Selected Opinion

By Egyptian Initiatie for Personal Rights – EIPR condemns closure of the Naga al-Ghafir church in Sohag by security and documents closure of 22 churches since enactment of the church [...]

By Carl Anderson – Wall Street Journal – Iran-backed militias are keeping minority groups from returning home post-ISIS. Before visiting Iraq last month, I met with Pope Francis. He [...]

By Lord David Alton – Address by David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) at the Danube Institute Conference on Religious Freedom, April 9th 2019, The Reform Club, London. In 1896, at the age [...]

By Stephen McInerney and Amy Hawthorne – POMED –  Sisi’s supporters praise his religious tolerance. They shouldn’t. Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of one of [...]

By Uzay Bulut– Gatestone Institute – “When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, virtually all of the city’s surviving cathedrals and churches were — [...]

By Yasmine El Rashidi – New York Times – The story of one activist is the story of Egypt: What went wrong after the 2011 revolution? We woke to the news last Friday: The 37-year-old [...]

By Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institute – The only comment that keeps being repeated is the right of the ISIS terrorists to return to the West because they happen to be in possession [...]

By Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institute – Qatari Islamic education [is] perhaps even more radical than the most concerned Western critics were assuming. — Based on the “Review [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim –  Gatestone Institute – If convicted, Stephen Masih could face the death penalty. “[I]nstead of protecting the teenager from his attackers, [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – On 10 March, Egypt’s Prime Minister issued decision number 10 for Year 2019, legalising the status of 165 unlicensed churches and church-affiliated [...]