News & Reports

By Patrick Werr – Reuters – Egypt faces an increasingly tough task raising cash for foreign debt repayments after external borrowing quadrupled over the past eight years to help fund a [...]

By MEMRI – It’s A Victory For The Ottoman Empire And For The Islamic Orientation, And A Defeat For Secularism, Supported By The U.S. And The West. Marvelously, Erdogan’s Victory [...]

By Reuters – Campaign included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians. MISRATA, Libya – A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for [...]

By John Burger – Aleteia – Bishop, priest discuss continuing problem of abuse of country’s blasphemy laws, forced conversions, forced marriages … and why mobs can form so [...]

By Barnabas Aid – The warring parties in Sudan have agreed to a seven-day ceasefire that began on the evening of 22 May – although reports indicated that fighting continued in some areas. [...]

Al-Monitor – Experts say the Jordanian Civil Code must differentiate between Christians and Muslims, so that the recent draft law on equal inheritance between female and male Christians can be [...]

Sudanese Christians were wounded by gunfire at a Coptic church in Omdurman, west of Khartoum, on Sunday, while the two parties to the conflict in Sudan exchanged accusations of responsibility for [...]

By Aleteia – Tawadros II celebrating in Rome the 50th anniversary of the meeting between his predecessor and Pope Paul VI. This May 14, the leader of more than 10 million faithful in Egypt [...]

By Aleteia – The 21 people put in orange jump suites, lined up on beach and killed by ISIS, are now to be inscribed not only in the Coptic book of saints, but the Roman Martyrology. [...]

By Australian Associated Press – Two popes have shared the limelight in the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square – Pope Francis and His Holiness Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic [...]