Suffering of the Copts continues in Samalout, Minya, as Ehab Magdy Faragallah, Coptic doctor was kidnapped by masked men under gunpoint.
Father of Engy Fadl Shafik has died of grief after his daughter was kidnapped last February. Kidnappers have been manipulating the family of the girl as they asked the family to bring 50 thousand EGP ransom, and did received them but haven’t return the girl.
At least 5 Coptic Christian families have abandoned Mallawy after receiving serious threats to seize their properties and kidnap their children for ransoms.
Sources in Shura Council told Copts United that a delegation will be sent soon to Libya to investigate killing and torturing 5 Egyptians in Libyan prison after they were charged of preaching Christianity.
Ezzat Ibrahim, human rights activist, told Copts United that a number of masked men have kidnapped a rich Coptic Christian in Assiut called Adel Abdu.
Adel Rizk said that his Coptic Christian sister, Manal, was kidnapped by a Muslim man called Ayman Hussein Desouki, but police haven't arrested this man, which proves they are complicit.
Investigation Customs in Sokhna port has seized 20.000 police suits smuggled form Qatar to Zad company that belongs to Khairat al-Shater, vice president of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Martha Saad, mother of the abducted Coptic minor girl Nadia, said that police is not willing to arrest the abductors whom are well know by them.
Martha Saad told Copts United that her daughter Mariam, student in the fifth grade of the primary school, was dragged along in her school by a Muslim stundent.
Romany Gad, human rights activist, told Copts United that a Muslim lessor has deiced to expel a Christian tenant, only because of his religion.
Sami Diab, human rights activist, told Copts United that militias of the Muslim Brotherhood have attacked the peaceful protesters holding sit-in in front of governorate headquarters in Mansoura.
Dr. Ali Abu al-Kheir, political analyst, told Copts United that a number of militants have attacked the statue of King Ramses in Mansoura trying to demolish it, but many citizens have stopped them.
Brookings, a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions, said in a report “Egypt is at the edge of bankruptcy; it has enough reserves to pay for food and fuel imports for only three more months; the government and the opposition are locked in a game of chicken”.
Magda Naguib, lawyer and activist, told Copts United that a Coptic Christian young man was arrested with 44 man over the rioting during the last week anti-MB demonstrations.
Copts United knew that a group of Islamists have attacked St. George church in Sersanna village, Fayoum, and burned it after they stoned and hurt the Church's priest and a group of ministers.
Ezzat Ibrahim, human rights activist, told Copts United that however the two kidnapped Coptic Christian sisters of Dir Mawas, Minya, are still disappeared, the prosecutor has force their father to waive his accusation to a couple of young Muslims of kidnapping his daughters.
Reports in media said that the U.S. intelligence chief is Muslim who did hajj. John Guadolo, an expert in Islamic affairs, said that president Obama has nominated this Muslim man for such prominent office.
Murad Sami Girgis, Coptic man whose family was displaced from Amiria last year, told Copts United, that he calls on Pope Tawadros II to intervene and solve their problem.
Ezzat Ibrahim, human rights activist, told Copts United that Fanatics in Amshoul village, Assiut, have attacked the Coptic Christians of the village and demolished their shops and houses refusing that Copts may get their share in the subsidized bread, as they make their own bread!
Egyptian activist Manal Tibi said that MB leader Essam el-Erian who called the Egyptian Jews to return to Egypt should have rather called the Egyptian Nubians to do this.
Dr. Ayman Nour , founder of “ Tomorrow of the Revolution party”, told Copts United that the patriotic forces will escalate the matter in case President Morsy insists on ignoring their demands to cancel the constitutional declaration.
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