Updated: Fire at Cairo Coptic church kills 41, including at least 15 children
Last updated: 8:30am, 15th August, 2022Cairo, Egypt Reuters A fire ripped through a packed Coptic Orthodox church during morning services in Egypt’s capital on Sunday, quickly filling it with thick black smoke and killing 41 worshippers, including at least 15 children. Several trapped congregants jumped from upper floors of the Martyr Abu Sefein church to […]
Egypt refers man accused of killing Coptic priest to trial
Cairo, Egypt AP Egyptian prosecutors Tuesday referred a man to trial for allegedly stabbing to death a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab World’s most populous country. The public prosecution said in a statement the suspect was accused of killing the priest earlier this month at the popular seaside promenade in the […]
Coptic Orthodox Church: In the California desert, a monastery welcomes visitors again
LIZA VANDENBOOM ASHLEY, writing for Religion Unplugged, visits the first Coptic monastery in the United States – the second oldest in the world outside Egypt…
ESSAY: MUBARAK’S LASTING LEGACY ON EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS
In an article first published on The Conversation, JAMALI RAMAZAN KILINC, associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska Omaha in the US, looks at the history of the fraught relationships between the Coptic Church and those in power in Egypt…
Church shut, priests evicted from Coptic church in Egypt after mob gathered – reports
Morning Star News Police in Upper Egypt evicted Coptic priests and shuttered their church building after an Islamist mob converged on the site over the weekend, according to reports. Muslim villagers in Manshiyet Zaafarna, Minya Governorate, attacked the church of Mar-Giris (St George) at 1:30pm on Friday, after mosque noon prayers, according to a statement […]
Coptic bishop found dead
World Watch Monitor A Coptic bishop has been found dead inside a desert monastery in Egypt’s Beheira governorate, with the circumstances of his death still unknown, reports AP. Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was the head of St Macarius Monastery, which is situated near the town of Wadi El Naturn, 100 kilometres north-west of Cairo, and is the […]
At least nine dead in attacks on Copts in Egypt
At least nine people were killed in two attacks – one outside a Coptic church – in a community just south of Cairo on Friday morning. Reports said that at least one gunman attempted to break through security barriers at the Mar Mina Church in the Helwan district, leading to a shoot-out in which at least six […]
BACKGROUNDER: WHO ARE THE COPTS AND WHY ARE THEY PERSECUTED?
MONIQUE EL-FAIZY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, takes a deeper look at the Copts…