News & Reports

By Jack Doyle, Associate Editor for The Daily Mail – Christians are ‘by far the most persecuted’ religious group and are enduring what amounts to genocide in some parts of the [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – Copts face increasing threats under a regime they once hoped would make them more secure. MINYA, Egypt—Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority is facing a surge in [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – White House says effort is ‘working its way through the internal process.’ The Trump administration is seeking to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign [...]

By Watani – The priests of the de-facto church in the Minya village of Ezbet Naguib in Matai, some 220km south of Cairo, have filed an application to Minya Governor asking for licence to [...]

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 [...]