Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 14, 2014
Though the majority of the village al-Bushrā in Mallawī in the Governorate of al-Minya is muslim, the inhabitants collected 50,000 EGP for the release of kidnapped 10-year-old Marcus who belongs to the village. Some hours after the ransom was paid he was freed and returned to the village, security...
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 14, 2014
The Governorate of Minya has become a safe heaven for gangs of kidnappers according to news reports. All of the kidnapped persons were Copts. The gangs demand amounts of money as ransom. In Mallawī unknown persons have kidnapped a housewife. Her name is Nadia, wife of 'Ādel Shākir. Furthermore, 33-...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2014
In a speedy response to the investigative report of al- Shurūq that was published yesterday on the abduction of Copts in Nag’ Hamādi, the Qena security forces intensified its presence on the Cairo- Helwan Road.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 2, 2014
In Nag’ Hamādī it is unknown what is happening. Whereas the inhabitants assure that the mafia of arms and drugs are kidnapping rich Copts in order to obtain big sums of ransom, others found no solutions but to leave the city.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 2, 2014
Pope Tawadros also stated that in August 2013, more than 100 churches were destroyed. However, he added, that “we understand that and also understand that a homeland without churches is better than churches with no homeland”
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 1, 2014
Popular and security efforts succeeded in nipping a sectarian strife in the bud.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 24, 2014
A year passed after the events of al-Diyābiyah village in Wastá Beni Suef, in which 12 houses and shops belonging to Copts were looted and burnt and 4 Copts were injured severe injuries in their eyes.
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 23, 2014
A number of Muslims in the Daqūf Village in Samalūt has saved yesterday the Church of Virgin Mary in the village from a fire due to an electrical spark.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 5, 2014
“Yes, I am the one who killed the policeman and my mother and father are both infidels. I practice jihad against any person who fights religion.” In these words the prime defendant in the case of killing the policeman who was securing a Church in 6th of October City confessed to his crime in...
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 21, 2014
ISIS announced through a video recording that it slaughtered American Journalist James Foley who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012.