New churches in Egypt will be required to ask for permission before they can be built, under a new law agreed by the Egyptian parliament. The highly disputed legislation will make it more difficult t...
The Egyptian president has stressed his commitment to ensuring Muslims and Christians are treated equally under the law, amid a spate of murders of Coptic belie According to Fides, President Abdel Fa...
Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has promised to bring a gang of Muslims to justice for an attack on seven Christian homes. The properties were set ablaze by the group amid rumours a Christia...
The AFP news agency is reporting that Egypt's interior ministry said it had identified the suicide bomber behind a deadly attack at the weekend outside a church The ministry said Mahmud Hassan Mubara...
An Egyptian court has sentenced to death a man who was convicted of murdering a Coptic priest last year. Fr Samaan Shehta, 40, died in hospital after he was struck on the head with a cleaver in a poo...
Egypt has heightened its security efforts in anticipation of Pope Francis' visit to Cairo on Friday. An official told the Associated Press this week that security forces will search for explosives ar...
Churches in Egypt have suspended conferences and trips for three weeks following a warning from security services of potential further terror attacks. Coptic and Evangelical congregations in the coun...
Amnesty International visited sites of sectarian violence in Al-Minya, Fayoum and Greater Cairo to gather evidence from eyewitnesses, local officials and religi Egyptian authorities are being accused...
Egypt's Coptic Church leader has cancelled an upcoming meeting with the Christian US Vice President in protest to Washington declaring Jerusalem as Israel' The move by Pope Tawadros II came afte...
The head of Egypt's Coptic Church has announced he's closing his Facebook account to make better use of his time. Pope Tawadros II told state-run Mena news agency: "Time is the most precious gift God...
Members of President Trump's evangelical advisory board have met with Egypt's president to discuss his administration's commitment to religious freedom for all Christian author Joel Rosenberg organi...
Egypt's president has ordered the government to "take all necessary measures" to help resettle hundreds of Christians fleeing North Sinai after a recent spate o Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met other politic...
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...
