The Coptic Church memorializes martyrs killed by ISIS terrorists in 2015

CAIRO – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt held its annual memorial for 20 martyrs who were brutally murdered in 2015 by ISIS terrorists, along with another Christian from Ghana.

A year after ISIS terrorists occupied areas of Iraq and Syria and committed horrific massacres against the Yazidis and other Christian minorities, the terrorists targeted and killed Coptic Christians in Egypt, with the aim of ending the Christian presence throughout the Middle East.

On February 15, 2015, ISIS terrorists kidnapped twenty-one Christians, twenty of whom were Egyptian Coptic Orthodox and one individual from Ghana.

Their bodies were discovered in September 2017 in a mass grave. The victims’ bodies were transported to their hometowns in Egypt.

That massacre was met with great condemnation. With the terrorists launching repeated attacks on Coptic churches, the Egyptian army launched military operations to protect those churches.

With the passage of seven years since that massacre, the Coptic Orthodox Church held religious ceremonies to commemorate its martyrs.

The ceremony also shed light on other massacres committed by ISIS terrorists in different regions of the world, as well as the difficult conditions experienced by Christians in the Middle East.