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Egypt Set For Emergency Rule After Church Attacks

Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency Monday after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the...

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Egypt Declares State of Emergency After Deadly Church Attacks

Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic...

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Pressed In Iraq and Syria, IS Lashes Out In Egypt

The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find...

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Islamic State Group Claims Responsibility For Twin Church Bombings In Egypt

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared a state of emergency after two deadly bombings Sunday, the first at...

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Egypt Declares State of Emergency After Deadly Church Attacks

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic...

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Egypt In State of Emergency After Attacks On Coptic Churches

Egypt in state of emergency after attacks on Coptic churches Egypt's president has announced a three-month state of...

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Pope Condemns Egypt Church Blast, Appeals For End To Terror

Pope Francis have condemned the blast that killed at least 21 people and injured 50 Pope Francis, who is due to visit...

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Egypt’s Coptic Churches Hit By Deadly Blasts On Palm Sunday

Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 42 people, officials say. In...

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Alexandria Church Bombing Death Toll Rises To 11

At least 11 people were killed in an Alexandria church bombing on Sunday, hours after a blast killed 25 worshippers in...

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Who Are Egypt’s Coptic Christians?

Egypt's Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo on Sunday, are the Middle East's largest Christian...

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At Least 15 Dead In Egypt Church Bombing

A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered for Palm Sunday...

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At Least 13 Dead In Egypt Church Bombing

At least 13 people were killed Sunday when bomb blast went off in the vicinity of a church in the Egyptian city of...

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Sissi Defends Anti-Jihadists Fight After Copts Flee Sinai

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has defended his government’s strategy in the fight against jihadists in...

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Muslim, Christian Clerics Convene Co-Existence Meeting

Top Muslim and Christian clerics from the Middle East gathered in Cairo on Tuesday for a two-day conference on...

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More Egypt Copts Flee Jihadists In Sinai

Egyptian Coptic Christians fled the Sinai for a second day Saturday following a string of apparent jihadist attacks, as...

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Egypt’s Coptic Christians Flee Sinai After Deadly Attacks

Dozens of Coptic Christian families in Egypt have fled North Sinai province after a number of killings in recent weeks...

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Egyptian Copts Flee Sinai After Suspected Islamic State Attacks

Dozens of Coptic Christians have left Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after a string of jihadist attacks killed three...

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Egypt Church Bombing Toll Rises To 26 Dead

The death toll from last weekend's bombing of a Coptic church in Cairo has risen to 26 after an elderly woman died of...

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22 Killed By Bomb Blast At Coptic Cathedral

St Mark's Cathedral is the seat of Egypt's Orthodox Christian churcH A blast at Cairo's main Coptic Christian cathedral...