Priest dies from stabbing on seaside promenade in Egypt
A knife-wielding man mortally wounded a Coptic priest during an attack at the popular seaside promenade in Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt’s interior ministry said.
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by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Church, Egypt, murdered priest, News | 0 |
A knife-wielding man mortally wounded a Coptic priest during an attack at the popular seaside promenade in Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt’s interior ministry said.
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Egypt’s president on Wednesday swore in the first-ever Coptic Christian to head the country’s highest court.
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Egyptian authorities on Sunday executed a defrocked monk convicted of killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo, officials said.
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Egypt police killed three suspected militants allegedly involved in the slaying of a Coptic Christian man kidnapped more than five months ago in a restive part of Sinai Peninsula, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
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An Egyptian criminal court acquitted three Muslim men accused of stripping naked an elderly Coptic Christian woman and parading her through the streets of a village in southern Egypt in 2016, the state’s official news agency reported.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2020 | Christian persecution, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Christians, Coptic Church, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, International Christian Concern, Interviews, lead, News | 0 |
On October 5, 2020, a mob of Islamic extremists attacked the homes of Coptic Christians in the Egyptian village of Dabous, located in the Upper Egypt region of Minya.
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The Coptic Church is struggling to deal with clerical sexual abuse.
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