News & Reports

By MEMRI – “…Sports, Arts Are Not In The Curricula, Little Girls Are Forced To Wear Hijabs – This Is A Breeding Ground For ISIS.” Egyptian author Salwa Bakr said in a May [...]

By The New York Times – Gunmen fired on Catholics celebrating Mass in a usually peaceful part of the country. There was no claim of responsibility. Dozens were believed to be dead after [...]

By The Guardian – At least 50 people killed and dozens more injured in assault during Sunday mass in Ondo state. Gunmen launched an assault on a Catholic church in Ondo state [...]

Jonathan Gornall – Arab News (London)- Coptic Christians in Egypt and in scattered migrant communities across the world celebrated on Wednesday the “Entry of the Lord into Egypt,” an [...]

By Hany Ghoraba- IPT News – The U.S. State Department announced last month that it would remove five organizations from its list of international terrorist organizations. “A [...]

By Al-Monitor – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for a political dialogue with his opponents, but many wonder if the Muslim Brotherhood will be invited to attend. Egyptian [...]

By Watani Intl. – Alexandria Criminal Court, headed by Judge Wahid Sabry, has on 18 May referred the case against Nehru Abdel-Moneim Tawfiq, 60, charged with premeditated murder of the [...]

By MadaMasr- Chair of the National Human Rights Council Moushira Khattab requested on Tuesday evening that imprisoned activist Alaa Abd El Fattah be transferred to an alternative site of [...]

By USCIRF – USCIRF Welcomes Reappointed and Newly Appointed Commissioners, Expresses Gratitude to Outgoing Commissioners. Washington, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious [...]

By EIPR- The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) issued a new report entitled “Female Share – The Inheritance of Egyptian Christian Women between the Constitutional Text [...]