News & Reports

By POMED – Mada Masr reported on January 16 that security forces closed the Mar Girghis Church in the Minya governorate village of Manshiyet Zaafarena after Muslim residents surrounded the [...]

By Mada Masr – Security forces closed a Coptic Christian place of worship in the village of Manshiyet Zaafarana on Friday after an angry mob of Muslim residents surrounded the building and [...]

By Watani – Last week was a painful one for Copts, more so because it came on the footsteps of Christmas joy—Copts celebrate Christmas on 7 January. And this year’s Christmas was a very [...]

By Morning Star News – Police in Upper Egypt evicted Coptic priests and shuttered their church building after an Islamist mob converged on the site over the weekend, according to reports. [...]

By Watani – In the wake of an attack by the Muslim villagers of Manshiyet Zaafarana in Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, against the village Copts, the police closed down the only church in [...]

By MEMRI –  During a January 7, 2017 address at the Al-Khulafa Al-Rashideen Mosque in Sixth of October City near Cairo, Egyptian cleric Samir Hashish referred to a hadith in Sahih [...]

By MEMRI –  Introduction Since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) government of President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in 2013, several TV channels affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim [...]

By Patrick Cockburn – The Independent –  Turkey is recruiting and retraining Isis fighters to lead its invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, according to an [...]

By Al-Monitor – House Democrats sharply rebuked Egypt over its human rights record on Thursday, putting Cairo on a path to lose $300 million in military assistance this year. As part of a [...]

By Egypt Independent – Egypt’s president will inaugurate the country’s biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve Sunday, a day after a deadly bomb blast near a church in a country where [...]