An 18-year-old, middle-class Coptic Christian student in Upper Egypt went to school as usual when she found herself caught in ...

Two Christian converts from Islam who were locked in an Egyptian prison and held for three years without trial have been released, religious rights advocates said. Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo and Nour ...

February 15, 2025, marks the tenth anniversary of Daesh (Islamic State, ISIL) releasing the video of the murder of 21 men on ...

Coptic Easter has come and gone. For arcane reasons, Copts, the Christian sect indigenous to Egypt, celebrate the holiday on a different date than western Christians, and last Sunday they did so ...

Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, who is originally from Yemen, was part of a Christian Facebook group that landed him in an Egyptian jail over alleged "terrorism activities." ...

"[A]ll the time extremists here are accusing Christians of being affiliated with the United States," said Mina Thabet, programme manager for minorities at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and ...

Egyptian authorities have released Christian convert Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, who spent three years in prison for his Facebook ...

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For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Coptic Egyptians pray during a funeral ceremony for the remains of the bodies of 20 ...

A Christian man was freed from an Egyptian prison last month after three years of detention over Facebook posts he shared among an online group of converts from Christianity to Islam. Abdulbaqi ...