Coptic Christians in Egypt anxious, fear troubles over anti-Muslim film
CAIRO - Christians gathered Friday in front of a Cairo cathedral holding signs denouncing a film that mocked the Prophet Muhammad amid fears that Muslims will take out their anger on Egypt's minority community.www.denverpost.com
'Let's Go Upstairs and Get Him'
Saber is from a family of Coptic Christians, which make up an estimated 10 percent of the Egyptian population. Many have been on edge during the recent unrest, worried that tensions with Muslims may be inflamed in the outcry over the film.www.thedailybeast.com
Anti-Muslim film: Patrols stepped up at Coptic Christian churches
Local law enforcement authorities are stepping up patrols around Coptic Christian houses of worship to deter those who might target them because the producer of an anti-Muslim movie that sparked unrest in the Middle East has ties to the religion.latimesblogs.latimes.com
Anti-U.S. outrage over video began with Christian activist's phone call to a ...
Morris Sadek, a Coptic Christian who lives in suburban Washington, D.C., whose anti-Islam campaigning led to the revocation of his Egyptian citizenship earlier this year, had an exclusive story for Gamel Girgis, who covers Christian emigrants for al ...www.kansascity.com
Coptic Christians In US Fear 'Terrible' Reaction In Egypt To Muhammad Film
Enlarge Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Father Mina celebrates the Christmas Nativity Liturgy, the start of Christmas, at the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. George on Jan. 6 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Coptic churches around the country have witnessed a surge of ...www.npr.org
Q&A: Coptic Christians on film sparking protests
Coptic Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the largest Christian church in Egypt. The church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ...www.google.com
Q&A: Who are Coptic Christians, what do they think of a film sparking Middle ...
LOS ANGELES - The key figure behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, says he is Coptic Christian. The film has sparked protests in the Middle East and is implicated in an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador ...www.washingtonpost.com
Controversy over anti-Islamic film shines light on Coptic Christianity
The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church released a statement Wednesday condemning the film, its funding and its production.religion.blogs.cnn.com
O.C. Coptic Christians watch turmoil closely
Joseph Boules of Anaheim's St. Mary & St. Verena Coptic Orthodox Church was been busy today giving interviews to refute the idea that the Coptic Church supports for the film that's been blamed for recent violence in the Muslim world.www.ocregister.com
Egypt's Christians anxious, anticipate troubles
CAIRO - Christians gathered Friday in front of a Cairo cathedral holding signs denouncing a film that mocked the Prophet Muhammad amid fears that Muslims will take out their anger on Egypt's minority community.www.huffingtonpost.com
Writer of inflammatory film a Coptic Christian with a checkered past
An Egyptian protester throws stones toward riot police next to a burning police car during clashes near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Sept.www.washingtontimes.com
Coptic Bishops Blast Sadek, Nakoula And Abdelmasih, Copts Behind Anti ...
(RNS) Coptic Christian leaders in the United States distanced themselves from an anti-Muslim film that has sparked protests in more than 24 countries, and denounced the Copts who reportedly produced and promoted the film.www.huffingtonpost.com
After anti-Islam movie, Egypt's Christians anxious watching Islamists' street ...
Now U.S. authorities have identified a self-described Coptic Christian living in California as the key figure behind the inflammatory film, and the community at home fears it will bear the brunt of the blame.www.washingtonpost.com
Coptic Christians condemn anti-Muslim film, distance themselves from alleged ...
Coptic Christians in Southern California are distancing themselves from the alleged director of an anti-Muslim film that some observers say has sparked deadly violence in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East.www.scpr.org
New Coptic Christian Pope to Be Number One Target of Radical Islamists?
The body of Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, is displayed for public viewing inside the Abassiya Cathedra in Cairo March 18, 2012.global.christianpost.com
Californian Coptic Christians Distance Themselves From Anti-Muslim Filmmaker
...the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California & Hawaii strongly rejects dragging the respectable Copts of the Diaspora in the latest production of an inflammatory movie about the prophet of Islam.www.businessinsider.com
Anti-Islamic film blasted by both Copts and Muslims
LONG BEACH -- Egyptian- Americans throughout Southern California acted quickly to limit friction between ethnic Christian and Muslim communities in the wake of an anti- Islamic film linked to a Cerritos man believed to be an Egyptian Coptic Christian.www.dailynews.com
What journalists need to know about Coptic Christians
The Coptic Christians are another name for Egyptian Christians. Coptic comes from the Greek word for the ancient capital city of Egypt, Memphis.www.poynter.org
Coptic Christians Share Their Opinion About Film Protest
The Associated Press contacted His Grace Bishop Serapion to find out the Coptic Christians' opinion about the denigrating film, "Innocence of Muslims", who sparked lots of protests.www.dailygossip.org
Coptic Christians Now Under Siege in America
Local law enforcement authorities are stepping up patrols around Coptic Christian houses of worship to deter those who might target them because the producer of an anti-Muslim movie that sparked unrest in the Middle East has ties to the religion.frontpagemag.com
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