News & Reports

By Watani – The police has caught an unspecified number of Copts and Muslims in the village of Koum al-Raheb in Samalout, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, and tightened security over the [...]

TIMEP Brief – Reporters Without Borders ranked Egypt 161st out of 180 countries for press freedom in 2017, citing campaigns by security forces to marginalize dissenting media opinions and [...]

By – Mada Masr –  Security measures on the road leading to the St. Samuel Monastery in Minya where seven Coptic Christians were killed in a militant attack in early November were once [...]

By Ashraf Hakim and Asmahan Soliman – Mada Masr –  Plans to amend Egypt’s Constitution — including those that would extend President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s term in office — are [...]

By Egyptian Streets –  A committee headed by Prime Minister and Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved the legalization of 168 churches and buildings on Friday. The committee officially [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani – Coptic Mass was held in the Saudi Arabian capital al-Riyadh on Saturday 1 December 2018. Anba Markos, Metropolitan of Shubra-Kheima, Cairo, said Mass which [...]

By James Tapsfield, Political Editor, The Mail (UK) – Archbishop of Canterbury has highlighted the plight of Christians in Middle East Justin Welby said followers of the faith are subect to [...]

By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer – The Hill – President Trump will soon have a chance to make up for some lost time in supporting Iraqi religious minorities that ISIS threatened with [...]

By MEMRI –  Pakistani PM Imran Khan Says ‘No Mention Of Jesus In History,’ Announces Int’l Anti-Blasphemy Convention: The West Should Be Made To Understand Our Love For [...]

By Hamza Hendawi – AP –  Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the [...]