Selected Opinion

By Ola Salem – Foreign Policy – The government tried to bury evidence of a national outbreak—until Egyptians forced it to confess. Egypt originally seemed to have evaded a severe [...]

by Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – For the intersectional activists, the US is the world’s biggest oppressor — not China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or Iran. [...]

By Johnnie Moore and Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir – Newsweek – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated his desire to convert Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque in late May, a [...]

By Hesham Shehab and Benjamin Baird – MEF – Islamists are exploiting the Black Lives Matter movement to bring attention to their anti-Israel agenda. Yet, many of these same [...]

By Kevin Clarke – AmericanMagazine – Are Nigeria’s Christians the target of a genocide? That is the conclusion of a number of religious freedom analysts and Nigerian clergy who joined [...]

by Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – In Turkish jargon, the difference is simple: It is “conquest” when we do it and “invasion” when others do it. In [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On May 30, 2020 — two days before President Trump congratulated Copts around the world — Egyptian authorities demolished the village of Koum [...]

By Nina Shea – WSJ – A new executive order puts the neglected issue at the heart of U.S. foreign policy. For decades religious freedom has been treated as the unwanted stepchild in [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Islamic terror attacks that target Christians in Turkey are not uncommon.  Around Christmas of 2011, a large-scale al-Qaeda plot [...]

By Neil Hicks, Senior Director for Advocacy – Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – Editors Note: The response below was submitted to Coptic Solidarity as a [...]