By The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board – The killers may have taken their bloody cues from the attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday in 2017. The Easter Sunday slaughter [...]
By Vivian Yee – The New York Times — The message blared from social media videos, from banners too big to miss, and from the upbeat Election Day songs playing so boisterously on jumbo speakers [...]
By WSJ — A series of blasts tore through churches and international hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter morning, killing at least 207 people and wounding more than 450 in a coordinated series of [...]
by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The current violence, which has been getting worse since early 2017, “is slightly different, in that it is a series of targeted attacks on [...]
By ICC – This is a consequence of the fact that the Egyptian government is very slow to approve applications for the construction of new churches. All too often, Christians who go ahead [...]
د. جابر عصفورـ الأهرام ـ المؤكد أن أهم نتيجة سياسية لثورة 1919 كانت هى دستور 1923 بكل ما تضمَّنه من إيجابيات عظيمة وما احتواه من سلبيات قليلة. وقد كان هذا الدستور الذى صدر بقرارٍ ملكى من السلطان [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity strongly condemns the closure of the Anba Karas building by the police in Sohag, Egypt on April 13, after Muslim mobs repeatedly protested in front [...]
EIPR condemns closure of the Naga al-Ghafir church in Sohag by security and documents closure of 22 churches since enactment of the church construction law; demands reopening of closed churches [...]
المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية – تدين قيام أجهزة الأمن بغلق كنيسة نجع الغفير بسوهاج وترصد غلق 22 كنيسة منذ تطبيق قانون بناء الكنائس… وتطالب بإعادة فتح الكنائس المغلقة وصدور قرار واحد [...]
أليتيا – مسلسل متكرر لا يختلف من سوى في المكان والزمان ، انتفاضة المتشددين ضد حق الأقباط في الصلاة ، أصبح ظاهرة تقوده مشاعر الكراهية والتطرف ، ظنا منهم ان القانون غائب غن محاسبتهم مثل [...]
By Watani – A building which doubles as a small church and community centre for the Coptic villagers of Naja Khalafallah Jaber in Sohag, some 500km south of Cairo, was closed by the police [...]
وطني ـ مسلسل متكرر، لا يختلف سوى في المكان والزمان: «إنتفاضة» المتشددين ضد حق الأقباط في الصلاة أصبح ظاهرة تقودها مشاعر الكراهية والتطرف، ظنا منهم أن القانون غائب عن محاسبتهم مثل الكثير من [...]
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 Amr Eltohamy – Al-Monitor – Egypt’s Al-Azhar has had a significant presence abroad in recent years, especially in its efforts to counter the effects of the Islamic [...]
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 [...]
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 Office of US Congressman French Hill – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: April 9, 2019 Rep. Hill Calls on President Trump to Defend Coptic Christians in Meeting with Egyptian President el-Sisi [...]
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 — after [...]
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 USCIRF – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned recent comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatening to convert the [...]
By Reuters – An Egyptian policeman found guilty of killing a Christian man and his son in a case that outraged the minority Coptic community was sentenced to death on Tuesday, judicial [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – On Sunday, March 17, the ruling court in Minya, Egypt, recused itself and stepped down from two ongoing cases concerning the [...]
د. عماد جاد نشهد عشرات الوقائع في المدارس الحكومية التي تمثل انتهاكا للقيم الإنسانسة، قيم المواطنة والمساواة، بل تجاوزا في حق الدولة الوطنية عبر رفض تحية العلم باعتياره في عرف الجماعة وفكرها، صنم [...]
By BBC- A prominent Egyptian activist has been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for organising an illegal protest, his family says. Alaa Abdel Fattah rose to prominence [...]
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 Emily Tamkin – Wshington Post – On Monday, actors Amr Waked and Khaled Abol Naga spoke out against Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi at a Capitol Hill event in [...]
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 Magdi Khalil – Special for Coptic Solidarity As an institution, al-Azhar is considered one of the most important and largest Sunni institutions in all Islamic countries. It is an old [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – If convicted, Stephen Masih could face the death penalty. “[I]nstead of protecting the teenager from his attackers, [police] arrested [...]
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 [...]
By Tarek Heggy – The tree of terrorism is like any other tree. It is comprised of roots, a trunk and branches. The roots are Salafism, represented in the writings of the Hanbali scholars [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2019) – Book review of: Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North, By William R. Polk, [...]
