Egypt

By BosNewsLife Africa Service CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Eritrean hostages who are being held in Egypt's North Sinai Desert, near Israel, have appealed for international intervention after they were told they would be sold to organ traffickers if a massive ransom is not paid for them, Christian rights activists confirmed Wednesday, January 4.  

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly a year after uprisings tumbled repressive governments in North Africa and the Middle East, there are warnings the region's minority Christians will face more persecution in 2012.  

By BosNewsLife News Center CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Potentially thousands of Christians in Egypt may receive permission to have their faith recognized in new identity cards, after a court ruled in favor of two teenagers seeking to be treated as "Christians" at school, trial observers said.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Rights activists on Monday, December 5, condemned the election victory of Egypt's "anti-Christian" "radical Islamists" in round one of the country's first parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in February.  

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos and Joseph DeCaro CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Egypt "request prayers" amid concerns about deadly violence and political uncertainty, ahead of the country's first parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in February.  

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Egypt have demanded a full investigation after a teenager was reportedly killed in the country's central province of Minya for wearing a crucifix at school.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with reporting from the Netherlands AMSTERDAM/CAIRO (BosNewsLife)-- A visit to Egypt by the Dutch parliament's foreign affairs committee has been canceled because lawmaker Raymond de Roon from anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV) was refused a visa after accusing Cairo of "the ethnic cleansing" of minority Christians.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos CAIRO/BRUSSELS (BosNewsLife)-- The European Parliament (EP) has condemned violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt, after at least 25 were killed and more than 300 wounded by security forces in Cairo during a peaceful protest earlier this month, a key legislator told BosNewsLife Friday, October 28.

By Joseph DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)– An Egyptian Military Court ordered that an imprisoned Christian activist be admitted to a mental health hospital to determine whether he's responsible for his actions, BosNewsLife learned Thursday, October 27

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Egypt's finance minister resigned Tuesday, October 11, saying he wanted to protest the “government's handling" of protests that left at least 26 people dead, most of them Coptic Christians.