Terrorist threat forces Egyptian Christians to cancel summer activities
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 and events for the next three weeks,” Dr Andrea Zaki, president of the Protestant Churches of Egypt, told World Watch Monitor. “There is news they could be targeted by […]
Four more Copts killed amid “most aggressive campaign in history of modern Egypt”
World Watch Monitor Coptic Christians in Egypt are reeling from a fresh spate of murders, which they fear are part of a jihadist campaign against them. Three Coptic men were found dead in the space of eight days from the last week of June to the first week of July. A fourth was killed in […]
EGYPT: COPTS FACE DUAL CHALLENGES OF EXTREMISM AND SECTARIANISM
World Watch Monitor reports on situation facing Coptic Christians in Egypt…
Eighth El-Arish Copt killed in targeted attack in Egypt’s Sinai
World Watch Monitor The funeral service of Nabil Mansour at Mar Girgis church in Kozzika, Helwan. PICTURE: World Watch 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 was shot dead by four masked men on 6th May. Mansour, 40, was […]
Pope Francis tells Egyptian Christians to show extremism only in love of others
RNS Pope Francis is greeted by children in Cairo, Egypt. PICTURE: Osservatore Romano/Handout via Reuters Pope Francis has urged Egypt’s embattled Christian minority to show extremism only in forgiving those who wrong them and to avoid the temptation of acting like a “pharaoh” by ignoring the needs of their neighbors. On Saturday, 29th April, the […]
Pope Francis tells Muslim leaders in Egypt to fight violence in God’s name
RNS Pope Francis, right, embraces Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb during a meeting in Cairo, Egypt. PICTURE: Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi Pope Francis used the political capital he has built up with the Islamic world to issue a powerful condemnation of religion-inspired violence, calling on Muslim leaders to unite against terrorist acts carried out in […]
EGYPT: WEARY COPTS URGE POPE FRANCIS TO CHALLENGE SISI OVER ATTACKS AND CHRONIC DISCRIMINATION
World Watch Monitor reports on the hopes of Egypt’s Coptic Christians ahead of Pope Francis’ visit this weekend…
Coptic boy, 16, “murdered by Islamic extremists seeking to scare Christians”
World Watch Monitor An Egyptian Christian boy murdered on Holy Thursday (13th April) was killed by Islamic extremists hoping to further intimidate Christians in the run up to Easter, say his family. Allam Bashay Gabriel found his 16-year-old son, Gamal, with his throat slit and lying in a pool of blood, in Qai village, Upper […]
Rage at abandonment by the state as Egypt’s Christians dig graves after bombing
RNS/Reuters Relatives of victims react next to coffins arriving to the Coptic church that was bombed on Sunday in Tanta, Egypt. PICTURE: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany Egyptian Christians wept with rage on Monday as they recovered the bodies of loved ones killed in twin church bombings, furious at a state they believe will no longer […]
PILGRIMAGES: EGYPT’S COPTS FINALLY FULFILLING ‘DREAM’ OF TRAVELLING TO JERUSALEM
JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER and MINA NADER, of Religion News Service, report on how Egypt’s Coptic Christians are once again making pilgrimages to Jerusalem…