News & Reports

By Shady Negm – Special to the Tablet CAIRO — Last January, the Egyptian embassy in Washington D.C. published a document titled “Strengthening National Unity: Religious Freedom and [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 21, 2021 USCIRF Releases 2021 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. PolicyNo Longer Recommends Three Countries for Special Watch List  Washington, D.C. – The [...]

By Watani – Nabil Habashy Salama who was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home town of Bir al-Abd in North Sinai by Daesh, was executed by his captors. A video showing the execution was [...]

April 15, 2021 President Joseph R. BidenThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NWWashington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden, We write to you as an informal group of  43 organizations and [...]

By Morning Star News – Two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday (April 9) after [...]

By Watani – A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The [...]

By Al-Monitor – An Egyptian investigative judge recently dropped charges against 20 NGOs involved in the 2011 foreign funding case that has raised global condemnation, in a move seen as a [...]

By POMED – After the Third Circuit Court renewed Patrick George Zaki’s detention order on April 5, his defense said that the judge was unqualified to manage Zaki’s detention [...]

By Thomas D. Williams Breitbart – via AINA – Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako issued a bold proposal Monday for the establishment of a secular state in Iraq, separating religion from [...]

By Madeleine Nader – Watani On 14 March 2021, Egypt’s State Council approved the appointment of a number of women judges, a first in the history of the Council. The State Council is Egypt’s [...]