Selected Opinion

By Phillip Kosloski – Aleteia – Writing in the 4th century, St. Cyril of Alexandria recognized the many struggles Christians faced on a daily basis and sought to find a remedy for [...]

By Philip Jenkins – Every so often the Vatican an­nounces the canonization of a new saint, an event that marks the culmination of a detailed investigation that might have lasted decades. [...]

By Marlo Safi – National Review – Last week, I attended the Coptic solidarity conference in Washington, D.C. The title of the two-day long conference was “Egypt’s Copts: Prospects of [...]

By Dr. Maged Atiya – It was an unexpected sight. During the African games in Cairo this week a stadium crowd displayed a banner, nearly 30 feet wide, in the red, white and black tricolors [...]

By Marlo Safi – National Review – While attacks on Christians in Egypt such as bombings of churches by Islamists break into our news cycles in the U.S., smaller attacks often go [...]

By Hal Meawad – Former Executive Committee Member of Coptic Solidarty; Current Advisory Board Member As a Copt, I’m in debt to President Sisi for ridding the Country of the Muslim [...]

By Samuel Tadros – There is a tendency to describe it as similar to previous attacks, as part of the pattern we have seen for years now. It isn’t. The story begins with a Christian [...]

By Marlo Safi – National Review – In the Middle East, Christians have been facing a wave of persecution that has decimated their populations in countries such as Syria, Iraq, and [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani –  Problems on hold Today I tackle yet another problem which deeply irks me and which I have vowed not to drop, this being the inequality between Egyptian [...]

By Emma Green – The Atlantic –  The call came in 2014, shortly after Easter. Four years earlier, Catrin Almako’s family had applied for special visas to the United States. Catrin’s [...]