Coptic Solidarity A 17-year old Coptic Christian girl named Tihani al-Nur Hakim was kidnapped earlier this week in the village of al-Kom al-Qibliyya in Samalout, Upper Egypt. Her family accuses the next door neighbor, a Muslim man named Ahmed Khalifa. An eyewitness said he saw the Muslim man seizing the girl. Although the family planned on organizing a protest, village … [Read more...]
Egypt: Muslim Man Stabs and Drowns Coptic Christian Woman
A Muslim man stabbed a Christian woman with a knife multiple times and then threw her body into a canal last week in Egypt. The Coptic Christian woman, Gamila Basilious, was 48-years-old and married, living in the Ibrahmiya region of Minya. According to police reports, the man, Mahmoud Hassan Abdulhamid, came to her door inquiring about her husband. When he discovered her … [Read more...]
Islamic State Executes Ethiopian Christians for Not Paying Jizya, or ‘Tribute’
The Islamic State has just released another video where it executes more Christians, this time for not paying jizya -- the tribute demanded of Christians according to Koran 9:29 in order to live under Islam as Christians. Two scenes appear in the 29-minute long video. The first scene consists of a group of Christian Ethiopians dressed all in black, with armed and masked … [Read more...]
Coptic Christians Celebrate Easter Outdoors Because Muslims Forbid Church Building
Coptic Solidarity Due to the difficulties Egypt’s Coptic Christians experience in trying to build—or even repair—churches in their homeland, some end up meeting in Coptic homes to worship (and often are attacked for it), while others worship out in the open. This was the case for the Christians of Nag Shenouda, in Sohag City. For 44 years they have been trying to build a … [Read more...]
Saudi Thinker: Muslim Institutions Teach that Christians are ‘Infidels’ and ‘Enemies’
According to Saudi novelist and writer, Hani Naqshabandi, "Our [Islamic] religious institutions do not give us room to exercise free thought." By way of example, he pointed out that "They [Saudi institutions] said that the Christian is an infidel, a denizen of hell, an enemy to Allah and Islam. So we said, 'Allah's curse on them.'" The Saudi thinker made these assertions … [Read more...]