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sectarian violence • 5 min read

Source: Scores arrested following sectarian clashes in Minya

Videos circulating on social media showed a barn owned by some of the residents being set ablaze.

29 November 2020

Coptic Orthodox Church • 15 min read

Will the laity save the Coptic Church?

Karoline Kamel | The death of Bishop Epiphanius reopens discussions around electing a new Congregational Council

18 November 2018

Islamist Militant attacks on Copts • 7 min read

Archdiocese contradicts state narrative about Minya attack

Karoline Kamel | Appeals for more security on the road to the St Samuel Monastery went unheeded, church officials say

7 November 2018

attacks on Copts • 5 min read

‘We will kill the men and children and leave you to live the rest of your lives in misery’

Nourhan Mostafa | Safwat Shehata, a man from Minya who lost six relatives in Friday’s attack, recounts the ordeal

6 November 2018

attacks on Copts • 7 min read

‘Save us, St. Samuel!’: A survivor’s story of the Minya attack

Nourhan Mostafa | Survivor Ibrahim Youssef recounts the details of Friday’s militant attack in Minya

5 November 2018

attacks on Copts • 7 min read

What we know about the militant attack that left at least 7 Coptic Christians dead in Minya

At least 7 people were killed and nearly 20 injured in a militant attack targeting Copts in Minya

2 November 2018

church building • 10 min read

Disputed status of Beni Suef church sparks sectarian violence

Hadeer El-Mahdawy | The disputed legal status of a church in Beni Suef sparked sectarian violence and 20 arrests

18 April 2018

Copt-Muslim relations • 10 min read

Sectarian borders

Heba Afify | In some villages in Minya, Christians and Muslims are confined to separate districts

2 January 2018

attacks on churches • 8 min read

Accounts of the Mar Mina church attack

Karoline Kamel | How a gunman killed nine people and was chased down by a resident from the neighborhood

30 December 2017

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Opinion

Sherif Azer

Egypt’s Coptic Christians: Between the hammer of an authoritarian regime and the anvil of terrorism

Attacks on Egypt’s Copts will continue to take place until the real causes are addressed

7 January 2019

Amr Ezzat

Coptic media: A series of prevented visits and denied requests for more security

Amr Ezzat cites reports from Coptic news sources since a similar fatal militant attack in 2017

9 November 2018

Michael Akladios

Stop victim-blaming Egypt’s Copts

Media coverage of attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christians must stop blaming the victim

5 November 2018

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News

Province of Sinai • 4 min read

Province of Sinai claims responsibility for kidnapping of Coptic man near Arish

26 January 2019

attacks on churches • 7 min read

Coptic Christian place of worship shuttered in Minya after Muslim residents protest

16 January 2019

attacks on Copts • 4 min read

Public Prosecutor charges police officer with murder of two Copts in Minya

18 December 2018

attacks on churches • 5 min read

Detention orders issued following Friday attack on Minya Copts

4 September 2018

Copt-Muslim relations • 2 min read

Court issues 1-year suspended sentences to Atfieh church attackers, fines alleged property owner LE360,000

1 February 2018

attacks on churches • 4 min read

Update: Attack on Helwan church and store kills 10

29 December 2017

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