Date of source: Monday, November 23, 2020
The long history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s violence towards Copts began during the 1950s when they destroyed Coptic homes and churches in Suez [al-Suways] and continued under the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule of Egypt in 2012 and afterwards.
Date of source: Thursday, November 19, 2020
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) was established in 2002. Its goal was to strengthen and defend basic rights and freedoms in Egypt. However, since its founding 18 years ago, it has become clear that its real goal was to attack the Egyptian state and constantly try to bring down...
Date of source: Monday, November 16, 2020
The Egyptian Court of Cassation affirmed a ruling by the criminal court calling for the execution of Aḥmad Saʿīd Ibrāhīm al-Sunbāṭī for the murder of Father Samaʿān Shiḥāta Rizq Allāh. This ruling is now final and no longer able to be appealed.
Date of source: Sunday, December 20, 2020
Several unidentified individuals attacked the car of Father Thomas Kāmil, the priest of the Church of the Martyr Dimiyāna in al-Wardiyān, Alexandria. The priest was surprised by the damage of his car and the dents in its roof and doors.
Date of source: Friday, December 18, 2020
On Thursday December 17, the Minya Criminal Court acquitted the three defendants who had stripped naked an elderly Coptic Christian woman, Suʿād Thābit, known in the media as "Lady of al-Karam. The three men had been previously sentenced to ten years each in absentia by the Minya Criminal Court in...
Date of source: Saturday, December 19, 2020
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) expressed great concern about the ruling issued today by the Minya Criminal Court, which acquitted three defendants for stripping Suʿād Thābit, who's known in the media as the ‘Lady of al-Karam’.
Date of source: Sunday, December 13, 2020
His Eminence Bishop Ilarion, bishop of the Churches in Western Alexandria, issued a statement concerning the events of al-Wardiyān, which resulted in the killing of a Copt and the injury of two others. He confirmed that on Thursday, December 10, two brothers, who're known for their thuggery record...
Date of source: Monday, July 6, 2020
The Coptic Orthodox archdiocese of Samālūt headed by Archbishop Pevnotios [Bifnūtiyūs] has announced that it is beginning to prepare on a film called Martyrs of Faith and the Homeland [Shuhadāʾ al-Imān wa al-Waṭan] with the blessings of the Church and Pope Tawāḍrūs II.
Date of source: Friday, October 23, 2020
Copts from the village of al-Rahmāniyyah in Maghāghah, al-Minyā, said that their village was living in peace and harmony until a month ago when a young Coptic man did something wrong that everyone found unacceptable. He left the village for another home in Cairo. However, a week after the...
Date of source: Monday, October 12, 2020
A video being circulated on social media showing Christian children reenacting the kidnapping and execution of Egyptian Copts in Libya in 2015 by ISIS has incited anger after it was reported that it was filmed inside one of the churches.