Selected Opinion

By Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate – The Turkish government consistently shows contempt for the Christian history and heritage of Asia Minor, and particular disrespect for the rights [...]

By Mary Spencer – The National Review – Philip Glass’s otherworldly opera portrays the religious devotion of a pharaoh. The final opera in Philip Glass’s “portrait” trilogy, Akhnaten, [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Preliminary reports from Egyptian authorities said that all three fires appeared to be accidents related to electrical or circuit [...]

By Timothy E. Kaldas – TIMEP A “man-made miracle” is how Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of one of Egypt’s last remaining independent press outlets, Mada Masr, described her release to me [...]

By Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – “Everyone is equal before the law regardless of his language, race, sex, color, political opinion, philosophy, religious belief, [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – On November 15, 2019, two of the foremost representatives of Christianity and Islam, Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Al Azhar—the [...]

By Michael Igoe – Devex WASHINGTON — In mid-September 2018, a Hungarian official named Tristan Azbej traveled to Washington, D.C. for a series of meetings and events he hoped would draw the [...]

By Dioscorus Boles – JOURNAL OF COPTIC CULTURE & POLITICS – Following the arrest of Ramy Kamil, the Coptic human rights activist on 23rd November 2019 by Egypt’s notorious [...]

By Sam Selsky, Senior Program Associate – Freedom House The current legal system punishes independent advocacy and perpetuates chronic abuses. In October 2011, thousands of Coptic [...]

By Peter Henne – Religion News Service As the Iowa caucuses approach, the Democratic presidential field continues to churn. Candidates try to clarify their stances on a variety of issues, [...]