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Military police forcibly disperse Coptic sit-in
Egypt

Military police forcibly disperse Coptic sit-in

Military police on Wednesday morning forcibly evacuated hundreds of Coptic demonstrators from the area outside the state TV building in…
500 Copts protest in Beni Suef over Aswan church burning
Egypt

500 Copts protest in Beni Suef over Aswan church burning

About 500 young Copts gathered Tuesday in front of the Beni Suef Governorate headquarters to protest the burning of a…
Coptic group slams govt, military council over Christians’ rights
Egypt

Coptic group slams govt, military council over Christians’ rights

A group of Coptic activists on Tuesday accused the cabinet and the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)…
Copts in Aswan demand construction of church
Egypt

Copts in Aswan demand construction of church

About 1500 Coptic Egyptians staged demonstrations before the Aswan municipality headquarters in Upper Egypt on Monday to demand the construction…
Aswan attack part of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Copts, says lawyer
Egypt

Aswan attack part of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Copts, says lawyer

Naguib Gobrail, a lawyer and the head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations (EUOHR), has called for the…
Abouel Fotouh: I will choose Coptic vice president if I win
Egypt

Abouel Fotouh: I will choose Coptic vice president if I win

At a rally in Aswan on Saturday, presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh said he would appoint a Copt as…
Thousands of Copts protest Aswan church attack
Egypt

Thousands of Copts protest Aswan church attack

Thousands of Copts staged a demonstration Saturday to condemn the attack on a church in Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt,…
Muslims burn part of Aswan Governorate church
Egypt

Muslims burn part of Aswan Governorate church

A group of Muslims burnt part of a church in a village in Aswan Governorate, 800km south of Cairo, eyewitnesses…
Pope Shenouda: Modern-day Jews not ‘God’s chosen people’
Egypt

Pope Shenouda: Modern-day Jews not ‘God’s chosen people’

Modern-day Jews are not God's chosen people, said Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, in a…
Pope Shenouda rejects foreign intervention in Egyptian affairs
Egypt

Pope Shenouda rejects foreign intervention in Egyptian affairs

Pope Shenouda III on Monday reiterated his rejection of foreign interference in Egyptian affairs, particularly with regard religious freedoms and…
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