News & Reports

By POMED- President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a surprise announcement on October 25 that he was ending Egypt’s state of emergency, which had been in effect since the April 2017 church [...]

By POMED – On October 25, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that he was ending the country’s state of emergency, which had been in place since April 2017. The 2014 [...]

By France24/AFP – Four Egyptian security officers will go on trial in absentia in Italy on Thursday for the brutal killing in Cairo five years ago of Italian student Giulio Regeni. The [...]

By POMED – On October 7, Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price revealed that Yael Lempert, the acting assistant secretary for the department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, met with [...]

By Siobhán O’Grady – The Washington Post – CAIRO — For years, Western governments and human rights groups have urged Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to ease his [...]

By Mohamed Mandour – Rowaq Arabi The revolution of 25 January 2011 gave most religious minorities in Egypt a genuine opportunity to step into the public sphere, openly practice their [...]

By: NCR- A Catholic priest has described last Sunday’s attacks on villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State as a “massacre” against native people, many of whom are Christian. An estimated 49 [...]

By POMED- Researcher Patrick George Zaki had the second session of his trial on September 28, 19 months after he was arrested for writing about his experiences as a Coptic [...]

By  Christian Post – Afghan Christians are living in fear as the Taliban has declared they will carry out executions and other brutal punishments, including amputations, under Islamic [...]

By POMED – On September 22, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The meeting came [...]