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Egypt Copts Mark Solemn Good Friday
Egyptian Copts observed a solemn Good Friday with prayers and fasting, as the community reeled from two church bombings...
Egypt Copts Mark Solemn Good Friday
Egyptian Copts observed a solemn Good Friday with prayers and fasting, as the community reeled from two church bombings...
Egypt Church Curtails Easter Celebrations After Bombings
Egypt's Coptic Church announced on Wednesday that it would cut back Easter celebrations to a simple mass after twin...
Egypt Parliament Approves State of Emergency
Egypt's parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved a three-month state of emergency declared by President Abdel Fattah...
Egypt Mourns Coptic Church Attack Victims
Funerals have been held in Alexandria for victims of one of the two bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt by...
Egypt Under Emergency Rule After Church Attacks
Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after...
Pope Still Plans Egypt Visit Despite Bombings
Pope Francis will visit Egypt as planned this month despite the weekend bombings of two Coptic Christian churches that...
Gory Images As ISIS Bombs Churches On Palm Sunday
The Egypt bomb blasts occurred on Palm Sunday; a Christian feast commemorating the entry of Jesus Christ into...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Syria ‘chemical’ Attack
International outrage is mounting over a suspected chemical attack that killed scores of civilians in a rebel-held town...
US Teen Pleads Guilty To 2015 Islamic State Plot To Kill Pope
A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to an allegedly Islamic State-inspired plot to kill Pope Francis during his US...
Slain Student’s Parents Urge Pope To Raise Case With Egypt
The parents of Giulio Regeni, the Cambridge University student tortured to death in Egypt last year, appealed Monday to...
Pope Francis Calls For Peace In DR Congo
Pope Francis on Sunday called for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, urging an end to the bloodshed in the...