By POMED – On March 19, the Egyptian government put into effect new media regulations that allow the Supreme Media Regulatory Council without obtaining a court order to block and fine [...]
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post – Church leaders in Nigeria have said that Christians are experiencing “pure genocide” as 6,000 people, mostly women and children, have been [...]
By World Watch Monitor – As the Syrian civil war enters what might be its last year, Christians are trying to rebuild in the face of an uncertain future. The conflict, which grew out of [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2018) – Review of “Shariah Law: What Everyone Needs to Know”. By John L. Esposito and Natana J. Delong-Bas. Oxford: [...]
By WorldTribune – In the wake of the horrific shootings at two New Zealand mosques, Christian media outlets and a UN-recognized human rights group have pointed to the lack of interest from [...]
نادر شكري ـ وطني ـ إيهاب رمزي: لم تحدد المحكمة اسباب التنحى عن قضية سيدة الكرم وحرق منازل دلجا وهو أمر مثير. قضية مقتل قبطي دلجا اسكندر طوس وحرق منازل دلجا تدخل فى السنه السادسة دون حسم. تنحت [...]
By: The Guardian – Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, has been handed a new sentence that her husband said was 38 years in prison and 148 [...]
By Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor – State Department – Executive Summary According to its constitution, Egypt is a republic governed by an elected president and [...]
By FoRB in full – A Blog by Christian Solidarity Worldwide – In November 2018, seven Coptic Christians were killed and 18 injured when terrorists attacked the bus they were [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for CS – An Arabic-language video recently appeared of a Muslim cleric in Egypt addressing how terrorists misuse Islamic scriptures to justifying killing [...]
د. مراد وهبه ـ الأهرام ـ هل النخبة القبطية إخوانية؟ . سؤال يبدو مثيرا للسخرية، إذ كيف يمكن أن يكون ذلك كذلك؟ أى كيف يمكن أن يكون قبطيا إخوانيا؟ السؤال ورد إلى ذهنى بعد أن قرأت كتابا عنوانه [...]
د. وحيد عبدالمجيد ـ الأهرام ـ ألهمت ثورة 1919 الزعيم الهندى المهاتما غاندى، وأسهمت فى تعزيز اقتناعه بأهمية توحيد الهندوس والمسلمين فى مواجهة الاحتلال. كانت الحركة الوطنية الهندية فى بدايتها عندما [...]
By Ramy Aziz -Middle East Quarterly (Spring 2019) – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in July 2013 through a military coup, supported by many sectors of Egyptian society that wanted to rid [...]
الأهرام الكندي ـ ما سنسرده لكم ليس فيلماً أو مسلسلاً درامياً أنما واقع مؤلم عاشته أسر مسيحية بقرية المشابك وكوم السيد بمدينة نجع حمادى بمحافظة قنا بصعيد مصر ، والسبب قصة جمعت بين فتاة مسيحية قاصر [...]
هويدا طه ـ في نقاشات كثيرة خضتها مع عدد من الأصدقاء، كان محور النقاش هو: علمنة مصر أولاً أم دمقرطة مصر أولاً؟ اختلفنا في الأولوية، واختلفنا كذلك في تعريفات المفاهيم. ـ وجهة نظرهم: [...]
The following document, an email from Hillary R. Clinton (forwarding an email she’d received) , dating back to Nov. 2011, describes some interesting behind-the-scene interactions between [...]
نادر شكري ـ أقباط متحدون ـ في الوقت الذي تواصل فيه لجنة تقنين الكنائس التابعة لمجلس الوزراء عملها في تقنين الكنائس والمبان التابعة لها ، طبقا لقانون بناء الكنائس ، والإعلان اليوم عن تقنين 156 [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Salemo is literal for “Live peaceably” or “Be at peace”. The command was given by Jesus Christ Himself, as cited in the Gospel of St Mark 9: 50 “Be at [...]
وطني ـ فوجئ أهالي عزبة على باشا التابعة لقرية شوشة مركز سمالوط ، بالمنيا، بتزايد قوات الأمن داخل القرية، وانتشاره على مداخل ومخارج القرية، رغم تواجده منذ ظهور أزمة احتفال القرية بأنباء عودة فتاة [...]
