International Christian Concern | August 24, 2020 Egyptian officials have forced a Coptic Christian family living in Hawarat village (Fayoum Province) to vacate their properties and leave the village, according…
UCA News | August 17, 2020 An international Christian charity has claimed that discrimination against Christians increased around the world after the coronavirus pandemic. For authoritarian governments, which already limit…
International Christian Concern | Emma Reeves | August 12, 2020 Egypt’s Christians exist within a delicate environment, where one misstep could lead to a loss of life or livelihood. Hypervigilance…
Express | BRIAN MCGLEENON | June 9, 2020 Egyptian authorities demolished a Christian church building and the mosque that was built next to it in the town of Koum Al-Farag. The church had…
Mercatornet | William Huang | May 27, 2020 After months of restrictions and a war of words between bishops, pastors and governments, church services have finally returned to parts of…
International Christian Concern | May 6, 2020 COVID-19 has brought the globe to a grinding halt. But as each country addresses the pandemic, new trends are emerging which could provide…
MEO | April 15, 2020 An Egyptian policeman and seven suspected militants were killed late on Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire after the ministry of interior received information about…
Save the Persecuted Christians | Mar. 2, 2020 Five Years After 21 Christian Men Were Beheaded in Libya, Plight Remains Desperate for Believers in Egypt WASHINGTON—Upon the death of 91-year-old…
Crux | Christopher White | Nov. 27, 2019 Inside the offices of Bishop Anba Makarios, leader of the Orthodox Coptic Christians in Al Minya, Egypt. (Credit: Christopher White/Crux.) AL MINYA,…
Known Extremist Targeted Christian Family at Upper Egypt Home International Christian Concern | Nov. 21, 2019 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on November 17, 2019, a Christian family…
Associated Press | Oct. 28, 2019 CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors have referred 10 policemen to trial, three years after allegedly torturing a street vendor to death. No date for…
July 20, 2019 | Raymond Ibrahim Coptic Solidarity (CS), an international human rights organization devoted to ameliorating the plight of Egypt’s indigenous inhabitants—the Christian Copts—recently published a comprehensive report on…
Muslim extremists ransack his parents’ home. CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A young Coptic Christian man has been arrested near Cairo, Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam after a hacker posted material…
Christians Targeted in Upper Egyptian Village Following Conversion Case 06/06/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on June 5, 2019, anti-Christian mob violence sparked in…
International Christian Concern | Jan. 8, 2019 Growing up in Egypt as the son of an Islamic Sheikh, Mohamed’s life was filled with religion. As a Sheikh, his father was…
Christian Today | Jan. 7, 2019 President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Egypt's largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, in a…
New Jersey Herald | Jan. 6, 2019 Islamic militants on Thursday kidnapped a Christian man traveling in a communal taxi in the turbulent north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula, according to…
France 24 - Jan. 5, 2019 A policeman was killed and two wounded in an explosion outside a church in Egypt on Saturday, a security source said. The blast took…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 24, 2018 A report recently released by the Project on Middle East Democracy details how Egypt’s 2016 church legalization law has had a minimal positive…
International Christian Concern |Dec. 22, 2018 Nearly a year ago, on December 29th, ICC reported about a terrorist attack against an Egyptian church in Helwan City. One of the attackers was wearing…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 21, 2018 Earlier this month, ICC reportedhow the Christians in Upper Egypt’s village of Kom al-Raheb were targeted by mob violence because they were praying in…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 19, 2018 Criminal charges are pending against Egyptian police officer Rabi Mustapha Khalifa after he shot and killed two Coptic Christians last week. The prosecution…
Raymond Ibrahim | Dec. 19, 2018 The Slaughter of Christians Central African Republic: As many as 42 people—mostly Christian women—“were hacked to death … after suspected Islamist rebels attacked a group…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 18, 2018 Isolation. For many Muslim-background believers, also known as MBBs, this is one of the first feelings they experience when their faith becomes public.…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 14, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the evening of December 12, Egyptian police officer Rabi Mustapha Khalifa shot and killed Coptic…
A Muslim policeman charged with guarding a Coptic Christian church shot and killed two Copts—a father, 49, and his son, 21—Wednesday in Minya, Egypt.Eyewitnesses say a verbal quarrel had ensued…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 11, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Sunday, December 9, a group of Islamic extremists attacked a church in the Upper Egypt…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 3, 2018 Multiple news outlets report that Saudi Arabia hosted its first Coptic Orthodox mass this past Sunday. The mass was held inside a home…
Assyrian International News Agency | Dec. 3, 2018 Most Reverend Justin Welby said that Christians are facing "the worst situation since the Mongol invasions of the 13th Century", explaining how…
Morning Star News | Dec. 3, 2018 A wan effort to do away with the religious designation on ID cards in Egypt reflects the enormity of the discrimination Christians face…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 29, 2018 An intruder who broke into a Cairo Church and attacked two Christians while shouting Islamic slogans has had his case referred to a Court of…
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 26, 2018 Five new reports – about Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Colombia and the Central African Republic – unmask the multiple domestic, societal and state dynamics…
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 23, 2018 Egypt’s Copts are still reeling from a second bus attack in two years on the desert road to a monastery in Minya and asking why there was…
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 20, 2018 An Egyptian court sentenced a man to death last Saturday, 17 November, for the killing of an 80-year old Christian doctor in Cairo…
The Daily Caller | Nov. 18, 2018 Egyptian authorities sentenced a man accused of supporting ISIS to death Saturday for the 2017 murder of a Christian doctor in Cairo. Prosecutors…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 17, 2018 An Egyptian Member of Parliament is drafting a bill which would remove religion from the national ID cards, according to al-Bawaba News. While…
Sunday Express | Nov. 15, 2018 CHRISTIANS in Egypt were attacked during a prayer service by a man wielding a “sharp tool” and shouting Islamic slogans. According to Egyptian Sunday…
Raymond Ibraham | Nov. 12, 2012 On Friday, November 2, heavily armed Islamic terrorists ambushed and massacred Christians returning home after visiting an ancient monastery in the desert. Seven pilgrims—including a 12-year-old girl and…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 8, 2018 In a statement released on Tuesday, Egyptian church officials directly contradicted the account of the State Information Service regarding the Nov. 2nd attack against…
Independent | November 2, 2018 Isis militants ambushed three buses carrying Christian pilgrims on their way to a remote desert monastery south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing seven…