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...]
Muslims Attack Christians for Mocking ‘Un-Islamic’ ISIS, Copts Arrested for ‘Contempt of Religion’
Earlier this month in Egypt, Gad Yunan, a Coptic Christian teacher, and some of his Coptic students were arrested on the charge of "contempt of religions." Their crime was to have made a 30-second video on Yunan's iphone poking fun at the Islamic State -- which Egypt's Muslims and authorities apparently equate with making fun of Islam, even as Muslims in the West insist ISIS … [Read more...]
Christians Pay Islam’s Price for Freedom: Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2015
Gatestone Institute The New Year began with Muslim gunmen killing a dozen people at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7. The attack was motivated by the publication of unflattering caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. Lesser known is that, all throughout the Islamic world, the magazine’s caricatures of Muhammad were blamed on … [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...]