Egypt’s parliamentary vote likely to tighten leader’s grip
Cairo, EgyptAP Egyptians cast ballots Saturday in the first stage of the country’s parliamentary election, a vote which is highly likely to produce a toothless lower chamber packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. The election took place place as the Arab world’s most populous country faces a slight increase in coronavirus cases, with authorities […]
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: A COVENANT TO ENSLAVE? NOT AT ALL, PART II
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at Galatians 4:21-31 – and what Paul’s refereces to Abraham’s two sons are all about…
Sinai militants pledge to ‘kill more Copts’ after murdering man over cross tattoo in Egypt
World Watch Monitor Bassem Herz Attalhah was 27. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor Militants belonging to the ‘State of Sinai’ group in Egypt have promised to “kill more Copts” after murdering a 27-year-old Coptic man because of the tattoo of a cross on his wrist. Bassem Herz Attalhah, also known as Haythem Shehata, was on his […]
Breaking: At least 235 killed in attack on mosque in Egypt’s Sinai
At least 235 people have been killed following an attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt’s Sinai region. Islamist militants reportedly set off a bomb before opening fire on people attending Friday afternoon prayers at the Al Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abed, some 40 kilometres from the North Sinai provincial capital of el-Arish. The gunman […]
Egyptian police foil latest terrorist attack on Coptic church in Sinai
World Watch Monitor An attack on a Coptic church in north-eastern Egypt, which was also targeted during the wave of anti-Christian violence in August, 2013, has been repelled by state security forces stationed outside the building. The heavy security presence outside the Mar Girgis (St George) church in El-Arish, which had the use of an […]
Egyptian police foil latest terrorist attack on Coptic church in Sinai
World Watch Monitor An attack on a Coptic church in north-eastern Egypt, which was also targeted during the wave of anti-Christian violence in August, 2013, has been repelled by state security forces stationed outside the building. The heavy security presence outside the Mar Girgis (St George) church in El-Arish, which had the use of an […]
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 […]
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 […]