CS Releases & Articles

By Coptic Solidarity – Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, Egypt’s premiere Salafi, was once again videotaped inciting hate for and violence against the nation’s Christians, the Copts—including by [...]

  The next 17 days are critical. Here is why: A bill signed into law on December 18th required Secretary of State John Kerry to report to Congress within 90 days on whether the Islamic State [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – On February 1, Priest Awad Flemon of Al-Iman Church in Alexandria, explained how officials closed his church five years ago, leaving it partially constructed.  [...]

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 [...]