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- 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 labourers to send money to families back at home. But they died a gruesome death at the hands of militants who have sworn allegiance to the notorious Islamic State group.
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Feb 14, 2019 · The men were abducted between December 2014 and January 2015 and killed to avenge “Kamilia Shehata, Wafa Constantine, and other sisters” allegedly “tortured and murdered by the Coptic Church of...
Feb 19, 2020 · Five Years Ago, ISIS Executed 21 Christians on a Libyan Beach. How the Coptic Church responded in the wake of this heinous act of violence—and what believers around the world can learn from the...
Feb 16, 2017 · Egypt's state news agency MENA quoted the spokesman for the Coptic Church as confirming that 21 Egyptian Christians believed to be held by Islamic State were dead. | (Photo: Reuters/Social Media via Reuters TV)
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On 12th February 2015, the Islamic State (IS) released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Christian construction workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they reported had been killed.
Feb 16, 2015 · 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 labourers to send money...
An Egyptian court on February 25, 2016, convicted four Coptic Christian teenagers for contempt of Islam, after they appeared in a video mocking Muslim prayers. Nearly all Egyptian Christians today are Copts, adherents of either the Coptic Orthodox Church or other Coptic churches. Notable Copts in Egypt
30 January 2011, just days after the demonstrations to reform the Egyptian government, Muslims in southern Egypt broke into two homes belonging to Coptic Christians. The Muslim assailants murdered 11 people and wounded four others.
