CS Releases & Articles

By Coptic Solidarity – Several Coptic Christian leaders and priests recently discussed the closures of their churches.  For example, Fr. Stephen Shehata, undersecretary of the diocese of [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – As often happens to Christian cemeteries in Muslim nations, “the tombs of the Copts are being turned into garbage dumps.”  This was the urgent and recent message from [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Security forces in Upper Egypt arrested 10 Coptic Christians for trying to build a wall around a piece of vacant land in order to expand their current church into the [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – A makeshift bomb was found near a church in Egypt on January 22.  Father Paul of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt found what he described as a “foreign object” [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – During a televised Egyptian talk show that aired on January 18, lawyer Ahmed ‘Abdu Maher called for the “punishment of those who author books that promote strange and [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity is continuously engaged in advocacy on behalf of Copts and other religious minorities in the region, although some of our efforts are conducted [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – I am writing to ask you take a few minutes to take action on behalf of Mohammed Hegazi.  He is being detained in prison as I write this and has a court date scheduled [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Take action today and send a message to your US Representative asking them to cosponsor a resolution that supports the repeal of blasphemy laws.  Congressman Pitts, a [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – According to Arabic media, the Islamic State has “arrested, if not executed, some youth [five] in the city of Raqqa [in Syria] for befriending and greeting Christians [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – According to the recently published testimony of Karam Sa‘ad—a former sergeant in the Iraqi army who was imprisoned and tortured by the Islamic State in June 2014 but [...]