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The lives of the martyrs have been detailed in a book by Martin Mosebach called The 21 – A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs. [28] An independent short film, The 21 , has been produced by a team of more than 70 artists from 24+ countries to honor the 21 martyrs and will debut for a global audience on February 15th, 2025 - the 10th ...
In December 2014, A Coptic doctor named Magdy Sobhi and his wife were killed by Ansar al-Sharia in Libya. They kidnapped his eldest daughter Catherine, who was later found dead in a desert. [86] [87] The motivation for the killing was found to be religious and not criminal because local police found money in the doctor's apartment untouched.
On 15 February 2015, the Islamic State in Libya released a video depicting the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt. Within hours, the Egyptian Air Force responded with airstrikes against IS training locations and weapons stockpiles, killing 50 militants in Derna . [ 44 ]
However, such deadly attacks on churches and places of worship are rare in South Africa. The Coptic Orthodox Church named the monks killed as Monk Hegumen Takla el-Samuely, Monk Yostos ava Markos ...
On February 12, 2015, the ISIL released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Copts migrant workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they threatened to kill to "avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church". [27]
The Coptic Orthodox Church named the monks killed in South Africa as Monk Hegumen Takla el-Samuely, Monk Yostos ava Markos and Monk Mina ava Markos. All three were Egyptian nationals.
Coptic Egyptians: Feb 15, 2015: 21 On February 15, 2015, IS's al-Hayat Media Center posted a video on Twitter titled "a message signed with blood to the nation of the cross". It showed the beheading of 21 Coptic Egyptian masons by the sea shore in Tripoli, Libya. They were kidnapped from Sirte in late December 2014. [80] Ethiopian Christians
It’s quiet at the Martoba cemetery outside the Libyan city of Derna, despite the presence of dozens of volunteers. Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves.