Tension is escalating over the case of 14-year-old Nancy Magdy Fathy, and her 16-year old cousin Christine Ezzat Fathy, who have disappeared and allegedly converted to Islam.
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Tensions Rise in Egypt Over Two Missing Christian Girls
Posted by Sarah on June 29th, 2011
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No Comments »Muslims Surround Church in Upper Egypt, Threaten to Kill Priest
Posted by Sarah on June 29th, 2011
Hundreds of Muslims surrounded the church of St George today in the village of Beni Ahmed West, 7 KM south of Minya, vowing to kill its priest Father George Thabet, who was serving the morning mass and was locked in the church with a number of parishioners.
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Posted by Sarah on June 29th, 2011
Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then “sold” in Minya, Egypt—the same region where a Coptic church was recently attacked and desecrated.
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Posted by Sarah on June 17th, 2011
Reuters news agency quoted unconfirmed security sources as saying that three policemen and six Coptic protesters on Wednesday were injured in a clash between the two sides in the southern Egyptian city of Minya.
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Posted by Sarah on June 17th, 2011
The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of his fears for Christian communities in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab spring.
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Posted by Sarah on June 17th, 2011
IN THE 27 governorates across Egypt, not one governor is Coptic, yet Coptic Christians make up more than 10 per cent of the population. Despite the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak, laws against the building of new churches are yet to be overturned and avenues of proper legal redress are effectively closed to Copts.
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Posted by Sarah on June 15th, 2011
May 8, 2011, Egyptians gather near a building belonging to Christians that was set on fire during clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo
Posted in Featured Post, News and Articles Tags: acm, ambassador, arab, army, Attack, auscma, Australia, Australian Coptic Movement, Bombings, Brotherhood, cairo, Christian, churches, civil, conflict, congress, conversion, convert, Coptic, Copts, crime, death, discrimination, domestic, egypt, Egyptian, exploitation, Force, Freedom, genocide, gillard, government, governor, guns, Hosni Mubarak, human rights, international, intolerance, Islam, journalism, justice, kidnap, killed, laws, Massacre, members, Michael Meunier, Middle East, Military, murder, Muslim, nightmare, Obama, Parliament, peace, Politics, radical, rape, report, Revolution, riot, Salafist, Saudi Arabia., security, terrorist attack, torture, United States, victims, Victory, violence, war, women, Zawahiri's No Comments »Egypt’s Christians in new despair
Posted by Sarah on June 15th, 2011
FIVE weeks after the fall of the Egyptian regime, Ayman Anwar Mitri’s apartment was torched. When he showed up to investigate, he was bundled inside by bearded Islamists.
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Posted by Sarah on June 10th, 2011
As the Arab Spring gives way to summer, the afterglow is fading into recognition that a successful, democratic revolution is rarely as quick or easy as it first appears
Posted in Featured Post, News and Articles Tags: acm, ambassador, arab, army, Attack, auscma, Australia, Australian Coptic Movement, Bombings, Brotherhood, cairo, Christian, churches, civil, conflict, congress, conversion, convert, Coptic, Copts, death, discrimination, domestic, egypt, Egyptian, exploitation, Force, Freedom, genocide, gillard, government, governor, guns, Hosni Mubarak, human rights, international, intolerance, Islam, journalism, justice, kidnap, killed, laws, Massacre, members, Michael Meunier, Middle East, Military, murder, Muslim, nightmare, Obama, Parliament, peace, Politics, radical, rape, report, Revolution, riot, Salafist, security, terrorist attack, torture, United States, victims, Victory, violence, war, women, Zawahiri's No Comments »Islamists Target Egypt’s Christians
Posted by Sarah on June 1st, 2011
Egypt’s Arab Spring has become a nightmare for the nation’s 2,000-year-old Coptic Christian community, now the terror target of choice for Islamist radicals. Christians’ “personal security has gotten much worse” since the February ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, says Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute, who monitors the situation of religious minorities in the Muslim [...]
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