Tag: coptic christians
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Coptic march Melbourne – What you didn’t see
H/T Free Copts Gates of Vienna also asks “Where is Freedom of Religion?”
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Report: Egyptian State Security Accused of Cover-up in Muslim Riots
From the Assyrian International News Agency. (HT: The Volokh Conspiracy): Cairo (AINA) — In an effort to cover up the Muslim mob violence against the Copts which broke out last week in the town of Farshoot and neighboring villages (AINA 11-22-2009, 11-23-2009), and in view of the complete news blackout imposed by the Egyptian government,…
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A ‘somber’ time for Egypt’s Copts
From the Times (UK): The first two months of the Coptic new year have been a somber time for Egypt’s ancient Christian community. The new year fell on the inauspicious date of September 11. And a spate of attacks on this large and downtrodden community by Islamist extremists or villagers giving a religious pretext to…