May 26, 2017
Egyptian Christians request prayer after gunmen attacked a bus and other vehicles carrying Coptic Christians. According to a statement by the Governor of Minya, 28 are so far confirmed dead (including two children) and 23 have been wounded in the attack which took...
Apr 9, 2017
Christians in Egypt request prayer after two churches in Northern Egypt suffered bomb attacks during Palm Sunday services on 9th April. The first bomb exploded inside Mar Girgis (St George’s) Coptic Orthodox church in Tanta, in Gharbiya governorate in the Nile...
Feb 28, 2017
On 20th February Middle East Concern requested prayer after four Christians were killed in the North Sinai town of al-Arish in three weeks. Unfortunately three more Christians were killed in the following days. Saeed al-Hakim and his son Medhat were killed on 23rd...
Feb 20, 2017
Christians in Egypt request prayer after the killing of four Christians in the last three weeks, and after the publication on 19th February of a video calling for further killings. Wa’el Youssef was shot dead by militants in front of his wife and son in his shop...
Dec 11, 2016
On Sunday morning, 11th December, the compound housing the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo was hit by a bomb attack. At 10am local time a bomb exploded in the Church of St. Peter, adjacent to the main Cathedral. At least 25 people have died in the attack and a...
