In 2016, after Copts in the village of Manshiet El-Naghamish applied to build a church, locals organized and attacked the Christians. Egyptians looted and burned Coptic properties and assaulted Copts.
Seven Coptic Christians were killed in an attack on two buses near a monastery in Minya on Friday. The Islamic State (IS) group has said it carried out the attack. It was the latest in a series of ...
Hundreds of people gathered in Minya for the funerals of six Coptic Christians killed by millitants Coptic Christians have gathered in Egypt to take part in the funerals of a group of pilgrims ...