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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 466

Coptic Christians

Then-Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump arrives at Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch to visit the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, October 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
November 22, 2024, 7:01 pm
With evangelicals locked, Trump wooed Chabad, the Amish, Copts
US president-elect courted niche communities, knowing every vote could be critical, particularly in swing states
By Peter Smith
Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki arrives at a courthouse in Egypt's northern Nile delta city of Mansoura for a trial hearing on June 21, 2022. (Mohamed El-Raai/AFP)
July 19, 2023, 11:37 am
US urges Egypt to release jailed rights researcher ‘and others unjustly detained’
State Department says it’s ‘concerned’ by three-year sentence handed to Patrick Zaki for article recounting discrimination against Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority
By AFP
Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki arrives at a courthouse in Egypt's northern Nile delta city of Mansoura for a trial hearing on June 21, 2022. (Mohamed El-Raai/AFP)
July 18, 2023, 10:00 pm
Egypt sentences human rights researcher to 3 years in prison
Opposition figures walk out of ‘national dialogue’ talks with government to protest jailing of Patrick Zaki, call for his release
By AFP
Illustrative: A Coptic Christian man mourns victims killed in an attack a day earlier, during an early morning ceremony at the Prince Tadros church in Egypt's southern Minya province, on November 3, 2018. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)
August 14, 2022, 4:17 pm
41 killed in Cairo as fire engulfs Copt church during Sunday mass, officials say
Another 14 injured in blaze; prosecutor’s office opens investigation and sends a team to establish cause
By AFP and ToI Staff
Egyptian Coptic Christian priests pray during the Easter Eve service at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
June 12, 2022, 11:24 am
Egypt court sentences man to death for killing Coptic priest on seaside promenade
Nehru Tawfiq, 60, an Islamist with an extremist background, convicted of murdering 56-year-old Arsanious Wadid in sectarian attack; his lawyers say killing not deliberate
By AP
Egyptian Coptic Christian priests pray during the Easter Eve service at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
April 9, 2022, 7:57 am
Coptic priest dies after he was stabbed on Egyptian seaside promenade
Prominent Sunni leader Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb condemns attack, saying such acts ‘might instigate religious wars’; Copts believed to be among world’s oldest Christian communities
By AP
In this file photo, a policeman stands guard in front of Mar Mina Coptic church, December 20, 2017 after a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group, in Helwan, Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
April 15, 2020, 9:49 pm
Egyptian policeman killed in shootout with armed gunmen
Cell was allegedly planning to attack Coptic Christians in Cairo during Easter celebrations
By AFP
In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 photo, human rights lawyer Huda Nasrallah poses for a portrait at her office in Cairo, Egypt (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
November 15, 2019, 11:23 am
Egyptian woman fights unequal Islamic inheritance laws
Since her father’s death, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has demanded an equal share of property left to her two brothers; Islamic inheritance laws favor male heirs
By NOHA ELHENNAWY
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press during a tour of the newly-inaugurated Al-Fattah Al-Alim mosque in Egypt's New Administrative Capital, on January 10, 2019 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / POOL / AFP)
January 11, 2019, 9:45 am
Pompeo praises Egypt ‘freedoms’ during church, mosque visit
US secretary of state tours the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ and the Al-Fattah Al-Alim mosque in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital
By AFP
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, speaks during the inauguration of the massive Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Egypt's New Administrative Capital (45 kilometers or 28 miles east of Cairo), on January 6, 2019. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)
January 6, 2019, 11:13 pm
Egypt’s Sissi inaugurates cathedral, mosque in new capital
President opens new church under heavy security, hours after a police officer was killed trying to defuse bomb planted near a Cairo church
By Hamza Hendawi
A policeman stands guard in front of Mar Mina church after a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group, in Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, on December 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
January 6, 2019, 12:21 am
Egyptian police officer killed defusing bomb outside Cairo church
2 others wounded dismantling explosive device; Sissi to attend Christmas mass at cathedral on Sunday
By AFP
A villager wearing a traditional peasant galabiya gown inspects Christmas trees in El Kosheh, Egypt, on December 18, 2018. (RNS photo/ Fady Hadny)
December 28, 2018, 4:07 pm
Egypt’s Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas, ponder changing date
With evergreen firs and red-robed Santas relatively new to rural Copts, a community with longstanding traditions has mixed reactions to moving the holiday to align with the West
By Mina Nader and Jacob Wirtschafter
In this November 3, 2018 file photo, coffins of Coptic Christians slain in an Islamic State terror attack lie in the Church of Great Martyr Prince Tadros during their funeral service in Minya, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
November 4, 2018, 3:11 pm
Egypt says it killed 19 in shootout with perpetrators of attack on Christians
Gunmen had killed 7 pilgrims Friday in Islamic State assault on the road to remote desert monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor
By Hamza Hendawi
A relative of a slain Christian grieves during funeral service at Church of Great Martyr Prince Tadros, in Minya, Egypt on Nov. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
November 3, 2018, 2:01 pm
Christians in Egypt bury their dead after jihadist attack
Local Islamic State affiliate claims its gunmen killed 7 Coptic pilgrims in ambush attack near Cairo
By Samy Magdy and Hamza Hendawi
Israel Police officers restrain a Coptic cleric during a protest against safety maintenance work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, October 24, 2018. (Patriarchate of the Orthodox Copts in Jerusalem/Facebook)
October 24, 2018, 4:25 pm
Police forcibly remove Coptic priests blocking workers from Holy Sepulchre
One arrested as clerics protest Israel Antiques Authorities workers attempting to carry out safety repairs at sensitive Old City church
By Stuart Winer
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