Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from January 13 to help tackle “the dangers and funding of terrorism,” state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. Last April, Egypt first [ More … ]
Derna Shura Council has issued a statement denying involvement in the horrific attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt’s Minya Friday. The statement reads,”It is not our policy to target unarmed civilians in Libya, or in [ More … ]
The gunmen opened fire on a bus in the city of Minya in southern Egypt – around 245 km south of Cairo. The bus, which was thought to have been carrying around 50 Coptic Christians, was heading [ More … ]
The leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Egypt warned Muslims to avoid Christian gatherings, pointing to the possibility of further attacks against Christians in the country after two suicide bombings that killed [ More … ]
Three Egyptian police officers have been killed in a drive-by-shooting in Cairo by men armed with machine guns, according to the Egypt’s interior ministry. Two cars approached a police patrol in the busy neighborhood of [ More … ]
Commenting on Alexandria’s St. Mark Cathedral attack, Kuwaiti security sources blamed the Egyptian authorities for releasing Abu Ishaq Al Masry, the suicide bomber and main suspect, after he had been deported from Kuwait and handed [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency after two deadly bombings hit Coptic churches on Sunday, killing at least 44 people. Al- Sisi said in a speech aired on state television, “A series of [ More … ]
In Alexandria, another blast hit a church on Palm Sunday Celebration, causing casualties, according to state TV. At least 25 people had been killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a church north of Cairo. [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces in the western province of Gharbia defused a bomb inside the Mary Girgis Church in Tanta, Egypt’s fifth largest governorate. The police forces received reports that a bomb had been discovered inside the [ More … ]
Sinai Province, an affiliated group to the Islamic State in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, posted a video depicting the beheading of two men the militant Islamist group said it had found guilty of practicing witchcraft and [ More … ]
BY: HATEM BAZIAN* It is high time for a courageous political, social, and economic faith-based coalition between American Muslims and Jews (who are aware of the danger of Zionism) to be started in the U.S. The [ More … ]
Following threats by ISIS and increasing attacks of militants affiliated with the terrorist group in the region, dozens of Christian families in Egypt’s North Sinai left their homes and fled away. “Around 35 families have [ More … ]
The rate of attacks against the Christians in Egypt, especially in North Sinai, has dramatically increased over the past few months. Egyptian security officials,who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to [ More … ]
A shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile launcher lying in a heap of rubbish next to Cairo’s main international airport was allegedly found by an Egyptian man, according to The Telegraph. Ibrahim Yousry, an Egyptian, said that he found [ More … ]
-The bill sets a 4-month timeframe for approving an application for building a church The Egyptian government on Thursday approved a bill for the construction and renovation of churches in the Arab country, reported Anadolu [ More … ]
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