Above us rises a white concrete dome topped by a gold cross, symbols of Coptic Christianity. The church—rebuilt after its destruction by an Islamic mob four months earlier—has a gleaming ...

Five years ago, on a Libyan beach, ISIS militants beheaded 21 orange-clad Christian men in a meticulously choreographed propaganda video. Twenty of them were Coptic Christians originally from ...

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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.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Assistant Professor Candace Lukasik has published her first book “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire” (NYU Press).

Carolyn Ramzy is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Carleton University. She looks at Egyptian Coptic Christian ...