptic Christians during gun and machete attack on mourners at cathedral

April 30, 2013 Featured News

  LEON WATSON - 30/4/13 Men with guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones laid siege to cathedral Uniformed officers looked on and appeared to help one gunman take aim Worshippers were streaming out of service held for victims of earlier clash It follows increase in tensions between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims A shocking video has emerged that appears to [...]

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Protest over Christian persecution in Egypt outside House of Lords

April 23, 2013 Featured News

Alexandra Geels 23/4/13 LONDON, UK April 21: Enraged demonstrators condemned persecution of Coptic Christians outside the House of Lords during a protest demonstration organised by Coptic United on Saturday. Coptic clerics, Human rights activists, leaders of like-minded organisations including Global Minorities Alliance (GMA), a Glasgow-based Human rights organisation’s Chief Executive, Sheraz Khan and others participated [...]

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Egypt jihadist leader warns of Coptic ‘triumph’

April 22, 2013 Featured News
Salafist lead Mohamed El-Zawahiri presents his views on the compatibility of Islam and Islamic Sharia law (Photo: Al-Ahram)

Ahram Online – 22/4/13 Brother of Al-Qaeda leader warns Egypt’s Coptic Christians could take advantage of instability and failure to implement Islamic Sharia law. Mohamed El-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman El-Zawahiri, has warned that the current instability in Egypt is “fertile ground for minorities [Coptic Christians] to ‘triumph’.” Speaking on the ‘El-Hadath El-Masry’ [...]

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Canada’s first Coptic bishop enthroned in Mississauga

April 8, 2013 News

David Paterson 7/4/13 For anyone who doubted they were watching an historic occasion, a quick scan of the enormous crowd at Mississauga’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral on Saturday would have persuaded them otherwise. Over the sea people crammed into the cathedral on Eglinton Ave. were held aloft smart phones, iPads, cameras — anything that could capture [...]

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Clashes after funeral of Egypt Coptic Christians

April 7, 2013 Featured News

7/4/13 CAIRO: Clashes broke out on Sunday outside the Egyptian capital’s Coptic cathedral after funeral prayers were held for four Christians killed in sectarian clashes, witnesses said. They said the mourners who were chanting against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood were pelted with stones as they came out of the cathedral. In a statement, the interior ministry said [...]

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Egyptian Christians losing sense of home

April 1, 2013 Featured News

Charles M. Sennott 1/4/13 This is the third in a series of posts about dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. CAIRO — Down the narrow warrens of the gritty neighborhood of Shoubra, past the bakeries and butcher shops adorned with pictures of the new Coptic pope and ancient martyrs and saints, the Church of [...]

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Libyan Coptic church suffers second attack

March 16, 2013 Featured News

15/3/13 For the second time in a week a Coptic Christian church in Benghazi, Libya, has been attacked. Police say they prevented the unidentified attackers from causing more serious damage. It appears the arsonists were angry about a protest in front of the Libyan embassy in Cairo, Egypt by Coptic Christians, who burned the Libyan [...]

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Syrian and Coptic Christians Fleeing to Moscow, But Russia Lacks Shelters

February 7, 2013 News

Assyrian International News Agency -  Nina Achmatova Asia News 7/2/13 Moscow — A flow of refugees from Syria and Egypt is pouring into Moscow to escape from wars and violence in their country of origin bringing to light the inadequacy of facilities for the reception of immigrants in Russia. The complaint has been made by a [...]

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Sectarian unrest grips Egypt, Islamists try to storm Coptic church

January 20, 2013 Featured News

By  Haggag Salama - 20/1/13 Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters trying to storm a Coptic Christian church in southern Egypt on Friday, after a word spread that a Christian man sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl. Witnesses in Marashda village in the province of Qena said several shops and cars owned by [...]

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Egypt’s Coptic Christians fleeing country after Islamist takeover

January 14, 2013 Featured News

By Richard Spencer, Alexandria 14/1/13 Tens of thousands of Egyptian Christians are leaving the country in the wake of  the Egyptian revolution and subsequent Islamist takeover of politics, priests  and community leaders say. Coptic Christian churches in the United States say they are having to expand to cope with new arrivals, as priests in cities [...]

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Egypt’s New Constitution Gives Coptic Christians a Bleak and Unstable Future

December 24, 2012 News

24/12/12 Egyptians have approved a controversial new constitution. According to reports, Egyptians have endorsed the new charter in the two-stage referendum; the approved charter gives Islamists the mandate to decide the future of Egypt which has a considerable Christian population and other minorities. The new constitution drafted by a predominant Islamist group, which excluded the [...]

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Bishop Tawadros new pope of Egypt’s Coptic Christians

November 4, 2012 Featured News

4/11/2012 Bishop Tawadros has been chosen as the new pope of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, becoming leader of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. His name was selected from a glass bowl by a blindfolded boy at a ceremony in Cairo’s St Mark’s Cathedral. Three candidates had been shortlisted. The 60-year-old succeeds Pope Shenouda [...]

