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Egypt’s Claim of Killing Suspected Executioners of Christian Suspicious

By Morning Star News – The Egyptian Interior Ministry’s claim – a day after Islamic terrorists released a video showing the execution of a 62-year-old Christian grandfather – that police [...]

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U.S. Recognizes Massacres of Armenians as Genocide

The Wall Street Journal – Historic statement will likely exacerbate tensions with Turkey, whose relationship with the U.S. has deteriorated in recent years. President Biden formally [...]

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Open Letter Urges Biden Administration to Not Waive Conditions on Egypt Aid

By POMED – On April 22, 2021, the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), along with 13 other human rights and civil society organizations, sent a letter to Secretary of State [...]

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An Advocacy Group Contradicts Egypt’s Official Rhetoric on the Situation of Copts

By Shady Negm – Special to the Tablet – CAIRO — Last January, the Egyptian embassy in Washington D.C. published a document titled “Strengthening National Unity: Religious Freedom and [...]

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USCIRF Releases 2021 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. Policy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 21, 2021 USCIRF Releases 2021 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. PolicyNo Longer Recommends Three Countries for Special Watch List  Washington, D.C. – The [...]

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Coptic man Executed by Daesh in North Sinai

By Watani – Nabil Habashy Salama who was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home town of Bir al-Abd in North Sinai by Daesh, was executed by his captors. A video showing the execution was [...]

Joint NGO Letter to President Biden for Ramy Kamel’s Release

April 15, 2021 President Joseph R. BidenThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NWWashington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden, We write to you as an informal group of  43 organizations and [...]

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Christian Nurses Attacked, Arrested under Blasphemy Law in Pakistan

By Morning Star News – Two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday (April 9) after [...]

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Killer of Coptic woman in Beni Mazar confesses crime

By Watani – A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The [...]

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Egypt drops decade-old charges against NGOs

By Al-Monitor – An Egyptian investigative judge recently dropped charges against 20 NGOs involved in the 2011 foreign funding case that has raised global condemnation, in a move seen as a [...]