A year after the ratification of the 2016 law for building churches in Egypt, this research paper explores the roles played by the different actors and institutions that influenced both the ...

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Egypt said the strikes are a retaliation for the beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts by the Islamic radicals in Libya.

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The Coptic Pope Tawadros II has complained that Morsi wanted to Islamize the government and ignored the plight of Egyptian Copts, who face escalating persecution since the coup. Some Copts hope ...

While the world is still in shock over ISIS's most recent heinous crime against Egyptian Copts in Libya, Arab celebrities condemned the bloody act by taking to social media, where they condoled ...

Coffins containing the remains of the bodies of Egyptian Copts killed by Islamic State militants in Sirte are carried by the plane to be transferred to Egypt, in Misrata, Libya The bodies of 20 ...

The return of the bodies of 20 Egyptian Copts has brought families in rural Egypt a chance for some closure after years in mourning with little hope of having the bodies of their loved ones being ...