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May 13, 2024 · A filmmaker recently announced that he is making a movie dedicated to the trials and travails of the 21 Coptic Christians who were ritually decapitated by ISIS terrorists in Libya in 2015. The iconic and infamous moment the 21 men in orange jumpsuits were killed was captured by video and disseminated around the world.
May 16, 2024 · Video of the burning homes was shared on social media that featured celebratory music and Arabic lyrics. Mobs are out on the streets and burning down homes of Egyptian Coptic Christians in Al-Fawakher in Minya.
May 2, 2024 · Clergy from the Coptic Orthodox Church had notified security service officials four days prior to the first attack that hostilities toward the Christians had reached a breaking point, according to a statement issued Monday (April 29) by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
May 15, 2024 · It was nine years ago -- February 15, 2015 -- that 20 Coptic Orthodox Christians, mostly from Egypt, and one Ghanaian Catholic, were beheaded by members of ISIS on a beach in Libya. "The...
4 days ago · Christians in Egypt are also frequent targets of blasphemy accusations. The Minority Rights Group International reported: In February 2016, four Coptic teenagers received a five-year prison sentence for mocking Islam in a recorded video in which they ridiculed ISIS. They then fled the country in April.
Apr 29, 2024 · The US State Department’s 2022 human rights report for Egypt noted sectarian violence against Coptic Christians, including the killing of two men by ISIS in Sinai that August. Egypt’s Coptic Christian community has long faced sectarian violence and attacks by ISIS and other groups.
May 2, 2024 · Staff Reporter May 2, 2024. A crucifix is pictured in a file photo as Coptic Christians pray in Cairo. (OSV News photo/ stringer via Reuters. Muslim extremists set on fire several homes of Christians in Minya, a province in southern Egypt, in a continuation of anti-Christian violence less than two weeks before Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter.
