News & Reports

By Marina Makary – Egyptian Streets – Passing by a Coptic church in the narrow alleys of Shubra in Cairo, one can clearly hear the alhan (Coptic hymns) sung in a harmonious, [...]

By Lisa Zengarini– vaticannews (via AINA) – The Patriarch of Baghdad of the Chaldeans, Cardinal Raphael Louis Sako, has warned that Christians in Iraq and in the entire region are [...]

By World Watch Monitor – While Pakistan celebrates 75 years of independence, the Christian minority continues to face discrimination, harassment and violence because of their faith. On [...]

By Jacky Habib – Government policies restricting the construction and renovation of churches in Egypt pose a major health and safety issue, advocates claim. Human rights advocates and public [...]

By Watani – On the evening of 21 August, the Eve of the Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin, a fire that erupted in a small church in Alexandria was extinguished by the fire fighters. [...]

By The Washington Post – The back roads of a working-class neighborhood in greater Cairo transformed into makeshift funeral parlors on Monday, as a community confronted the devastating [...]

By The New York Times – At least 41 people died from smoke inhalation and a stampede when a fire swept through a Coptic Orthodox church on Sunday. The Coptic church was so close to the apartment [...]

Statement by the Spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General: The Secretary-General is saddened by the tragic fire that occurred at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in Giza, Egypt, killing and [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – The blaze started as worshipers gathered for Sunday services and spread to a children’s nursery. At least 41 people were killed and 14 injured when fire ripped [...]

By The New York Times – At least 41 people were killed and at least 12 were injured on Sunday after a fire broke out at a church in the Egyptian city of Giza as worshipers gathered for [...]