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Category: Egypt

EGYPT: Coptic shopkeeper murdered by extremists

Posted on 17Dec202023rd December 2020Categories Egypt
EGYPT: Coptic shopkeeper murdered by extremists

A Coptic shopkeeper has been murdered and two other Christians injured in an attack in Alexandria.

EGYPT: One church building opened; one destroyed

Posted on 04Jun202023rd June 2020Categories 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

Posted on 07Apr202021st April 2020Categories Egypt
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

Posted on 07Jan202030th January 2020Categories Egypt
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

Posted on 02May201922nd May 2019Categories Egypt
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

Posted on 01May20198th May 2019Categories Egypt
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

Posted on 17Jan201929th January 2019Categories Egypt
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

Posted on 17Jan201924th January 2019Categories Egypt
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

Posted on 05Nov201828th November 2018Categories Egypt
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

Posted on 06Sep201820th September 2018Categories Egypt
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”.

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