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LOOK: Garbage City Feels Elections Fever

AP | KHALIL HAMRA | Posted 05.22.2012

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CAIRO -- Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on – and living from – the waste of the Eg...

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Who Will Greet Pope Shenouda?

Alaa Al Aswany | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Pope Shenouda III, Arab Spring, Egypt, Egyptian Revolution, Coptic Christians, Culture News

Yesterday the man stood up to welcome Pope Shenouda III, who walked towards him, upright and sprightly. All the wrinkles were gone from his face, his back was straight, he was free of his aches and pains and his hair had turned quite black again.

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Representing Egypt's Coptic Christians, After The Death Of Pope Shenouda III

Kurt J. Werthmuller | Posted 03.21.2012

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In a sense, then, Pope Shenouda came to personify the collective struggles of the Copts -- and so his death has likewise been felt especially deeply by the community as a whole.

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Middle East Christians Keep Wary Eye On Arab Spring

Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Christians in Egypt, Video, Plight of Christians, Coptic Christians, Christianity, Arab Spring Christians, Middle East Christians, Christianity in the Middle East, Christians and Muslims, Christians and Muslims Middle East, Syria, Religion News

By Oren Dorell and Sarah Lynch USA Today CAIRO (RNS) From her home, Samia Ramsis holds a key chain bearing the face of the Virgin Mary as visitors...

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Misreading the Muslim Brotherhood

Kurt J. Werthmuller | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Womens Rights, Camp David Accords, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Coptic Christians, Religious Freedom, Israel, State Department, Egypt Israel, World News

A recent awkward exchange is evidence of the Obama administration's continuing failure to accurately assess and effectively respond to Islamist political successes in Egypt and elsewhere.

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Egypt's Christians Celebrate Christmas Amid Fears

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 03.08.2012

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CAIRO — Egypt's Christians on Saturday celebrated their first Christmas since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, amid tight security and a d...

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Christians at Risk: A Jew's Concern, Part II*

David Harris | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Jews, Muslims, Christianity, Egypt, Middle East, Coptic Christians, World News

How many more Christian churches have to be attacked, how many more Christian worshipers have to be killed, how many more Christians have to pray in fear of harassment, and how many more Christian families have to emigrate before the silence is truly broken?

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Prophet Muhammad Drawing Sparks Clashes In Egypt

AP | AYA BATRAWY | Posted 02.29.2012

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CAIRO — Around 200 Coptic Christians and Muslims clashed in a southern Egyptian province after a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad was post...

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WATCH: Persecuted Coptic Christians Speak

Posted 11.22.2011

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Egyptians don't have it easy. But Copts, the Christian minority in Egypt, have it worse. In the last month, Coptic Christians were attacked while marc...

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Getting Away With It: Egypt's Religious Minorities Need The Rule Of Law

Kurt J. Werthmuller | Posted 01.17.2012

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It is still unclear how Egyptian legislation under increasingly Islamist influence might treat the Copts and other religious minorities, but it is an increasingly grim outlook.

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Coptic Christians Attacked During March

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 01.17.2012

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CAIRO — Attackers threw rocks and broken glass at a march by Coptic Christians in Cairo Thursday, injuring 10, in the latest outbreak of sectari...

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'Arab Spring:' Live by the Media, Die by the Media

Dovid Efune | Posted 01.16.2012

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It is still unclear and appearing increasingly unlikely that the popular Arab uprisings of last spring will amount to any significant progress towards the creation of free and open societies.

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Hundreds March In Egypt To Mourn Slain Christians

AP | AYA BATRAWY | Posted 01.11.2012

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CAIRO — Hundreds of Egyptians marched Friday through Cairo to commemorate 27 people killed last month in clashes with the military that triggere...

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What Do The Copts Mean For The Arab Spring?

Kurt J. Werthmuller | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Arab Spring, Anti-Christian Violence Egypt, Muslim-Christian Relations, Tahrir Square, Coptic Christians, Egypt Copts, Copts, Religious Tolerance, Religion News

During the peak of euphoria in Tahrir Square, many Egyptian Christians set aside their grievances with the Muslim majority. A long-forming pattern of anti-Christian violence has since increased across the country.

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American Taxpayers Aiding the Slaughter of Egypt's Christians

Ken Blackwell | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Christians, Hosni Mubarak, Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Coptic Christians, Egypt, World News

American taxpayers continue to underwrite Egypt 's military regime. Why? We are constantly told that without them, things would be even worse for the Copts.

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Is Atheism The Solution To Religious Persecution In Egypt?

Alexander Goerlach | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Islam, Arab Spring, Middle East, Egypt, Coptic Christians, Wahabi-Salafism, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, Pope Benedict XVI, Egypt Protests, Christians in Egypt, Religious Persecution in Egypt, Religious Tolerance, Atheism, Religion News

In Europe, Christianity was able to adapt its complex theology and philosophy to modernity before sliding into oblivion. Today, moderate Islamic scholars and Muslim liberals are confronted with the same task.

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What Really Happened Sunday Night in Cairo?

Maurice Chammah | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Egypt, Twitter, Citizen Journalism, Cairo, Coptic Christians, Sectarianism, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Journalism, Maspero, World News

What happened on Sunday in Egypt? Over the coming days, international media will clean up its coverage and separate fact from fiction, while the viewers feel like they're getting the real story.

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Not Giving Egypt's Military Junta What It Wants

Neil Hicks | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Human Rights, Violence in Egypt, Egypt Revolution, Human Rights First, Egypt, Coptic Christians, Middle East, Human Rights Defenders, Arab Spring, Democracy in Egypt, World News

The quality of the U.S. relationship with Egypt will be determined by the progress Egypt makes towards democratic governance that protects and upholds the basic rights and freedoms of all of its people.

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Egypt's Copts Fear Empowerment Of Islamist Fundamentalists

AP | By MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 12.10.2011

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CAIRO -- Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country. Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the...

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U.S. Copts Support Christians In Egypt

AP | By JEFF KAROUB | Posted 12.10.2011

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By JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press DETROIT -- Egyptian Christians living in the U.S. said Monday that they are horrified by violence that has erupted...

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Egypt's Coptic Christians Under Siege

AP | By MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 12.10.2011

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By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press CAIRO -- Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country. Now many ...

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Tonight in Cairo

Elizabeth Hampton | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egyptian Military, Coptic Christians, World News

Many Egyptians, Copts and Muslims alike, are fed up with the military and frustrated at the pace of reforms. Democracy has not yet been achieved, and it appears as though time is running out.

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Egypt's Troubling Transition

Dennis O'Brien | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Egypt Protetsts, Coptic Christians, HDNet World Report, Hdnet, Ain Shams, H.A. Hellyer, Hosni Mubarak Trial, Religion, Human Rights, Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Salafism, Hosni Mubarak, Imbaba, Video, World News

Ask an Egyptian, and he or she will likely will tell you the revolution is still going on.

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After The Arab Spring -- What Fall?

Rabbi Samuel April | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Egypt, Nato, Arab Spring, Muslims, Gadaffi, Bible, Coptic Christians, Libya, Middle East, Hezbollah, Hamas, Religion News

What is happening in Egypt and the rest of the Arab countries that have sown their spring planting? What will they harvest this fall?

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Christians at Risk: A Jew's Concern

David Harris | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Jews, Arab Spring, Middle East, Egypt, World News, Coptic Christians, World News

If a page is to be turned in the Arab world's most populous country, it cannot come at the expense of a vulnerable minority. As a Jew, I identify with the Copts' situation.

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