Egyptian authorities claim that the perpetrator was mentally ill, but the victim’s family rejects this. He was a jihadi. “Cyril Majali succumbed to his injuries after being attacked with a machete in Akhmim by an extremist,” translated from “وفاة كيرلس مجلى متأثرًا بإصابته بعد الاعتداء عليه بساطور بأخميم على يد متطرف,” by Nader Shukry, Wataninet, […]
Egypt: Muslims open fire on bus full of Christians on way to monastery, at least seven murdered
Christians in Egypt have endured discrimination, harassment, and sometimes open persecution for fourteen centuries. When Arab armies invaded Egypt, it was 99% Christian, but over the centuries, the institutionalized second-class status of dhimmitude that the Muslim rulers imposed upon the Christian population reduced the Christians to a small minority in their native land. This kind […]
Egypt: Christians still denied churches while government opens 10 mosques every week
One week before the bombing of St. Peter’s cathedral chapel which left at least 25 Christians dead, hostility for Christian churches was being shown in the usual, less spectacular way. Egyptian authorities and politicians held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the village of Naghameesh, Sohag. Those present […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christian village on rumor of church opening, block road so fire trucks can’t enter
“Fanatic Muslims in the village of al-Naghameesh in Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, attacked the Copts in the village todayele Friday 25 November, on rumour that they were opening a church. A guesthouse owned by Ihab Tamer, a Coptic doctor, was burned, the façades of 10 Coptic-owned houses were damaged, and a house and […]
Egypt: After ransom paid, Coptic Christian still murdered
A 55-year-old Coptic Christian man was kidnapped and held for ransom. Although his family eventually paid, and the Muslim abductors took the money, they still killed the hapless Copt. On April 26 in Sohag, Upper Egypt, Makram Nazir was returning home from his second job in the middle of the night when he was seized. […]
Egypt: Muslims prevent Christians from praying in Coptic home
It is not enough that Muslims in Egypt prevent Christians from building or even renovating churches, but, as in other Muslim majority nations, when Christians merely meet in one of their homes, Muslims still attack and prevent them. After Muslims in Egypt rioted and engaged in anti-Christian violence at the proposition that a church be […]