News & Reports

By CuxNow – Holy Week celebrations this year represent a return to some semblance of normalcy in many places around the world, but in the Nineveh Plains in Iraq, occupied by Daesh (also [...]

By Egyptian Streets – Following multiple incidents targeting Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt during Ramadan, Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and the Head of the Coptic Orthodox [...]

By Watani – A video depicting a Coptic woman announcing her conversion to Islam went viral on social media on Tuesday 12 April. The woman in question, Mariam Waheeb, is from Beni-Sweif some [...]

By BBC – Egyptians are asking questions over the mysterious death of a prominent economist, Ayman Hadhoud, in the custody of security forces. Mr Hadhoud’s relatives were asked to [...]

By Watani – Fr Arsanius Wadid, a Coptic priest who was born in 1966 and ordained a priest in 1995, lost his life on 7 April 2022 when he was stabbed three times, one of them a deadly stab [...]

By The Daily Mail (UK) – A Coptic priest has been stabbed to death in Egypt by a passerby outside a beach club on a popular seaside promenade. The knifeman stabbed Arsanious [...]

By The Washington Post – A knife-wielding man mortally wounded a Coptic priest in an attack at the popular seaside promenade in the northern city of Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt’s [...]

By POMED – At the latest hearing in the trial of researcher Patrick George Zaki on April 5, his lawyers challenged the Emergency State Security Court’s authority to hear his case. Zaki was [...]

By MEMRI – According to Pakistani media reports, three female students of a religious madrassa in the Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan beheaded their female teacher because a 13-year-old female [...]

By: Al-Monitor – Recent fatwas remind Egyptian Muslims that receiving interest on a savings account is permitted, but profiteering from scarce supplies is not. A recent interest rate hike [...]