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Dec 29, 2017 · At least nine people were killed near the Egyptian capital of Cairo today, in a series of attacks on the country’s Coptic Christian minority. Egyptian police say they saw two suspicious men standing outside of the Church of the Martyr Martina in the town of Helwan on Friday morning. When the police approached, the men opened fire. At least one policeman (Reda Abdel Rahman, age 45) was killed, along with one of the gunmen. Egyptian state TV showed footage of the gunman who died.

MINYA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Coptic Christians on Thursday attended the burial of a father and his son who were killed by a police officer in Egypt’s Minya province, amid cries for the state to...

About Marlo Safi June 24, 2019 1:58 PM Mourners gather for the funeral of Coptic Christians who were killed in an attack, at the Prince Tadros Church in Minya, Egypt, November 3, 2018. (Mohamed Abd...

Coptic Christians represent about 10 per cent of Egypt's majority Muslim population. The community has been subject to intense attacks in recent years, particularly from Islamist fundamentalist groups. In December 2016, ISIS claimed responsibility for a Cairo Coptic church bombing that killed 27.

Oct 21, 2019 · The last body of the 21 people beheaded by ISIS on a Libyan beach in 2015 will soon be reunited with the rest of the 20 Coptic Christian martyrs in a newly built shrine honoring their memory in one of most prominent hotbeds of Christian persecution in the country. Libya’s ambassador to Egypt has agreed to the transfer of the body, marking the latest development in a saga that horrified the world with the release of a video by the Islamic State in February 2015 showing the beheading of 21 ...

Jul 29, 2018 · Original Post: A murder investigation is underway in Egypt today after a Christian Coptic bishop was found murdered inside the precinct of the monastery where he was abbot. Bishop Epiphanius served...

Jan 15, 2021 · Persecution of Christians in Egypt was more intense than in any other country—with perhaps hundreds of thousands killed. For this reason, the Coptic Church determined to start its calendar, not from its founding by St. Mark in AD 42 but with the year of the vicious Emperor Diocletian’s accession to the throne in 248 AD, calling its calendar “Anno Martyrii”, meaning, “Of the Martyrs.”

In April 2017, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings that killed dozens of people at Coptic churches celebrating Palm Sunday in northern Egypt. Just months earlier, the group said it was behind a bombing at a cathedral in Cairo that killed at least 25 people.