News & Reports

By Filipe D’Avillez – ACN – Christians make up around 15% of the population of Egypt and are as football-crazy as their muslim neighbours, but there is not a single copt in the national team. As [...]

By The Washington Post – Egypt’s president on Wednesday swore in the first-ever Coptic Christian to head the country’s highest court. Judge Boulos Fahmy is the 19th person to preside over [...]

By WorldWatchMonitor – A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him [...]

By Majid Rafizadeh  – Gatestone Institute – In 2021, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi signed two alarming amendments to Articles 499 and 500 of its Penal Code, making it [...]

By Farah Rafik – Egyptian Streets – For millennia, Egypt has been the epicenter of languages that circulated throughout different eras. While some languages withered away, the remnants of [...]

By By Anton Carillo – Christianity Daily (via AINA) – A 90-year-old resident of Idlib, Syria, who is said to be the last Christian in the area, shared the difficulties he encountered [...]

By: Egyptian Streets – Egypt’s earliest memories were printed on papyrus, and its more modern ones, woven into tapestry. Tapestry-making has directed stories in Egypt for well over nine [...]

By POMED – The past few days have seen several updates on the judicial front, including in the case of Marco Gerges, who was sentenced to five years in prison on January 29 on [...]

The Emergency State Security Misdemeanors Court of Mansoura decided on Tuesday to postpone the trial of researcher Patrick George Zaki to the April 6 session for defense pleading. He is accused [...]

By The New York Times – Citing human rights concerns, the United States will not give Egypt $130 million in annual security assistance, officials said on Friday, even as the Biden [...]