This December, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published its new report, Violating Rights: Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws, on the implementation of blasphemy laws in nations around the world. The research and data is focused on the time period from January 2014 to December 2018 and offers insight into how, when, […]
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In mid-October 2020, it was revealed that 20-year-old Magda Mansur Ilbrahim, who was formerly a devout Christian and who disappeared during her travel to university on October 3, has suddenly reappeared, though much different than she was before her abduction. In a video released just recently, Ibrahim can be seen dressed in Islamic-style clothing and
Coptic Solidarity recently released shocking news that 39-year-old Ranya Abd al-Masih, an Egyptian Coptic Christian schoolteacher, wife, and mother, was seen in a video just a few days after her disappearance on April 22. In this video, her entire demeanor had shifted; crying, she claimed that herself and her entire family have converted to Islam
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Good Friday and Easter services took place in Egypt without incident, following the twin bombings and massacres within two Coptic Orthodox churches on Palm Sunday. Reportedly, during the Good Friday and Easter services police surrounded Coptic churches in battle gear and blocked off streets in front of churches in an effort to thwart any further
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Coptic Christians attending Sunday mass were attacked by a suicide bomber at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, killing 25 and injuring dozens more. The attack has been one of the deadliest attacks Egypt’s Coptic Christians have faced in years. The government has named 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa as the perpetrator of
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Jubilee Campaign received a horrifying update from Middle East Concern about the current climate in Egypt for Coptic Christians. In the last six weeks, there have been at multiple attacks on Christians. “On 20th May several Christian homes were attacked in al-Karam village in Minya province, as a result of a rumour about a relationship
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