By Christopher Gurguis – Opinion article contributed by Coptic Solidarity supporter. We should congratulate Rami Malek on winning the first Oscar for the Copts. Whether he is aware of it [...]
د. خالد منتصر ـ كتبت هذا المقال منذ أكثر من سنة وإستجابت الوزارة وحذفت بعض الكلمات لكن مازالت القصة مقررة !!، نفس أسلوب حذف العبارات من كتب الأزهر إستجابة للإحتجاجات وراحة للدماغ وليس إقتناعاً [...]
وطني ـ قصة مؤلمة تكشف مدى الظلم والمعاناة التي عاشها الأقباط منذ سنوات طويلة، والأحكام الجائرة التي صدرت في عهد الحكم البائد في زمن الرئيس مبارك، عندما حكم بالسجن المؤبد بالإشغال الشاقة على 6 [...]
By Michael Wahid Hanna – Financial Times – The vote on a plan to extend the Sisi presidency is an opportunity to voice dissent. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stated unequivocally in 2017 that “it [...]
برنامج عرضته قناة «بي بي سي عربي» هذا الأسبوع، يُبين تاريخ المسيحيين من الاشوريين والكلدان والسريان منذ بدايات القرن العشرين ولغاية يومنا هذا مصوراً بالوثائق اعتداءات الأكراد والدواعش المسلمين [...]
مسيحيو دوت كوم ـ واصل عميد مجمع الكنائس الشرقية بالفاتيكان جولته الرعوية في الأبرشيات الواقعة بصعيد مصر، حيث قام يوم الخميس الموافق 28 فبراير، بزيارة كنيسة مار جرجس للأقباط الكاثوليك في قرية [...]
By NPR – Morning Edition In the Egyptian province with the biggest percentage of Christians, the government has refused to grant permits for churches. Tens of thousands of people [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity congratulates actor Rami Malek on winning the coveted Best Actor award at the 91st Academy Awards for his performance in the film Bohemian Rhapsody. [...]
By Watani – Seven Coptic families from the village of Ali Basha in Shousha, Samalout, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, have fled their village in fear of violence that may erupt against [...]
أسمهان سليمان – مدى مصر ـ بوساطة مشتركة قام بها وزير خارجية الإمارات، عبد الله بن زايد، والرئيس المؤقت سابقًا والرئيس السابق للمحكمة الدستورية، عدلي منصور، تم التوافق على خطوات متوازية بين [...]
By Yasmine El Rashidi – The New York Times – Parliament wants to extend the president’s term. The people may not agree. CAIRO — It’s been eight years since we took to the streets in [...]
وطني ـ قررت محكمة جنح مستأنف الزقازيق تأييد إخلاء سبيل كلِ من “مصطفى حسيني فخري الخطيب، علي جودة محمد عطية الخطيب، حسين محمد عبده حسين، السيد مصطفى سعيد سلامة”، بكفالة ٥ آلاف لكلٍ منهم. وذلك في [...]
By Michael Peel – Financial Times – For the EU, the timing could hardly have been worse. Egypt’s parliament this month backed a proposal to extend President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s [...]
By Arab News – Arab fans of Rami Malek, who scooped the Best Actor award at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday night, lauded the American-Egyptian actor, describing him as the pride of [...]
وطني ـ اضطرت سبع أسر قبطية بقرية “على باشا” التابعة لقرية شوشة بمركز سمالوط بالمنيا، لمغادرة منازلهم مؤقتا اليوم خوفا من توترات طائفية فى ظل الإعلان عن قرب وصول فتاة قبطية أشهرت إسلامها للقرية [...]
By Declan Walsh – The New York Times – President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, whose government has jailed critics, muzzled the independent press and executed nine prisoners in the past [...]
By Majid Rafizadeh – Gatestone Institiute – “We created a people’s army to defend the country and also help in emergencies, but it turned into a monster.” — [...]
By Barnabas Fund – Christians in Egypt were forced to hold a third funeral on the streets of Koum al-Raheb village in the first week of February because their only church building was [...]
By Faith McDonnell – The Stream EDITORIAL UPDATE: After much publicity and advocacy, Faith McDonnell’s Facebook account was reinstated on February 20, 2019. A Christian human rights [...]
By Mark Woods – Christian Today – Exactly four years ago, on a beach in Libya on February 15, 2015, 21 orange-clad men were beheaded by fighters of Islamic State. The actual moment of death [...]
