Europe ups security for Copts amid online threats

Release Date 4 Jan, 2011 in Atlanta Journal Constitution

 
   
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Coptic parishes increase security

Macleans.ca - 4 Jan, 2011
Copts in Canada and in Europe are increasing security at churches after a New Year's Day suicide bombing at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt killed 21 ...

Islamists 'build their scapegoat' for church bombing

Jerusalem Post - Steven Emerson - 4 Jan, 2011
ANALYSIS: A Muslim Brotherhood official, Egyptian lawyers group, Lebanon's grand mufti have all blamed the Jews, though they offer varying ...

EGYPT: Coptic pope demands tackling grass-roots sectarian problems

Los Angeles Times - 4 Jan, 2011
While calling on his fellow Copts to maintain calm despite their frustration and grief over a church bombing that left 25 dead on New Year's Eve, ...

Europe ups security for Copts amid online threats

Washington Post - 4 Jan, 2011
AP CHATENAY-MALABRY, France -- Metal barricades now surround the church of St. Mary and St. Mark outside Paris, a sign of stepped up security for the ...

Coptic church officials on alert around the world

Christian Science Monitor - Ariel Zirulnick - 4 Jan, 2011
Coptic church officials from Europe to Australia, whose churches are designated by an Islamist website as targets, have become concerned about fresh attacks ...

What to read? 3 intriguing memoirs for early 2011

Christian Science Monitor - 4 Jan, 2011
Recent attacks against Christians in Egypt and Iraq have drawn attention to the Middle East's Christian populations, which are dwindling as Christians flee ...

Security Increased Around European Coptic Churches

Voice of America - Lisa Bryant - 4 Jan, 2011
Photo: AP Father Girguis Lucas uses his cellphone before addressing reporters, inside the Coptic church Sainte Marie Saint Marc of Chatenay-Malabry, ...

European Coptic churches on alert

CNN International - Fred Pleitgen, Saskya Vandoorne - 4 Jan, 2011
By the CNN Wire Staff European Coptic churches are on high alert following the New Year's Day bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. ...

Egypt church blast death toll rises to 23

Reuters Africa - 4 Jan, 2011
CAIRO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The death toll from a New Year bombing outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria has risen by two to 23, the official ...

Egypt bomber planned blast inside church: police

AFP - 4 Jan, 2011
CAIRO â€" A suspected suicide bomber who killed 21 people outside a church probably intended to set off the explosives during a mass inside to kill as many ...

Egypt church attack - 2 more die

News24 - 4 Jan, 2011
This book describes a locale whose trans-cultural heritage serves as a crucial hinge. Was R400.95 Now R372.88 Cairo - Two more people died of injuries ...

Egypt terrorism expert: Church bombing evidence points to Qaeda in Iraq

Ahram Online - 4 Jan, 2011
Egyptian Muslims and Christians raise a copy of the Quran and the Bible in Shubra district of Cairo, late Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 to protest against the ...

Copts nervous after Egypt church attack

Al Jazeera - 4 Jan, 2011
The New Year's day bombing of a church in Alexandria has left many in Egypt's Coptic Christian community frustrated and nervous, judging by the protests for ...

Defending all religious rights

The Australian (blog) - 4 Jan, 2011
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak blames foreigners for the bombing of a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria which killed 21 worshippers and wounded 100, ...

Egypt is on high alert over Coptic holiday

Montreal Gazette - 4 Jan, 2011
Egypt was on high alert on Monday ahead of Coptic Christmas in the wake of a New Year's Day church bombing as investigators hunted the perpetrators of the ...

Coptic pope asks Egypt to act

The Australian - 4 Jan, 2011
From: AP THE head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church appealed to the government yesterday to address Christians' complaints about discrimination amid riots ...

Has Egypt's government abandoned Alexandria?

The Australian - Farid Farid - 4 Jan, 2011
LEONARD Cohen's song Alexandria Leaving borrows freely from Constantine Cavafy's 1911 poem The God Abandons Antony. Cavafy captures Mark Antony's feelings ...

Egypt's ailing regime now cares only for its own survival

The Guardian - 4 Jan, 2011
While hundreds of millions of people all over the world were celebrating the new year, Egypt's celebrations turned into a night of mourning just a few ...

Egypt's Pope Shenouda calls for calm and action

Ahram Online - 4 Jan, 2011
Egypt's Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, appealed for calm following the bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria New Year's ...

2011 And The War On Christianity

Sky News (blog) - 4 Jan, 2011
It took all of 20 minutes into 2011 before the first of what will be many atrocities against Christians was carried out. The first blow came at 00.20 ...

ANALYSIS-Egypt church attack to fuel sectarian tension

Reuters Africa - Edmund Blair, Sherine El Madany - 4 Jan, 2011
CAIRO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The New Year's Day bombing of a church suggests al Qaeda-inspired militants have a toe-hold ...

Egypt Citizens launch initiatives against attack on Copts

Ahram Online - Ekram Ibrahim - 4 Jan, 2011
The shock of the horrific attack on the Saints Church in Alexandria at half past midnight on January 1 has triggered a host of common Muslim-Coptic ...

Shura Council recommends stiffening penalties for terrorist acts

Ahram Online - Gamal Essam El-Din - 4 Jan, 2011
Egypt's Shura Council â€" the upper house parliament â€" devoted its Monday session to discussing the repercussions of the terrorist attack which hit ...

Coptic Churches Threatened in France After Egypt Attack, Le Figaro Reports

Bloomberg - Matthew Campbell - 4 Jan, 2011
French police and intelligence officers are preparing for possible attacks on Coptic churches in and ...

Copts in Canada step up security for church holiday

Vancouver Sun - Robert Sibley - 4 Jan, 2011
Ottawa-area Copts, like their brethren elsewhere in Canada, have stepped up security at their churches ...

Egypt's Copts pursue protests after church attack

euronews - 4 Jan, 2011
For the third straight day since a deadly church bombing, Egypt's Coptic Christians have unleashed their anger on the streets. The New Year's Day attack ...

A dangerous mindset

Calgary Herald - 4 Jan, 2011
T he fatal New Year's Day suicide bombing outside an Egyptian Coptic Christian church is a clarion call that change is pressing and overdue in the Middle ...

Egypt's regime under pressure as al-Qaeda link stirs tensions

Deutsche Welle - 4 Jan, 2011
Egypt's regime begins to feel the pressure as suspicions that an al-Qaeda-affiliated group was behind the the New Year's Day bomb attack on a church in ...

Police step up protection of Coptic Christians in Germany

Deutsche Welle - 4 Jan, 2011
Coptic Christians across Europe are on high alert as they continue to receive terror threats in the run up to their Christmas celebrations which climax ...

EGYPT

Washington Post - 4 Jan, 2011
As Egypt went on high alert ahead of Coptic Christmas, Muslims and Christians, many carrying pictures of Jesus and Christian saints, joined ranks in Cairo's ...

 

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