Muslims, Christians clash over 'Martyrs' Church' construction - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Muhammad Ghamrawy

Muhammad Ghamrawy

May 13, 2015

A special forces police officer stands guard to secure the area around Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral before a Coptic Christmas mass in Cairo January 6, 2015. Egypt's Coptic Christmas falls on Wednesday and security is typically tightened at churches ahead of the holiday after a string of attacks on Christian targets over the past years. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: RELIGION MILITARY CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4K8RY — A special forces police officer stands guard to secure the area around Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral before a Coptic Christmas mass in Cairo, Jan. 6, 2015. — REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Coptic Christians who were killed in an attack, in Minya, Egypt November 3, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC193E912290

Places of worship for Egyptian Copts closed after protests

Walid Salah

The burnt and destroyed Evangelical Church are seen in Mallawi at Minya governorate, about 245 km (152 miles) south of Cairo August 17, 2013. Egypt's Coptic Christians, who make up 10 percent of its 85 million people, have coexisted with the majority Sunni Muslims for centuries. Violence erupted periodically, especially in the impoverished south, but the attacks on churches and Christian properties in the last week are the worst in years. Picture taken August 17, 2013. To match INSIGHT EGYPT-PROTESTS/CHURC

Egypt's Minya province flashpoint for Muslim-Christian violence

Safaa Saleh

Minarets of a mosque and the cross above a church are seen at the agricultural road which leads to the capital city of Cairo, Egypt, April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RC11420D7D70

Egypt’s Copts decry recent spate of church closings

Shahira Amin

Coptic Orthodox worshippers attend Christmas Eve mass at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Egypt's administrative capital, 45 kms east of Cairo, on January 6, 2020. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Acquittal in assault of Christian woman casts pall over Christmas for Egypt's Coptic community

Shahira Amin