Selected Opinion

By Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights – The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the pressure exerted by state authorities on the affected Copts in the village of [...]

By: David Kirkpatrick – Church Times UK – El-Sisi has failed to protect the Copts, despite their leaders’ support – “WE CAN pray in a nation without a church,” Pope Tawadros II, [...]

By Lindsay Griffin – Director of Development & Advocacy, Coptic Solidarity I get a lot of blank stares when asked what I do. For starters, many Americans have never heard of Copts. I’m [...]

سحر الجعارة – الوطن ـ حين تسيل دماء الأبرياء على الأرض، وتُنتهك الحرمات، وتُستحل الأموال والأعراض والأرواح.. لا تحدثنى عن «بيت العائلة»، ولا عن «المجلس القومى لمواجهة التطرف والإرهاب».. لا [...]

By Elissa Miller – Atlantic Council –  Internet censorship around the world, including in the Middle East, is not a new phenomenon. Freedom of expression facilitated by the internet [...]

Below you can read the presentation given by Ms. Raheel Raza  during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2018. Good afternoon and thanks to the [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – When the long-awaited Law for the Building and Restoration of Churches went into effect on 28 September 2016, it stipulated that non-licensed churches [...]

Below you can watch the panel discussion titled Forms of Minority Persecution and Marginalization, hosted during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on June 22, [...]

Below you can watch the panel discussion titled Our Responsibility Towards our Family in Egypt: Engaging Young Copts in the Diaspora, hosted during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference [...]

By Amy Austin Holmes – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy As the next deadline for FMF disbursement approaches, the administration should remember that U.S. law requires it to [...]