Mohammed Morsi, ousted Egyptian president, sentenced to death

   

Egypt Islamists get life for Kerdasa church attack

  

Egypt Disputes 'Million Mummy' Discovery - Ministry of Antiquities orders work to stop at site, slams US team for making a 'million mummies' announcement. Says claims are false.

  

Egypt police clash with Islamists: Two dead

             

Egypt plans to dig out 72-kilometer new Suez Canal costing $4 billion

Video of Mass Sexual Assault Taints Egyptian Inauguration VIDEO

  

Mob torches Christian shops in Egypt ahead trial

      

Ancient underground labyrinth found in Egypt ‘contains 3000 rooms with hieroglyphs’ VIDEO

‘One of The Earliest Images of Jesus’ Unearthed in Egyptian Tomb

 

The resemblance between the discovered image of young Jesus (left) and the older Ethiopian Jesus (right) is striking.

Aghapy TV Live Stream - Watch Coptic Christians TV Live Stream from Egypt

Aghapy TV is a Coptic Christian TV station broadcasting in Arabic via satellite to Coptic Christians in Egypt and in North America via Spiritcastsatellite systems.

Coptic TV Live Stream - Watch Coptic Orthodox TV Channel Live Stream

  Coptic TV (CTV) is the official Coptic Orthodox TV station broadcasting in Arabic via satellite to Coptic Christians in Egypt and in North America.

Egyptian police fire tear gas to disperse protest over detentions

   

Egyptian security forces have fired volleys of tear gas and used batons to disperse stone-throwing protesters in central Cairo denouncing a series of arrests connected to a new law against street demonstrations.

Christians threatens to boycott Egypt constitution talks

        

Bishop Paula, a representative in the Egyptian Church, who is part of a committee of fifty tasked with the job of drawing up Egypt’s new constitution, has threatened to boycott the drafting process for the second time.

Egypt 'worst for women' out of 22 countries in Arab world

 

Egypt is now the worst country for women's rights in the Arab world, according to a poll of gender experts.

The study found sexual harassment, high rates of female genital mutilation and a growth in conservative Islamist groups contributed to the low ranking.

Egyptian Christians to be allowed to build Churches without permit of president

 

Copts will be able to build their churches in Egypt freely and will not have to wait a long time for the president's permit. The rule was passed last week in Cairo by the Committee of 50, the assembly which edits alterations of the constitution adopted by Islamists in 2012.

Egyptian Christian Arrested for the Crime of Forming a Facebook Group

Alber Saber, photo from his blog.

Egyptian blogger and computer science student, Alber Saber, has been arrested and charged with insulting Islam.  He is being held in while the investigation continues.

Amid new attacks, Egypt's Copts preserve Christian heritage

 

  photo shows a fresco in the Anba Bishay Church the at the Red Monastery located in the desert on the edge of the Nile River valley, some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Cairo. Little known and rarely visited, the Anba Bishay Church offers a striking example of how Egyptís Orthodox Coptic Church is jealously guarding its heritage against formidable odds _ whether decades of neglect, discrimination by the Muslim majority or the threat of violence by Islamic militants, who have gained significant power since the 2011 ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The protection of its heritage took on greater urgency when 40 churches were wrecked, burned or looted in a pogrom-like wave of attacks in August, blamed on Islamic militants. Coptic leaders call it the worst such attacks in centuries.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo) 

THE RED MONASTERY, Egypt — Locked inside a 6th century church in a desert monastery are some of the jewels of early Christianity — ancient murals in vivid pinks, greens and reds depicting saints, angels and the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus, hidden for centuries under a blanket of black soot.

EGYPT: Church-wedding attack

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Egyptian police are searching for an armed man who killed three people at a church wedding, in the first attack targeting Christians in Cairo since the overthrow of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.

Amid new attacks, Egypt's Copts preserve heritage

 

THE RED MONASTERY, Egypt — Locked inside a 6th century church in a desert monastery are some of the jewels of early Christianity — ancient murals in vivid pinks, greens and reds depicting saints, angels and the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus, hidden for centuries under a blanket of black soot.

Have Egypt's Christians reconciled with the military?

Fear of Islamist rule has driven many Christians to embrace the army, but some cannot forget the killing of dozens of Christian protesters at Maspero on 9 October 2011 

Thousands of demonstrators march to mark the first anniversary of the Maspero protest crackdown, where at least 25 Coptic protesters were killed in 2011

 

 As Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III praised Egypt’s military rulers at Christmas mass in January 2012, Christian youth chanted “down with military rule” from the back of the Cathedral.