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Security forces outside destroyed Christian-owned shops in Farshout, Qena on 21 November, 2009.
Video shows angry mob stripping Christian women
Sarah Carr
Mohamad Adam
09 Apr 2013
A disturbing video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday shows what appears to be an angry Muslim crowd in Upper Egypt beating...
Protesters gather outside Libyan Embassy after Christian's death
MENA 11 Mar 2013
Scores of Egyptians protested outside the Libyan Embassy on Monday night after an Egyptian Christian, Ezzat Atallah,...
Nun mourns the death of Pope Shenuda III the spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, at the Saint Mark Coptic cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district on March 18, 2012. Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda III, spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, died at the age of 88 after a battle with illness, leaving the country's Copts in mourning. He had suffered health problems for years and recently stopped receiving treatment for liver failure and tumours or swelling in his lungs because he was too feeble, the Coptic Church said.
Between the state and the church
Mai Shams El-Din 01 Jan 2013
Copts, many would say, have been persistently subject to sectarianism at the hands both of the state, and society more...
Syrian Christians decorate Christmas tree
Syria's Christians face a black Christmas
AFP 23 Dec 2012
Festive spirit is a distant memory for Syria's Christian minority as it faces a second Christmas in the grip of...
Churches take part in national dialogue
MENA 19 Dec 2012
The three Egyptian churches took part Tuesday in the fourth session of a national dialogue presided over by Vice...
Churches deny mobilizing against constitutional referendum
Al-Masry Al-Youm 16 Dec 2012
The Coptic Church has denied accusations by Freedom and Justice Party leaders that it mobilized its followers to vote...
Maggie Milad Fayez, 13, the girl whose hair was cut by woman with niqab, shows her cut hair to Al-Mary Al-Youm editor during interview with her family, 7 November 2012. A woman wears niqab cut Maggie's hair in metro because of altercation among them, while Maggie was on her way to school.
Women assault, cut hair of Christian woman on metro
Egypt Independent 11 Nov 2012
Two niqab-wearing women assaulted and forcefully cut the hair of a Christian woman on the metro Sunday, the third such...
Update: Bishop says police failed to protect church land from Salafi attack
Egypt Independent 06 Nov 2012
A number of Salafis trespassed onto a plot of land owned by the Shubra al-Kheima archdiocese Monday and turned it into...
Mourners gather outside of the St. Mark cathedral during a funeral mass for Coptic Pope Shenouda III.
Papal finalist elections on 29 October, name drawing on 4 November
Al-Masry Al-Youm 16 Oct 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that the papal elections would be held on 29 October instead of 24 November,...
Coptic church at sunset
North Sinai Copts refuse to leave despite threats; governor denies problem
Al-Masry Al-Youm 21 Sep 2012
  Christian residents in the Sinai towns of Rafah and Arish are refusing to leave town pursuant to anonymous...