By Candace Lukasik – TIMEP – On December 12, 2018, Emad Kamal Sadek, 49, and his son David Emad, 21, were shot and killed by Rabea Mustafa Khalefa, an Egyptian police officer and [...]
By Declan Walsh – The New York Times – The Egyptian Parliament approved sweeping measures on Thursday that would allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to extend his rule until 2034, further [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – This week in 2015, 21 men were brutally beheaded on a Mediterranean beach in Libya, by members of ISIS. They had been captured by ISIS a few months earlier and [...]
By CBNNEWS – Christian mother Asia Bibi is reportedly being kept from leaving Pakistan, despite a final Supreme Court decision that rejected a final bid from hardline Islamists to have her [...]
مدى مصر ـ بدأ مجلس النواب اليوم، اﻷربعاء، جلساته العامة لمناقشة التعديلات الدستورية المقدمة من 155 نائبًا، والتي أقرتها اللجنة العامة من حيث المبدأ يوم اﻷحد، 3 فبراير. وأعلن رئيس المجلس، علي عبد [...]
نادر شكري ـ وطني ـ ناشد أقباط قرية “اسطنها” مركز الباجور بالمنوفية، الجهات الرسمية، بفتح كنيستهم منذ 12 عامًا، وتم حرمانهم من حقهم في ممارسة الشعائر الدينية منذ غلق المبنى الكنسي باسم “كنيسة [...]
By Christopher White – The Tablet – Four years ago this week, 21 men were videotaped on a beach in Libya as their ISIS captors beheaded them one by one. Of the 21 victims, 20 were [...]
By Nader Shukry – Watani – Minya Criminal Court last week handed a death sentence to the policeman Rabie Mustafa Khalifa for shooting to death two Copts in the city of Minya some [...]
By Al-Monitor – Egypt cut ties with its top US lobbying firm just days after CBS broadcast a controversial interview with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that Cairo tried to stop from [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – The “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” is being portrayed as a “historic pledge of [...]
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By Nina Shea – National Review – On Sunday, February 3, history was made when Pope Francis landed in the United Arab Emirates, marking the first time any pope has been permitted to set foot [...]
By Francis Phillips – Catholic Herald – Martin Mosebach opens up a world unknown to the West – a Church that has been a persecuted minority for over 1,000 years. I have recently [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – PJ Media – Vatican News recently announced Pope Francis’ upcoming “Apostolic Journey to Morocco, whose theme is hope.” Before spending March [...]
وطني ـ للمرة الثالثة يواصل اقباط قرية كوم الراهب بمركز سمالوط بالمنيا ، الصلاة على موتاهم بشوارع القرية بعد غلق مبنى كنيستهم بالقرية فى شهر ديسمبر الماضى ,وصلى اليوم اقباط القرية على احد المتوفين [...]
By The Wall Street Journal – Egyptian president’s backers propose constitutional amendment allowing him to stay in office longer. Egyptian lawmakers launched an effort Sunday to change the [...]
By Jason Horowitz – The New York Times – Pope Francis used the keynote address of his roughly 40-hour stay in the United Arab Emirates to breach delicate taboos on Monday, specifically [...]
By Reuters – Constitutional amendments proposed by Egyptian lawmakers would allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power for up to 12 years beyond his current term and boost his [...]
By Morning Star News – A Christian mother from Sudan had deep cause for fear last November when her Muslim brother went to her church in Cairo, Egypt with a photo of her husband and asked [...]
Par Renaud Girard – Le Figaro – “Les coptes d’Égypte sont une composante essentielle de la société égyptienne, de son histoire et de son avenir. La France est attachée à son [...]
By Timothy E. Kaldas – TIMEP – In late December, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi announced the formation of a committee to combat sectarianism in Egypt. On its face, Sisi’s [...]
Par Ariane Lavrilleux – Le Point – ANALYSE. La conférence de presse des présidents égyptien et français s’est crispée après les remarques d’Emmanuel Macron sur les droits de [...]
By POMED – Upon arriving in Egypt on January 27, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would address human rights concerns by speaking “openly” about the treatment of citizens [...]
القاهرة (رويترز) – قال الرئيس الفرنسي إيمانويل ماكرون يوم الأحد إن حقوق الإنسان في مصر ينظر إليها بشكل متزايد على أنها في وضع أسوأ مما كانت عليه في عهد الرئيس السابق حسني مبارك، الذي أطاحت [...]
