Minya Security forces have intensified their deployment near the road leading to Saint Samuel Monastery, after gunmen attacked bus passengers on their way to the site on Friday, killing seven and injuring 19.

Egypt’s president has pledged to facilitate the construction of new churches in the wake of a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt, local media has reported.

Egyptian security forces killed 19 militants in an operation launched after a deadly attack on the country’s Christian minority, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

At least seven people were killed and nearly 20 injured on Friday in a militant attack on two buses and one microbus carrying Coptic Christians back from the St. Samuel Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Upper Egypt’s Minya Governorate, according to a statement released by the official spokesperson for the Coptic Orthodox …

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 66 people to life in prison, including Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie, over an August 2013 attack on a police station in Minya.

Nineteen people accused of involvement in a Friday attack on Coptic homes in the Minya village of Dimshaw Hashim were handed 15-day detention renewal orders on Tuesday, according to Isaac Ibrahim, the head of the religious freedoms unit at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).

A Coptic bishop has accused police of ignoring calls to protect Christians ahead of anticipated violence in a village in southern Egypt last Friday.

Egyptian villagers attacked and looted the properties of Coptic Christians in the southern province of Minya in protest at the use of homes and halls for worship, the region’s archdiocese said on Saturday.

Egypt’s highest appellate court on Saturday confirmed the death penalty for six people in connection with violence in the wake of the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

A worker with an analysis tests laboratory opened fire on a car belonging to the patron of a church in Abu Qarqas, south of Minya, targeting the driver because of a previous relationship between the son of the driver and the assailant’s nephew.