EGYPT: Coptic shopkeeper murdered by extremists
A Coptic shopkeeper has been murdered and two other Christians injured in an attack in Alexandria.
Category: Egypt
EGYPT: One church building opened; one destroyed
On 21 May, President al-Sisi opened a new church building in Alexandria, while later that day an existing building in a village 65km away was destroyed by the local authority.
EGYPT: 74 more church buildings granted legal status
On 2 April, 74 more church buildings and affiliated service buildings were granted legal status.
EGYPT: Ninety more churches granted legal status
On 31 December, a Cabinet committee granted licences to a new batch of ninety churches and affiliated service buildings.
EGYPT: Easter church closures
Egyptian police have closed churches in Qalyubiya and Sohag governorates following violent protests by Muslim mobs.
EGYPT: More churches granted legalisation
On 8 April, the government committee tasked with assessing church applications legalised 111 more church buildings.
EGYPT: Slow progress and violent protests hamper church permit process
Copts are frustrated by the slow pace of granting church permits and outraged by mob attacks on applicant churches.
EGYPT: New Coptic cathedral opened
On 6 January, Coptic Orthodox Christmas Eve, Egyptian Christians celebrated the opening of their new cathedral in Nasr City, 40km east of Cairo.
EGYPT: Seven Christians shot dead in Minya bus attack
At least seven Christians were shot dead and 19 were injured in a terrorist attack on buses carrying pilgrims to a monastery in Minya on Friday 2 November
EGYPT: Kom El-Loufy’s Copts celebrate new church building but others face closure
Kom El-Loufy’s Coptic community is celebrating the opening of its new church building, but elsewhere the authorities are closing church buildings for “security reasons”.