News & Reports

By POMED – On March 19, the Egyptian government put into effect new media regulations that allow the Supreme Media Regulatory Council without obtaining a court order to block and fine [...]

By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post – Church leaders in Nigeria have said that Christians are experiencing “pure genocide” as 6,000 people, mostly women and children, have been [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  As the Syrian civil war enters what might be its last year, Christians are trying to rebuild in the face of an uncertain future. The conflict, which grew out of [...]

By WorldTribune – In the wake of the horrific shootings at two New Zealand mosques, Christian media outlets and a UN-recognized human rights group have pointed to the lack of interest from [...]

By The Guardian – Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, has been handed a new sentence that her husband said was 38 years in prison and 148 [...]

By Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor – State Department – Executive Summary According to its constitution, Egypt is a republic governed by an elected president and [...]

The following document, an email from Hillary R. Clinton (forwarding an email she’d received) , dating back to Nov. 2011, describes some interesting behind-the-scene interactions between [...]

By NPR – Morning Edition In the Egyptian province with the biggest percentage of Christians, the government has refused to grant permits for churches. Tens of thousands of people have [...]

By Watani – Seven Coptic families from the village of Ali Basha in Shousha, Samalout, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, have fled their village in fear of violence that may erupt against [...]

By Michael Peel – Financial Times – For the EU, the timing could hardly have been worse. Egypt’s parliament this month backed a proposal to extend President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s [...]