By EgyptianStreets – On the first day of his trip to Egypt, French President Emmanuel Macron says that the human rights situation is perceived as tougher than under Mubarak, and that it [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Watani’s issue of 20 January 2019 could have very well held the headline “Special issue on the attack against Copts and closure of their church in the [...]
مدى مصر ـ أعلن تنظيم «الدولة الإسلامية» المعروف بـ «داعش» أمس، الجمعة، تبنيه لحادث اختطاف مواطن قبطي في محافظة شمال سيناء من كمين أقامه فرع التنظيم المعروف بـ «ولاية سيناء» أمام قرية «مزار» [...]
By POMED – On January 23, amid the ongoing debate over the government shutdown, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill for Fiscal Year 2019 that would maintain the [...]
By Robert Spencer – JW- Imagine if Christians anywhere destroyed 1,125 mosques. The outcry would be immediate, sustained, impassioned — and justified. There would governmental studies and [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Dear Friends, We need your help us make true progress for our Coptic brothers and sisters in Egypt. Rep. French Hill (R – AR) is a true champion for Copts, and has [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – PR Web Rep. French Hill (R – AR) introduced a resolution, H.Res.49, expressing support for Coptic Christians and religious liberty in Egypt with co-lead Rep. David [...]
Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia – As this article demonstrates, Muslim religious establishments and institutions are and have been subservient to Muslim ruling [...]
U.S. Congressman French Hill – Watch Rep. Hill’s remarks from the House floor in support of religious freedom for Coptic Christians in Egypt. WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, on Religious [...]
By Coptic Orthodox Archbishopric Diocese of Minya & Abo-Qorqas – Translation by Coptic Solidarity We remained silent since the infringements that took place midday today; Friday, [...]
نبيل عمر ـ الأهرام ـ لن تكون أحداث قرية منشية الزعفرانة بالمنيا هى الأخيرة فى مسلسل طويل سخيف، عن شياط أعصاب المتشددين والمتعصبين والسلفيين، كلما رأوا مصريين مسيحيين يصلون فى بيت أو يتخذون مكانا [...]
By ArabTimes – Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Lt-Gen Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah said that “those who want to obtain Kuwaiti citizenship must be a Muslim”, reports Al-Rai [...]
كريمه كمال ـ المصري اليوم ـ فى قرية الزعفرانة بالمنيا تمتلك المطرانية مكانًا صغيرًا تقيم فيه الصلوات، منذ مدة، فالقرية يقيم بها حوالى ألف قبطى. وفى يوم السابع من يناير، وبعد قداس العيد بساعات، [...]
By Watani – The Copt Adeeb Nakhla Yassa, 55, was abducted on 18 January while on a microbus heading to the North Sinai city of al-Arish. Mr Yassa, who is unmarried, was originally a [...]
By by Sam Westrop – The Spectator – When a prominent Muslim Brotherhood bewails scarcity of free expression in today’s Egypt – The Washington Post insists on presenting [...]
موقع الحرة/ كريم مجدي – جاءت 17 دولة عربية ضمن الدول الأكثر قمعا للمسيحيين على مستوى العالم خلال عام 2018، بحسب تقرير أصدرته منظمة “الأبواب المفتوحة” المتخصصة في رصد القمع الذي [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim –Special for Coptic Solidarity – On January 10, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the newly built Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ located some 30 miles east [...]
By POMED – Mada Masr reported on January 16 that security forces closed the Mar Girghis Church in the Minya governorate village of Manshiyet Zaafarena after Muslim residents surrounded the [...]
By Mada Masr – Security forces closed a Coptic Christian place of worship in the village of Manshiyet Zaafarana on Friday after an angry mob of Muslim residents surrounded the building and [...]
By Watani – Last week was a painful one for Copts, more so because it came on the footsteps of Christmas joy—Copts celebrate Christmas on 7 January. And this year’s Christmas was a very [...]
وطني ـ أصدر مجمع كهنة إيبارشية المنيا وابوقرقاص، بيانً شديد اللهجة لتأييد الأنبا مكاريوس، أسقف عام المنيا، جاء فيه: “في الوقت الذي تسعي فيه الدولة لإزالة الفوارق بين أبنائها؛ وذلك لتأكيد المساواة [...]
