Selected Opinion

By Peter Hessler – The New Yorker President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined. The Egyptian [...]

By World Tribune – Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) will be defeated in Iraq and Syria in 2017, but the driving force behind its bloody ideology, the establishment of a Salafi Sunni [...]

Peter Wehner – The New York Times –  Early in my Christian pilgrimage, as a young man struggling to understand the implications of a story I had only a surface knowledge of, I stumbled onto [...]

By Ewelina Ochab – Forbes (via IDC) – Around Christmas 2015, numerous voices within the international community raised their concerns that the persecution of Christians, Yazidis and other [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – Editorial – Radical Islam poses an existential threat for the region’s Christians. Britain’s Prince Charles devoted his annual Christmas message this week [...]

Al Monitor – “I want to tell you that we’ve been concerned with controlling the media from the very first day the army took over power in 2011,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is [...]

By Sam Fouad – UN Dispatch – A bombing in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, which lies adjacent to St. Mark’s Cathedral – the equivalent of the Vatican for the Coptic Orthodox [...]

By Shahira Amin – Contributor, Egypt Pulse –  On Dec. 12, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for tighter counterterrorism laws and expressed frustration with the country’s legal [...]

Mona Eltahawy – The New York Times – The Dec. 11 bombing of a church in the Cairo cathedral complex — the seat of the Coptic pope — has been claimed by the Islamic State, although the [...]

By  Carey Lodge – Christian Today – Coptic Christians who survived the deadly church bombing in Cairo on December 11 have said they forgive their attacker, and are ready to die [...]