Egypt’s PM forms committee to legalise status of churches
By Ahram Online – Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued on Monday a decision to form a committee to legalise the status of churches that were constructed without licenses, in [...]
Case of Copt tortured to death: witnesses threatened
By Nader Shukry – Watani – The lawyers who represent the family of the Copt Magdy Makeen, 54, who died of torture in the police station of al-Ameeriya in Cairo last December, have [...]
To My Muslim Egyptian Friends, I Say I am puzzled
An open letter By: Lofty Basta, MD – My dears, I have to be frank with you. The massacre of 25 Copts and injuring of more than 60 worshipers in the Chapel near the Patriarchate of Egypt IS [...]
منظمة حقوقية تنتقد السيطرة الأمنية على تشكيل لجنة توفيق أوضاع الكنائس في مصر وتطالب بعلنية مناقشاتها وتوسيع عضويتها
المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية ـ انتقدت المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية قرار رئيس مجلس الوزراء بشأن تشكيل لجنة توفيق أوضاع الكنائس وملحقاتها والمباني الدينية المقامة بالفعل وغير المرخصة، وقالت [...]
Egypt & Persecution of Coptic Christians
Mimi Geerges interviews Samuel Tadros, Hudson Institute, and Oren Kessler, Foundation of Defense of Democracies.
Muhammad Married to Mary? For Egypt’s Christians, No “Anti-Defamation of Religions” Protection
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – Recently during his televised program, Dr. Salem Abdul Galil—previously deputy minister of Egypt’s religious endowments for [...]
Egyptian Intellectual Dr. Khale Montaser: Islamic Extremism Does Not Stem From Poverty Or Ignorance; Our Interpretation Of Our Religion Is In Conflict With Modernity
By MEMRI – Egyptian intellectual Dr. Khaled Montaser said that while extremism was once considered to be the outcome of poverty or of one’s environment, this does not explain [...]
Rift escalates, becomes public between Sisi, Al-Azhar
By Al-Masry Al-Youm – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s latest statements to Egypt’s Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb have publically revealed disagreement and tension [...]
Lavrov believes EU avoiding discussions of problems of Middle East Christians
By TASS, Russian News Agency – The European Union is avoiding discussions on the problems of Christians in the Middle East under pretext of political correctness, Russian Foreign Minister [...]
Amid Egypt’s Repression, Few Alternatives
By Eric Trager – Foreign Affairs – Six years ago today, tens of thousands of Egyptians descended on downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding “bread, freedom, and social justice.” [...]
