CS Releases & Articles

Systematic discrimination and harassment against religious minorities in Egypt and the surrounding region often goes unreported as it does not catch international headlines such as stories of [...]

Wadi Ramsis, a Coptic doctor who was kidnapped in Sinai two months ago was released Monday after “payment of large sums of [ransom] money,” said authorities.   Targeting Copts—especially [...]

The following is an urgent call for help, circulated in a number of sites and posted by the prominent secularist writer Khaled Montaser in his Facebook page. Far from being unique, it highlights [...]

In a move that has many forward-looking Egyptians concerned, the government recently allowed the Salafis to return to preaching in mosques and on television.   Soon after the June 2013 [...]

According to Dr. Muhammad ‘Afifi, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Culture in Egypt, the Islamic State does not acknowledge the sovereignty of any state or their boundaries and seeks [...]

Earlier this week, Reuters confirmed what many suspected…ISIS has been coaching the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The growth of ISIS influence in a country already struggling to contain terrorist [...]

 NGO Briefing and Press Conference will be held in House Cannon Building 402 (CHOB)on Tuesday September 9th at 5:30 PM Theme:  For an internationally protected zone for Yazidis, Christians and [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In an historic visit to the United Nations Security Council and Secretariat General, the widest coalition of Iraqi Christian, Yazidi, and [...]

A Coptic Christian priest in Egypt is appealing to President Sisi to intervene on behalf of a Coptic church being threatened by “religious extremists.”   Four years ago the Coptic Church of [...]

In recent weeks, we have focused on the brutal persecution of religious minorities in Iraq and Syria by ISIS. In the meantime, violent attacks against Copts and other minorities in Egypt have [...]