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USCIRF Expresses Concern over Reported Attacks on Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt

Saturday, 27 June 2009

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June 26, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is concerned at reports of attacks targeting Coptic Orthodox Christians in the small Egyptian village of Ezbet Boshra-East.
USCIRF has learned that Egyptian authorities reportedly have released from custody all those suspects who were originally arrested earlier this week. Local authorities reportedly are conducting an ongoing investigation even though persons involved in the violence appear to be free.

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Fear of Massacre Grips Christian Village in Egypt; Crops Destroyed

Friday, 26 June 2009

(AINA) -- Fears of an impending massacre has gripped the Christian Copts in the village of Ezbet Boshra, El Fashn, which was scene to Muslim mob attacks on Copts on Sunday (AINA 6-22-2009).

Egyptian State Security has placed only Coptic villagers under curfew since the Muslim assaults on Sunday. According to correspondent Mary Bassit of Copts United, The terrified villagers fear that being confined to their homes, while Muslims are free, might encourage Muslim fanatics to massacre them, especially with the bias of the security forces.

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Muslim Mob Attacks Church and Loots Christian Homes in Egypt

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

(AINA) -- An Egyptian Muslim mob attacked a church on Sunday, 6/21/2009 in the village of Ezbet Boshra-East, El-Fashn, smashing its windows and assaulting Copts with clubs and white weapons, wounding 25 Copts, in the presence and with the instigation of the State Security.

On Monday 6/22/2009, El-Fashn prosecution issued an order for the village priest, Reverend Isaac Castor, to appear before them, on charges of sectarian sedition after three Muslim women accused him of hurling stones at them from inside the church.

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Conversion to Christianity Threatens Public Order: Egyptian Court

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

By Mary Abdelmassih

(AINA) -- An Egyptian court refused on Saturday, 6/13/2009 a request by Muslim-born Maher El-Gowhary, who converted to Christianity 34 years ago, to order the Civil Registry to changer his religious designation on his ID. The Civil registry had refused to amend his State identification documents to reflect his Christian name Peter Athanasious and his Christian affiliation, leading him to file a lawsuit against the Egyptian Ministry of Interior.

According to the Court ruling, the religious conversion of a Muslim is against Islamic law and poses a threat to the "Public Order" in Egypt.

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The Cultural Genocide of Egypt's Christian Copts

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

By Mary Abdelmassih

(AINA) -- The Egyptian Government, In a new step in long-term and premeditated process of obliterating Coptic identity and history, has decided to change the name of the Coptic village of Deir Abu Hennis, in the Upper Egyptian province of Mallawi, Minya. The village was founded in the 4th century AD on the grounds of the Monastery of St. Hennis the Short, a much revered Coptic Saint. The new name chosen by the Government is "Valley of Peppermint."

More than four thousand Coptic villagers demonstrated on Thursday June, 11 against this forced change, vowing to fight to the end to keep the name of their village. They carried banners with slogans such as 'Let us all die and May Abu Hennis live for ever' and "We, the inhabitants of the village refuse the change in the name of our village and we want it to remain as it is. It is our right and our demand"

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Family of Abducted Christian Coptic Teenager Assaulted By Muslim Mob

Tuesday, 09 June 2009

By Mary Abdelmassih

Cairo (AINA) -- In another incident of abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls, 16-year old Nermeen Mitry was abducted by a Muslim man to coerce her into converting to Islam. She was successfully recovered on the same day by her family, who did their own investigation and search to locate her.

Nermeen was abducted from El-Mahalla by Muslim Hossam Hamouda in conspiracy with his aunt Leila Attia; she was hidden away by a third person called Nasser Abu Deif from Assuit in Upper Egypt, at the home of one of his female relatives called Rasha Soliman in Zagazig.

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A Tale of Two Regimes

Tuesday, 09 June 2009

By: The Egyptian Eagle

In the late 1930’s, as politicians around the world were scrambling to avoid any war that could escalate to such a brutal level as the First World War, a dark force was stirring in the heart of Europe; a force so strong, powerful, and driven by hatred that it threatened to wipe out an entire race of indigenous Europeans in less than a decade, and also threatened to take over the world. The Nazi war machine was indeed a powerful beast that would require much sacrifice to destroy, and in those sacrifices we have bitterly wept as we remember those we lost.

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