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By USCIRF –  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2019 Victims Database Also Announced Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released [...]

By Vivian Yee – The New York Times – The lone protester stood in an affluent corner of Egypt’s capital on Sunday, nearly an hour’s drive from the downtown square where tens of [...]

By Vivian Yee – The New York Times — The message blared from social media videos, from banners too big to miss, and from the upbeat Election Day songs playing so boisterously on jumbo speakers [...]

By WSJ — A series of blasts tore through churches and international hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter morning, killing at least 207 people and wounding more than 450 in a coordinated series of [...]

By Watani – A building which doubles as a small church and community centre for the Coptic villagers of Naja Khalafallah Jaber in Sohag, some 500km south of Cairo, was closed by the police [...]

By Amr Eltohamy – Al-Monitor – Egypt’s Al-Azhar has had a significant presence abroad in recent years, especially in its efforts to counter the effects of the Islamic [...]

By Office of US Congressman French Hill – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: April 9, 2019 Rep. Hill Calls on President Trump to Defend Coptic Christians in Meeting with Egyptian President el-Sisi [...]

By USCIRF – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned recent comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatening to convert the [...]

By BBC– A prominent Egyptian activist has been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for organising an illegal protest, his family says. Alaa Abdel Fattah rose to [...]

By Emily Tamkin – Washington Post –  On Monday, actors Amr Waked and Khaled Abol Naga spoke out against Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi at a Capitol Hill event in [...]