News & Reports

By POMED – After the Third Circuit Court renewed Patrick George Zaki’s detention order on April 5, his defense said that the judge was unqualified to manage Zaki’s detention [...]

By Thomas D. Williams Breitbart – via AINA – Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako issued a bold proposal Monday for the establishment of a secular state in Iraq, separating religion from [...]

By Madeleine Nader – Watani On 14 March 2021, Egypt’s State Council approved the appointment of a number of women judges, a first in the history of the Council. The State Council is Egypt’s [...]

By I C C – On March 13 19-year-old Coptic Marian Rafat was attacked while leaving church in Al Fashn center, Beni Suef Province. A man named Gamal Nasser approached her and was harassing [...]

By Alexei Krindatch – National Coordinator for the Second Census of US Orthodox Christian Churches / 2020 US Religion Census The 2020 National Census of Orthodox Christian Churches was part [...]

By Al-Monitor – Egypt announced a new archaeological discovery in the Bahariya Oasis with archaeological buildings dating back to the fifth and seventh centuries, where monks settled down. [...]

By Jasmine Taylor-Coleman – BBC News – “They said, ‘You are a savage and dangerous woman.’ “I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and [...]

By Al-Monitor – Seif, who had been in pretrial detention since June, was convicted Wednesday of spreading false news and misusing social media. Egypt has sentenced prominent activist Sanaa [...]

Editor’s Note: Coptic Solidarity and the CIHRS worked jointly on this advocacy letter with international parliamentarians. Ramy has now been in solitary confinement for nearly 16 months and [...]

On March 5, 2021, Coptic Solidarity Executive Committee Member, Mrs. Ghada Melek, participated in a virtual parallel event to the United Nations Human Rights Council 46th Session. This important [...]