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Living in fear: Coptic Christians in Egypt

October 17, 2012 News

Dr. Ashraf Ramelah 16/10/2012 As al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for renewed protests against the U.S. and Israel in the wake of reaction to the film about Mohammed, it is the ancient Christian community of Egypt, the Copts, who are in the greatest immediate danger. Ashraf Ramelah, a Coptic leader, describes how Copts are dealing [...]

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Morsi Meets Coptic Christians in Sinai

October 6, 2012 Featured News

Elad Benari, Canada 6/10/2012 Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi meets with Coptic families who fled from the town of Rafiah after receiving death threats. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi visited the Sinai Peninsula on Friday to meet with and reassure Coptic families who fled from the town of Rafiah after receiving death threats, his Facebook page said, [...]

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Canadian Coptic Christian demands police protection, says he fears for his life

September 22, 2012 Featured News

The Canadian Press 22/9/2012 TORONTO – A Canadian Coptic Christian says he fears for his life and wants police protection after Egypt issued an arrest warrant for him, alleging he was involved in a controversial film. Nader Fawzy, one of two Canadians named in Egyptian warrants in connection with the film “Innocence of Muslims,” says [...]

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Q&A: Coptic Christians on Film Sparking Protests

September 17, 2012 Featured News

17/9/2012 By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The key figure behind “Innocence of Muslims,” a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, says he is Coptic Christian. The film has sparked protests in the Middle East and is implicated in an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and other Americans. Here’s a look [...]

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Coptic Christians remain in eye of the storm as protests subside

September 17, 2012 Featured News

Charles M. Sennott 17/9/2012 Egypt’s minority Christians remain in the eye of the storm of anti-American unrest in Egypt and across the Middle East. After US authorities identified the key figure behind a crude film that denigrates Islam as a Coptic Christian of Egyptian origin living in Los Angeles, Copts in Egypt were bracing all [...]

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Coptic Christian church condemns film, fearing backlash

September 13, 2012 News

13/9/2012 WASHINGTON: The Coptic Christian church condemned the film that has triggered violent protests in Muslim countries on Wednesday, reflecting fears of a backlash after Copts were blamed for promoting the film. The film enraged protesters in Cairo who stormed the embassy on Tuesday and was also linked to the later attack on the US [...]

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Intolerance is rife in Islamic lands

August 10, 2012 News

STEVE HUNTLEY shuntley.cst@gmail.com 9/8/2012 As the horrific attack on the Sikh temple in Wisconsin showed, no society is secure from the occasional outrage by a violent bigot. As a new report from the State Department demonstrates, too many governments around the world practice, countenance or acquiesce to repugnant and even deadly religious repression, and many [...]

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Worldview: Copts in Egypt are watching and worrying

July 27, 2012 News

Samia Sidhom , managing editor of Watani, a newspaper for Egypt’s Coptic Christians, in her Cairo office. “There is a feeling that democracy has been a disaster for us,” she says. TRUDY RUBIN / Staff Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist 26/7/2012 Among the biggest losers from the current Arab political upheavals are the Christian minorities [...]

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Coptic Christians Praying for Egypt’s Believers

June 26, 2012 News

25/6/2012 A Coptic Christian leader in the United States and his flock are praying for fellow believers in Egypt. Bishop David of the Coptic Christian Association of North America said he’s hopeful Mohammed Morsi will allow Christians to worship freely. Most Copts supported the secular candidate out of concern that the Muslim Brotherhood will institute [...]

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Egypt Sentences 12 Coptic Christians to Life in Prison

May 23, 2012 Featured News

Assyrian International News Agency 22/5/2012 On 21 May, Egypt’s State Security Council sentenced 12 Christians to life in prison and acquitted eight Muslims. The Christians were found guilty of sowing public strife, possession of illegal weapons, and killing two Muslims in an April 2011 episode of violence that took place in Minya province, about 220 [...]

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Coptic Christians among Jersey City faith groups helping 25 West Point cadets deepen appreciation for other cultures

May 15, 2012 News

By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal File News 28/4/2012 After a tour of Ellis Island and a lunch featuring Egyptian cuisine hosted by a Coptic Orthodox Church, 25 West Point cadets visited the church on Bergen Avenue to learn about Coptic history and the church’s role in the community. The next stop for the cadets who [...]

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Coptic Christians call for divorce law relaxation

April 24, 2012 Featured News
Christians protesters demand the right of divorce and second marriages in July 2011

Al Ahram Online 23/4/2012 Coptic 38 – a group founded to demand liberalisation of divorce laws by Coptic Christian Church – calls for reimplementation of 1938 bylaws that permit divorce under 9 conditions. A Coptic Christian group called Coptic 38, established in 2011 to campaign for changes to the Church’s divorce laws, held a press [...]

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Coptic Christians celebrate Easter without Pope Shenouda

April 17, 2012 Featured News
Pope Shenouda’s III died on March 17, leaving the Coptic community without its well-loved and active leader. (Reuters)

By CLAIRE READ AL ARABIYA CAIRO 17/4/2012 Coptic Christians celebrate gathered to celebrate Easter but this year’s celebrations have been more subdued out of respect for Pope Shenouda’s III passing. Easter Sunday festivities were canceled and the Saturday night vigil from the Coptic cathedral was not projected in the streets outside the other churches of [...]

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