News & Reports

By WorldWatch Monitor – A Pakistani court last week sentenced two Christian brothers to death for blasphemy. Since their arrest in 2014, Qaisar and Amoon Ayub had been held in District Jail [...]

By Australian Coptic Movement –  The Australian Coptic Community and supporters will protest against the ongoing persecution of Egypt’s Copts following the heinous murder of two Coptic [...]

By Hadeer El-Mahdawy – Mada Masr – Translated by Ian Louie How a Minya archdiocese’s 17-year long attempt to license a church was capped by violence Nineteen people were [...]

By Reuters – Hundreds of Coptic Christians on Thursday attended the burial of a father and his son who were killed by a police officer in Egypt’s Minya province, amid cries for the state to [...]

By Daniel Funke – Poynter – Three times more journalists were jailed this year on “false news” charges than in 2016 — and Egypt led the way. According to a new report published by the [...]

By WorldTribune –  U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 11 signed legislation to direct U.S. humanitarian assistance to persecuted religious minorities in Iraq and Syria who were targeted [...]

By Hamza Hendawi - AP – Shady Lewis Botros says his recently published novel — “Ways of the Lord” — can be broadly viewed as an attempt to answer one question: What it’s like to be a [...]

By Associated Press –  The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass [...]

By POMED –  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised to improve the situation of the country’s Christians, who by many estimates constitute about ten percent [...]

By World Watch Monitor – An Egyptian court has sentenced a Coptic Christian to three years in prison after he was found guilty of “insulting Islam in the first degree”. Abdo Adel, 43, [...]