Prosecutors in Egypt have thrown out a case against a Muslim mob that alleged the group had stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked through th Souad Thabet, 70, was assaulted in May...
A fifth Coptic Christian has been murdered in Egypt in two weeks, a Christian news agency has reported. According to World Watch Monitor, Ishak Ibrahim Fayez Younan was found murdered in a flat he re...
Seven Christian homes have been destroyed in Egypt after rumours that a Christian man was having an affair with a Muslim woman. A mob set fire to the houses after stripping the mother of the Christia...
A report about the life of Christians in Egypt was used by a court to convict three journalists of broadcasting false news, it has emerged. Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Pet...
A video has appeared online showing a mob attacking Christians and their homes in northern Egypt. The footage shows the gang throwing stones, breaking glass and chanting in Saft al-Kharsah village in...
An anti-persecution charity has said an Egyptian campaigner who's been defending the rights of Coptic Christians has been arrested. Christian Solidarity Worldwide has said that plainclothes police of...
Authorities in Egypt have returned broadcast equipment they seized from a Christian TV station three months ago. SAT-7 said the country's Censorship Police took a large amount of technology from the ...
Of the two million who have fled the crisis, 110,000 have ended up in Egypt with some seeking refuge in All Saints Cathedral in Cairo. Syrian Christians fear a military strike in Syria will leave the...
An Egyptian Christian has been murdered inside his own shop in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Youssef Lamei, pictured above on the right with his son, had his throat slashed twice by an attack...
A Christian plumber has been murdered in front of his family by suspected Islamic militants, Egyptian security officials say. Investigators told Associated Press that militants had forced their way i...
An Egyptian Christian has said that when people pray for persecuted Christians, they shouldn't pray for the persecution to stop. Michael Jones, whose name has been changed for safety purposes, told P...
A number of Coptic Christians gathered outside a court in Cairo at the weekend to protest against their treatment by the justice system. Just under 50 believers chanted slogans and held banners calli...
Islamic State's leader in Egypt has warned Muslims to stay away from Christian gatherings. The warning suggests that the militant group will keep up attacks on what the leader referred to as 'legi...
An Egyptian church congregation has celebrated its first mass in seven years. Church of the Virgin Mary and Martyr Abanoub Al Nahisi, in a village south of Cairo, was closed eleven years ago by local...
A number of churches in southern Egypt have cancelled their Easter celebrations as they mourn the deaths of 45 people killed in two suicide attacks at churches Commemorations in the Coptic Orthodox ...
Several members of the United States' Congress are calling on the Egyptian attorney general to free a Coptic Christian convert from Islam who was jailed by Egyp In a letter the politicians claim Bish...
Sameh Maurice from an Evangelical Church in Cairo told Premier that Christians in Egypt feel the UK government isn't doing enough to support them. An Egyptian pastor has told Premier that Christians ...
Egypt's Interior Ministry says a policeman was killed as he was trying to defuse a homemade explosive device near a church in a residential Cairo district. The ministry said the blast, which occurred...
Two Egyptian policemen have been shot dead by masked gunmen as they guarded a Copic Christian church. The killings come a day before the Coptic Church's Christmas, on January 7th. Security at churche...
A Christian Middle East expert has said that Coptic believers are on the whole supportive of the Egyptian government, five years on since the revolution. But Dr Harry Hagopian, a church consultant an...
