News & Reports

By Hany Ghoraba – Special to IPT News Egypt’s arrest of a long-sought Muslim Brotherhood leader Aug. 28 is sure to create new challenges for the Islamist group. Acting General [...]

By William E. Farrell, Special To the New York Times – Cairo – September 5, 1981 – President Anwar el-Sadat, denouncing religious factionalism, deposed the nation’s Coptic Pope [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim– Gatestone Institute – Although Tahir Naseem’s teenage killer was apprehended and is being charged with murder, he is, among many people in Pakistan, a [...]

By Bloomberg – Sudan’s transitional government agreed to separate religion from the state, ending 30 years of Islamic rule in the North African nation. Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla [...]

By Egyptian Streets Christian art is often associated with Western imagery, yet it isn’t much acknowledged that Eastern forms of Christian art are also products of their own history, spiritual [...]

Statement by Maria Arena, Chair of Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Isabel Santos, Chair of the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and Mounir Satouri, Foreign [...]

By Amnesty International The alarming uptick in blasphemy accusations across Pakistan underscores the urgency with which the draconian laws that enable abuse and risk lives must be repealed, [...]

By Amnesty International The Fifth Terrorism Circuit Court in Cairo today sentenced exiled Bahey el-Din Hassan, a prominent human rights defender, to 15 years in prison on fabricated charges [...]

By Julia Bicknell  – World Watch Monitor The question of the UK’s Lord Alton on a new UN Day recognised for only the second time this year, the International Day Commemorating the [...]

Par Jean-François Colosimo – National Geographic – En 640, l’Égypte chrétienne passe sous le contrôle des armées arabo-musulmanes. Le destin de la communauté copte bascule : héritière [...]