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Egypt court refers man who murdered three children to psychiatric evaluation
Egypt
July 26, 2020
Egypt court refers man who murdered three children to psychiatric evaluation
The South Minya Prosecution’s Attorney General Tamer Motea on Sunday sentenced a farmer to four days imprisonment pending investigations into…
Coptic Orthodox Church defrocks priest over child sexual abuse claims
Egypt
July 18, 2020
Coptic Orthodox Church defrocks priest over child sexual abuse claims
Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church has defrocked Reweiss Aziz Khalil, a priest of the Diocese of Minya…
Egyptian governorates on alert for first Eid holiday under coronavirus lockdown
Egypt
May 23, 2020
Egyptian governorates on alert for first Eid holiday under coronavirus lockdown
Egyptian governorates are in a state of alert in preparation for tomorrow’s Eid al-Fitr holiday, which will be celebrated for…
Minya’s Copts collect charity funds to help Muslim and Christian villagers
Egypt
May 13, 2020
Minya’s Copts collect charity funds to help Muslim and Christian villagers
Coptic Christians from Minya governorate’s Kafr al-Mahdy village collected the Zakat al-Fitr (Ramadan charity funds) funds from the village and…
Photos: Coptic carpenter gifts Muslim neighbors huge lantern for Ramadan
Egypt
April 25, 2020
Photos: Coptic carpenter gifts Muslim neighbors huge lantern for Ramadan
A Coptic Christian carpenter from a Minya Governorate village surprised his Muslim neighbors by gifting them a giant hand-made lantern…
Upper Egypt university dormitories begin receiving coronavirus cases
Egypt
April 18, 2020
Upper Egypt university dormitories begin receiving coronavirus cases
University dormitories in Upper Egypt have begun receiving coronavirus cases, with the Assiut Health Directorate announcing on Friday the transfer…
Egypt’s Minya opens museum in remembrance of 21 Christians killed by ISIS in Libya
Egypt
February 18, 2020
Egypt’s Minya opens museum in remembrance of 21 Christians killed by ISIS in Libya
Bishop Bevnotious of Egypt’s Minya Governorate has established a new museum that commemorates the 21 Egyptian Christians who were taken…
Minya car crash leaves 6 people dead, injures 9
Egypt
February 10, 2020
Minya car crash leaves 6 people dead, injures 9
Six people died and another nine were injured on Monday when a private car collided with a pick-up car on…
Egypt takes measures limiting subsidies to 2 children per family
Society
February 8, 2020
Egypt takes measures limiting subsidies to 2 children per family
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced on Friday that the government is taking measures to limit subsidies to only two…
Photos: 16 tombs, 20 mummies and 10,000 statues among Egypt’s first archaeological discovery of 2020
Archaeology
January 31, 2020
Photos: 16 tombs, 20 mummies and 10,000 statues among Egypt’s first archaeological discovery of 2020
Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities and Tourism Khaled al-Anani has announced the country’s first archaeological discovery of the new year, located…