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Rep. Hill Calls on President Trump to Defend Coptic Christians in Meeting with Egyptian President el-Sisi

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 [...]

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USCIRF Condemns Erdogan’s Threats to Change Status of Hagia Sophia

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 [...]

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Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah released from jail after five years

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 [...]

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‘It’s become a farce, really’: Egyptian actors who criticized Sissi in Washington are kicked out of union

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 [...]

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Tighter Restrictions on Social Media Enacted in Egypt

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 [...]

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‘Pure Genocide’: Over 6,000 Nigerian Christians Slaughtered, Mostly Women and Children

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 [...]

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Christians face uncertain future as Syria enters possible last year of civil war

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 [...]

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Unreported: Jihadists slaughtered 120 Christians in Nigeria in past month

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 [...]

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Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh sentenced ‘for 38 years’ and 148 lashes in Iran

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 [...]

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US Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Egypt for 2018

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 [...]