Over 100 Coptic Christian Teenagers Arrested in Egypt

By Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

EGYPT (ANS) — Egyptian State Security has intensified its intimidation of the Coptic Church and Christians in Nag Hammadi, and neighboring Bahgoura, by carrying out random arrests of Christian youth.

According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih writing for the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), the ongoing campaign against Christians started on Jan. 7 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Christian Arrested by Egyptian Security for Praying At Home

By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

EGYPT ANS – Egyptian State Security recently arrested a Christian Copt in the village of Deir Samalout, Samalout, Minia province, for praying “without a license.” Read the rest of this entry »

Stabbing and Bombing Attacks Near Two Churches in Egypt

Compass Direct News reports:

In separate attacks in Egypt earlier this month, a Coptic Christian suffered severe stab wounds as he left a worship service in Minya, and a car-bombing outside a venerable church in Cairo disrupted a wedding.

Without provocation, three Muslims repeatedly stabbed Coptic Christian Girgis Yousry, 21, as the army conscript was leaving the gates of the church of Saint Mary in Minya, Upper Egypt on May 2, according to Copts United.

The assault left him with severe injuries to internal organs, and he was taken to the district hospital, where he was still receiving treatment at press time.

Read the full story at Compass Direct News

Convert Arrested for Marrying Christian

Compass Direct News reports:

ISTANBUL – Christian convert Raheal Henen Mussa and her Coptic husband are hiding from police and her Muslim family for violating an article of Islamic law (sharia) that doesn’t exist in the Egyptian penal code. Read the rest of this entry »

Death Sentenced Urged by Islamic Lawyers for Egyptian Convert

Compass Direct News reports

ISTANBUL – In the latest hearing of a Muslim-born Egyptian’s effort to officially convert to Christianity, opposing lawyers advocated he be convicted of “apostasy,” or leaving Islam, and sentenced to death. Read the rest of this entry »