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Jul 8, 2016 · By Magdi Khalil – Coptic Solidarity Executive Committee Member. Historical Introduction Christianity was brought to Egypt sometime between 55-61 AD, at the hands of St. Mark the Evangelist, nephew of Apostle Barnabas, author of the Gospel of Mark, and one of the seventy apostles that Christ commissioned to preach the Gospel in His name. St. Mark was martyred in the city of Alexandria in 68 ...
Dec 29, 2017 · CAIRO -- At least 9 people, including eight Coptic Christians, were killed in a shootout outside a church and at a nearby store owned by a Christian in a Cairo suburb, Egypt's Health Ministry said ...
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May 26, 2017 · Published 1:23 PM PDT, May 26, 2017. CAIRO (AP) — Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing at least 28 people, and Egypt responded by launching airstrikes against what it said were militant training bases in Libya. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi announced the retaliatory action ...
May 28, 2017 · Men mourn over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, inside the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near ...
Apr 10, 2017 · In December 2016 a Coptic Cathedral was bombed in central Cairo, leaving some 25 people dead, and twin attacks on Palm Sunday 2017 killed dozens. During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the ...
Feb 16, 2015 · Fighters pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have released a video purporting to show the killing of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians kidnapped in Libya.
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Feb 16, 2015 · 16 February 2015. Reuters. The beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by jihadists has prompted an outpouring of grief and horror. Most hailed from poor villages and went to Libya to work as ...