By ICC – President al-Sisi Opens Cathedral in the Desert, but Closes Churches in Populous Upper Egypt. International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that four churches in different [...]
By Morning Star News – Police in Upper Egypt evicted Coptic priests and shuttered their church building after an Islamist mob converged on the site over the weekend, according to reports. [...]
By PRNewsWeb – For Immediate Release – WASHINGTON – JANUARY 15, 2019 – Coptic Solidarity welcomes the opening of a new cathedral in Egypt’s administrative Capital. Yet, a [...]
وطني ـ أعرب كهنة سمالوط بمحافظة المنيا عن استيائهم لاستمرار غلق عدد من الكنائس التابعة لايبارشية سمالوط، رغم تلقى العديد من الوعود بإعادة فتحها. وأكدوا شروعهم في تنظيم وقفه قريباً بالقاهرة [...]
القاهرة ـ «القدس العربي»ـ لم تمر أيام على افتتاح الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي أكبر مسجد وكاتدرائية في مصر بعد الانتهاء من بنائهما في العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة، في مشهد تضمن كلمات أطلقها شيخ [...]
By Watani – In the wake of an attack by the Muslim villagers of Manshiyet Zaafarana in Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, against the village Copts, the police closed down the only church in [...]
مدى مصر ـ أغلقت قوات الأمن أول أمس، الجمعة، كنيسة «مارجرجس» في منشية زعفرانة بمحافظة المنيا بعد محاصرة متشددين للكنيسة والتظاهر ضد وجودها بالقرية، بحسب بيان أصدرته مطرانية المنيا وأبو قرقاص، قبل [...]
سحر الجعاره ـ لم يعد فى القلب مكانا لطعنة أخرى، لقد نزفنا وأحترقنا عشرات المرات، وفرض علينا ثوب الحداد مئات المرات، وصلينا للسلام والمحبة ربما تزول عنا لعنة التطرف والإرهاب .. دخلنا المحاكم [...]
د. فؤاد عبد المنعم رياض ـ أصدر الرئيس عبدالفتاح السيسى قرارا بتشكيل لجنة عليا لوضع استراتيجية لمواجهة الأحداث الطائفية وآليات التعامل مع الأحداث الطائفية حال وقوعها, القرار رقم 602 لسنة 2018 . [...]
By Jared Malsin and Courtney McBride – Wall Street Journal – Speaking in Cairo, secretary of state casts the Islamic Republic as the Trump administration’s top concern in the region while [...]
By MEMRI – During a January 7, 2017 address at the Al-Khulafa Al-Rashideen Mosque in Sixth of October City near Cairo, Egyptian cleric Samir Hashish referred to a hadith in Sahih [...]
By Julia A. Seymour – World – Ahead of the Egyptian Coptic Christians’ Christmas celebration on Monday, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the formation of a committee to [...]
By MEMRI – Introduction Since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) government of President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in 2013, several TV channels affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim [...]
By Patrick Cockburn – The Independent – Turkey is recruiting and retraining Isis fighters to lead its invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, according to an [...]
المستشار نبيل صليب عوض الله ـ المصري السوم ـ سبق أن نُشِرَ لنا بجريدتنا المفضلة والمتميزة – «المصرى اليوم»- مقالات عدة نقداً للقانون سمى خطأ بقانون بناء الكنائس، وهو فى حقيقته ومبتغاه قانون [...]
By Al-Monitor – House Democrats sharply rebuked Egypt over its human rights record on Thursday, putting Cairo on a path to lose $300 million in military assistance this year. As part of a [...]
By Egypt Independent – Egypt’s president will inaugurate the country’s biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve Sunday, a day after a deadly bomb blast near a church in a country where [...]
المصري اليوم ـ أكد مصدر أمني، انفجار عبوة ناسفة في كنيسة العذراء وأبو سفين بعزبة الهجانة بمدينة نصر، وقال المصدر الأمني إن الانفجار أسفر عن استشهاد الرائد مصطفى عبيد وإصابة آخر، أثناء فحص شنطة [...]
By The Economist – The largest Christian community in the Arab world faces bombs, bullets and neglect. Sometimes, the simplest of gestures carries weight. In 2015 Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi became the [...]
