News & Reports

By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land [...]

By Frank Gardner – BBC security correspondent– The Archbishop of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, has accused Britain’s Christian leaders of failing to do enough in [...]

By MEMRI – Introduction Since the ouster of Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi in 2013 and the rise to power of President ‘Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, the regime under Al-Sisi’s [...]

By Bryant Harris – Al-Monitor – After years of giving Egypt a pass on its human rights record, House lawmakers are starting to tighten the purse strings on Cairo. The foreign aid [...]

By AsiaNews – The High Lahore Court has acquitted two men accused of lynching and burning alive Shahzad and Shama Masih, a poor Christian couple they believed to be guilty of blasphemy. In [...]

By Asia News – Iraqi leaders and the powers-that-be must “put their political differences aside, and be the voice of moderation, national sovereignty and tolerance,” writes [...]

By Gilgamesh Nabeel and Mina Nader – Religion News Service –  A Saudi billionaire whose father endowed a chair in comparative religion at the American University in Cairo has [...]

By AINA – Four Assyrian children and one Assyrian woman were killed in a terrorist attack on the government controlled town of Suqaylabiyah, in the Hama province of Syria. The funeral [...]

By BBC– Gunmen have killed six people including a priest as Mass was being celebrated in a church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, officials say. The attackers, said to number between 20 [...]

By Euan McKirdy and Sophia Saifi – CNN Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman freed from death row last year has arrived in Canada, according to her lawyer, Saif Ul Malook. Bibi, a mother [...]