Tagged with "Coptic Christians in Egypt"

Egypt’s new govt calls for anti-Christian measures?

Are Egypt’s Christians again fated to watch their nation take one step forward only to take another one right back -- the inevitable outcome of a worldview that tries to articulate itself through Islamic terms?
by Raymond Ibrahim - 15 June 2014
Islamic Jizya-Vigilantes target Christian minorities

If Christian infidels are not made to pay jizya (tribute) to the state -- as Koran 9:29 mandates -- the “jizya-vigilantes” will get that money one way or another. Welcome to the unfolding horror of Christians in the Islamic world
by Raymond Ibrahim - 15 March 2014
Al-Qaeda: Defender of Christians?

The more sophisticated Jihadists have started to understand that their apologists in the West are having a hard time justifying their slaughter of helpless Christians. So now they're effecting fake concern
by Raymond Ibrahim - 5 February 2014
A brighter future for Egypt’s Christians?

Egypt’s Copts are hopeful the new constitution will alleviate persecution. Unfortunately “could” and “should” don’t equate to “will” and Egypt has a long history of Muslim persecution of Christians
by Nick Gray - 23 January 2014
Terror of Christian Coptic kids abducted in Egypt

Latest kidnapping of Christian Coptic child in Egypt raises fears as pattern emerges of young children being abducted and sometimes tortured and killed whether the ransom is paid or not
by Raymond Ibrahim - 16 January 2014
The winter of Christian discontent in the Arab world

Too many "well-meaning" individuals and groups have swallowed the fallacious Palestinian Narrative of Victimhood in the Middle East and fail to recognize that the Christians living there are the real victims. But in one MidEast country Christians thrive
by Michael Curtis - 28 December 2013
Christmas in Islamic world is a life or death experience

Be shocked by these examples. As Christians in the West go to church and worship during this Christmas season, it is well to reflect on how merely going to church to worship can be life-threatening for Christians in the Islamic world. One can only hope -- perhaps in vain -- that this Christmas does not add new victims to a very long list
by Raymond Ibrahim - 24 December 2013
Repressing Christians through an Islamised Jesus

In a new and perverse twist to the oppression of Christians in the Muslim world, a leading cleric in Egypt is using an Islamised Jesus to promote religious-totalitarian aims
by Raymond Ibrahim - 29 November 2013
Ignoring Egypt's brutalised Christians

Islamists in Egypt are responsible for destroying nearly 100 Christian churches. Western policy is all over the place, and the media is largely ignoring it
by Raymond Ibrahim - 25 October 2013
Persecuting Christians? Or demonising Israel?

In our ongoing series, it is a source of amazement that mainstream Christian churches prefer to focus on demonising the Jewish state rather than protecting their oppressed brethren
by Michael Curtis - 7 October 2013
Islamism's slow genocide against Christianity

There's a global religious genocide on “slow burn” with occasional conflagrations that make it into the mainstream media. There are an estimated 100 million persecuted Christians
by Noah Beck - 20 August 2013
Mideast Christians: endangered in their ancestral land

As new Islamist regimes in the Middle East condone religious intolerance and introduce Sharia and blasphemy laws, the long-term trend for Christians in their ancestral lands will only grow bleaker
by Noah Beck - 9 August 2013
Morsi's demise good news for Egyptian democracy

Morsi reverted to the same undemocratic policies that he was elected to change, effectively replacing a secular autocratic rule with an Islamist one
by Noah Beck - 8 July 2013
Sectarian violence in Egypt sees two churches attacked in one week

Various reports state that two Christian churches were attacked in Egypt last week, ending in the death of a Coptic man
by The Commentator - 20 May 2013
What about persecuted Christians?

The Church of Scotland needs to ask itself why it is ignoring the suffering of Christians (and other religious and ethnic minorities) who are suffering terrible acts of violence outside of the Holy Land
by Dexter Van Zile - 9 May 2013