By Mariam Farouq – Watani – On 29 December 2018, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ratified a decision to form a supreme committee to confront sectarian incidents, headed by the [...]
By Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm The main committee for the legalization of churches in Egypt approved on Monday the legalization of 80 churches and affiliate [...]
د. خالد منتصر ـ فى نهاية 2018، تم إعدام «عسلية» قاتل «يوسف لمعى»، لكن السؤال هل تم إعدام الفكر الذى أفرز وشكل عجينة «عسلية» الذهنية والعقلية؟ «عسلية» البائع المتجول ذبح «لمعى» صاحب المحمصة بسكين. [...]
وطني ـ تقدمت النائبة نادية هنرى عضو مجلس النواب ببلاغ الى النائب العام ضد القيادى السلفى الشيخ ياسر برهامى ، لتحميل برهامي مسئولية أخذ المتشددين بفتواه وإهدار دم المسيحيين ، وازاء الفتاوى [...]
By Jason Beaubien – NPR – Disturbing report puts Egypt high on a list of countries where risk of genocide (killing more than 1000 people) is significant. An early warning to political [...]
المصري اليوم ـ نشرت الجريدة الرسمية قرار الرئيس عبدالفتاح السيسي، رقم «٦٠٢» لسنة ٢٠١٨، بتشكيل اللجنة العليا لمواجهة الأحداث الطائفية، برئاسة مستشار رئيس الجمهورية لشؤون الأمن ومكافحة الإرهاب، [...]
By The New York Times – A bus full of Vietnamese tourists was rocked by a roadside bomb near the famed Giza Pyramids on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding 10 more, officials [...]
د. شريف يونس ـ اكتسب مسار “الصحوة” ككل، وحتى بعيدا عن منظماتها، طابعا عدوانيا شعبويا، محوره هو امتلاك أو اغتصاب المجال العام. كانت خطب المحلاوي في الإسكندرية وكشك في القاهرة وغيرهما [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Dear Supporters, Last week I wrote to you, sharing Coptic Solidarity’s key accomplishments in 2018. I am so grateful for the donations of our friends and supporters [...]
By International Christian Concern (ICC) – On December 22, 2018, an appeals court in Upper Egypt upheld a three-year prison sentence against Coptic Christian Abd Adel Bebawy. This [...]
وطني ـ قررت جنح مستأنف مطاى تأييد الحكم أول درجة بالحبس 3 سنوات للشاب القبطي عبده عادل عياد 40 عاما من قرية منبال بمركز مطاى المنيا بتهمة ازدراء الدين الإسلامي بعد نشره بوست أعتبر مسيء للإسلام ، [...]
د. خالد منتصر ـ الرئيس الراحل أنور السادات الذى نحتفل الآن بمئويته، صاحب حياة دراماتيكية، فيها كل منحنيات الدراما من صعود وهبوط، تراجيديا وكوميديا، انتصارات وهزائم، معاناة ورفاهية، الدراما دخلت [...]
By Jeffrey Cimmino – Washington Free Beacon – Egypt’s Christians continue to struggle to get government approval for church building and repair projects despite the reforms [...]
The IRF Roundtable is an informal group of individuals from non-governmental organizations who gather regularly to discuss IRF issues on a non-attribution basis. It is simply a safe space where [...]
By MEMRI – As Christmas and the New Year approach, Islamic State (ISIS) supporters have begun to produce posters threatening terror attacks against Christians and inhabitants of Western [...]
By Samuel Tadros – Hoover Institution – Writing in his famous book, What Went Wrong, the Middle East’s eminent historian, Bernard Lewis remarked that “according to Islamic law and [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – A Pakistani court last week sentenced two Christian brothers to death for blasphemy. Since their arrest in 2014, Qaisar and Amoon Ayub had been held in District Jail [...]
By Australian Coptic Movement – The Australian Coptic Community and supporters will protest against the ongoing persecution of Egypt’s Copts following the heinous murder of two Coptic [...]
By Hadeer El-Mahdawy – Mada Masr – Translated by Ian Louie How a Minya archdiocese’s 17-year long attempt to license a church was capped by violence Nineteen people were [...]
