News & Reports

By: The New York Times – A stay-at-home mother deprived of an education, Damiana Nassar played a woman much like herself in “Feathers,” a Cannes winner that few in Egypt can see. AL BARSHA, [...]

By Mada Masr – Over two days in late January, dozens of Coptic Christian residents of the village of Ezbet Farag Allah in Minya staged a demonstration in front of the Diocese of Samalut to [...]

By POMED – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lobbyist and former House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chair Ed Royce is “contributing to, and benefiting from, human rights [...]

By The Associated Press – Germany’s top diplomat says that human rights criteria will be at the center of her new government’s international arms sales, including to Egypt, a major importer [...]

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 [...]