News & Reports

By USCIRF – The Report recommends 12 countries (including Egypt) for placement on the State Department’s Special Watch List (SWL) based on their governments’ perpetration or toleration of [...]

By J-P Mauro – Aleteia – The new X-ray analysis is said to be more accurate and less destructive than radiocarbon dating. In 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin found [...]

By The National – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said he intends to call for “political dialogue” as the country faces new economic challenges caused by the fallout from [...]

By Reuters – Christians in Egypt celebrated Palm Sunday without limitations on attendance for the first time in two years following a complete easing of coronavirus restrictions in the [...]

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 [...]