News & Reports

By Sura Ali – Rudaw – AINA – Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako said on Friday that Christians will not vote in Iraqi parliamentary elections because of concerns [...]

By POMED – On July 15, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a Q&A demonstrating the significant shortcomings of Egypt’s 2019 NGO law, which “does not ease restrictions on freedom of [...]

By POMED – On July 12, Hossam Bahgat, founder and executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), announced that prosecutors had referred him to trial on bogus [...]

By Christian Post – Parents of the more than 140 students abducted from a Christian boarding school in Nigeria have been holding vigil outside the school, crying out to God and praying [...]

ROME (AP) — Italian lawmakers on Wednesday formally called on the government to grant citizenship to an Egyptian student and human rights activist enrolled at an Italian university, who has been [...]

By Al-Monitor – The Egyptian government and pro-state media have launched campaigns against well-known Salafi sheikhs. Meanwhile, a series of decisions banning them from preaching at [...]

By Daily News Egypt – The United States (US) has provided Egypt with over $50bn in military assistance and $30bn in economic assistance since 1978, US Ambassador in Egypt Jonathan R. Cohen [...]

By Christianity Daily – The Christian church in Iran is worried that it will most likely suffer increased persecution under the leadership of former Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi who was [...]

By Katrine Faragallah – Watani This morning, Egypt lost Onsi Sawiris, head of the Sawiris family and a name widely acknowledged in Egypt as a tycoon who served his country honourably [...]

By Aleteia – USCIRF concerned about sentences for blasphemy and proselytizing. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) this week condemned several court [...]