News & Reports

By Daraj (*) – For a long time, Christians in Egypt have struggled to become professional football players, often failing, and finding no role models on the field to inspire them. This lack [...]

By NYT – The deaths of two men have reverberated across Pakistan, where the charge of insulting Islam has long been a sensitive issue. The entrance to the district police headquarters in [...]

By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Switzerland participated on Sept. 22 in the official celebration of the Feast Day of St. Maurice, the patron saint of Switzerland, in St Moritz, [...]

By NYT – For years, a U.N. team has painstakingly exhumed mass graves, but now the Iraqi government is ordering it to leave. Many sites remain unexamined. The hours have been long, the [...]

By Vivian Yee – NYT – It’s so hot in Cairo that people like to go out all night. It might look like a party, but in reality, one shopkeeper said, “everybody is dead on the inside.” Ten [...]

Hundreds were killed in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday (Aug 25) after suspected jihadists opened fire on them as they were digging trenches around a town to protect it from attacks, [...]

The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced the launch of the first specialized academy for training Coptic football players. The academy aims to train these players and pave the way for them to [...]

By CIHRS – Ten Egyptian human rights organizations submitted a joint report on the human rights situation in Egypt, in preparation for the fourth session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of [...]

By Kendall Tietz – Fox News – Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ): “News of his hunger strike makes it more urgent than ever that he be released.” A father of five has been detained in Egypt for over [...]

By NYT – Gov. Philip Murphy has selected George Helmy, his former chief of staff, to finish Senator Robert Menendez’s term, passing over Representative Andy Kim, the Democratic nominee. [...]