Selected Opinion

By Paul Sedra – The state-run funeral for the victims of the Butrusiyya Church massacre was a carefully organized, managed and controlled affair. Mourners without officially printed [...]

By Ishaq Ibrahim – Mada Masr – It’s delusional to believe announcing the names of the perpetrators of the St. Peter and St. Paul Church attack, or their sentencing, will prevent a repeat of [...]

By Michael Wahid Hanna – The December 11th bombing of the St. Paul and St. Peter Church in Cairo, which abuts the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church, St. Mark’s Cathedral, resulted in 25 [...]

By Erasmus – The Economist – NO GROUP immediately claimed responsibility for a bomb that ripped through a chapel in Egypt’s capital on December 11th, killing 25 worshippers and [...]

By Samuel Tadros – Sunday’s attack is neither the first nor the last that the Coptic Church will endure in Egypt. St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, the site of this past Sunday’s bombing [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special to Coptic Solidarity – For an idea of why Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches are constantly under attack—most recently last Sunday, when a [...]

By Mokhtar Awad – The Atlantic Council – On December 11 at approximately 10 AM, Cairo time, a bomb ripped through the St. Paul and St. Peter Church in the Cairo district of Abassiya, [...]

By Human Rights Watch – Authorities Should Better Protect Christian Community- The horrific bombing that killed worshippers at Cairo’s main Coptic Orthodox cathedral compound on December [...]

By Declan Walsh – New York Times – President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday made dramatic efforts to reassure Egypt’s Coptic Christians — a pillar of his government’s support — as [...]

By Dr. Jim Denison – Denison Forum “There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes.” This is how a witness described [...]