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In 1973, President Anwar Sadat lifted Fuad's and his half-sisters' exile. [21] Fuad's Egyptian citizenship was restored in 1974. He has occasionally visited Egypt ever since, [20] with his first visit occurring in 1991. [18] On his Egyptian passport he has no titles and is simply identified as Ahmed Fuad with job description "previous king of ...
President of Cameroon: 1982 [2] 13 February 1933: 92 years, 19 days 2: Mahmoud Abbas: President of the Palestinian National Authority, President of the State of Palestine: 2005 15 November 1935: 89 years, 109 days 3: Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud : King of Saudi Arabia: 2015 [3] 31 December 1935: 89 years, 63 days 4: Francis
2011 Imbaba church attacks: 7 May 2011 Imbaba: 15 A series of attacks that took place in Egypt on 7 May 2011 against Coptic Christian churches in the poor working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in Giza, near Cairo. The attacks were blamed on Salafi Muslims, the attacks began when Muslims attacked the Coptic Orthodox church of Saint Mina. 232 injured.
Two important Maronite Christian symbols on Sassine Square, Achrafieh: a statue of Saint Charbel, the most important Maronite saint; and a billboard on a side of a building showing Bachir Gemayel, the Maronite militia leader during the Civil War A Christian church and Druze khalwa in Shuf Mountains: In the early 18th century the Maronites and the Druze set the foundation for what is now Lebanon.
On February 27, 1994, at 9:15 am, [7] a bomb exploded under the church altar while worshippers were receiving communion [3] from Father Antoine Sfeir. [7] Five other explosives were found in the church, where more than 200 people were present. [3] C4 explosives and two 81mm mortar rounds detonated. [7] 10 people were killed and 54 were injured. [2]
In 1967, anti-semitic attacks began to appear in Sudanese newspapers following the Six-Day War, advocating the torture and murder of prominent Jewish community leaders, and there was a mass arrest of Jewish men. [279] [280] Jewish emigration intensified as a result. The last Jews of Sudan left the country in the early 1970s.
Historical events that caused the mass-emigration of Arab Christians include: 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus, 1915–1918 Great Famine of Mount Lebanon, 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, 1956–57 exodus and expulsions from Egypt, Lebanese civil war, and the Iraq war.
The 2011 Alexandria bombing was an attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, on New Year, 1 January 2011.Twenty-three people were killed and another ninety-seven were injured, as a result of the attack, which occurred as the Christian worshipers were leaving.