By Rep. French Hill – Washington Examiner – In 2017, I took up the mantle in support of Egypt’s Coptic Christian population. In America, we are blessed to freely worship and live [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – (Washington, DC) December 18, 2018 For Immediate Release Coptic Solidarity, The Coptic Canadian Association, the Middle East Freedom Forum, and all free Copts in the [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Christian Newswire (Washington, DC) December 17, 2018 For Immediate Release Coptic Solidarity urgently calls on the US Department of State and legislators to [...]
منظمة التضامن القبطى والهيئة القبطية الكندية ومنتدى الشرق الأوسط للحريات وجميع الأحرار الأقباط فى أمريكا تدعوكم لمسيرة سلمية أمام البيت الأبيض والسفارة المصرية فى واشنطن الجمعة ٢١ ديسمبر من [...]
عماد جاد ـ المصري اليوم ـ تمثل مشاهد قتل مواطنين مصريين قبطيين (الأب وابنه) على يد فرد الشرطة المكلف بحراسة إحدى الكنائس بمحافظة المنيا- اختصارا لواقع أليم وجريمة بشعة تؤكد أننا نمر بمرحلة فى [...]
سعد الدين ابراهيم ـ المصري اليوم ـ منذ تأسيس دولة باكستان، على أساس دينى، عام 1947، وهى والتعاسة لا تفترقان، خاصة إذا ما قورنت بالمجتمع الأم، الذى انفصلت عنه، وهو الهند. ولأن الغرض المُعلن لذلك [...]
By Reuters – Hundreds of Coptic Christians on Thursday attended the burial of a father and his son who were killed by a police officer in Egypt’s Minya province, amid cries for the state to [...]
By Daniel Funke – Poynter – Three times more journalists were jailed this year on “false news” charges than in 2016 — and Egypt led the way. According to a new report published by the [...]
كتابة – مدى مصر أصدر رئيس مجلس الوزراء مصطفى مدبولي قرارًا برقم 51 لسنة 2018، بتوفيق أوضاع 98 كنيسة و70 مبنى يخصص للخدمات، ونشرته الجريدة الرسمية في العدد رقم «49 مكرر ب»، الصادر اليوم، [...]
By WorldTribune – U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 11 signed legislation to direct U.S. humanitarian assistance to persecuted religious minorities in Iraq and Syria who were targeted [...]
By Hamza Hendawi - AP – Shady Lewis Botros says his recently published novel — “Ways of the Lord” — can be broadly viewed as an attempt to answer one question: What it’s like to be a [...]
هدى المهداوي ـ مدى مصر ـ بموجب ما اتفقت عليه الجلسة العرفية بقرية كوم الراهب بمركز سمالوط في المنيا، أفرجت السلطات اﻷمنية أمس، اﻷربعاء، عن 19 شخصًا من أبناء القرية، الذين أُلقي القبض عليهم في [...]
تريزا كمال ـ المصري اليوم ـ أصدرت مطرانية مغاغة والعدوة للأقباط الأرثوذكس، مساء الخميس، بيانا بشأن مقتل مقاول ونجله بمدينة المنيا، على يد «شرطي» حارس كنيسة نهضة القداسة. وذكر البيان: «شاركنا نحن [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – A Muslim policeman charged with guarding a Coptic Christian church shot and killed two Copts—a father, 49, and his son, [...]
By Associated Press— The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass trials and [...]
By POMED – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised to improve the situation of the country’s Christians, who by many estimates constitute about ten percent [...]
ريمون الراوي ـ وطني ـ وسط جنازة ملتهبة اليوم الخميس، شارك فيها الالاف من أهالي مدينة المدينة وقراها، لقبطيان قتلا علي يد الشرطي المكلف بحراسة أحد الكنائس، وهم عماد كمال صادق “الشهير بعماد المقدس [...]
By World Watch Monitor – An Egyptian court has sentenced a Coptic Christian to three years in prison after he was found guilty of “insulting Islam in the first degree”. Abdo Adel, 43, from [...]
وطني ـ انتهت منذ قليل جلسة الصلح الثانية التى عقدت بين أقباط ومسلمي قرية “كوم الراهب” بمركز سمالوط محافظة المنيا، وذلك باحد منازل كبار عائلات قرية “ابو سيدهم” وضمت عدد من رجال الدين المسيحى [...]
By Watani – The police has caught an unspecified number of Copts and Muslims in the village of Koum al-Raheb in Samalout, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, and tightened security over the [...]
وطني ـ قام بعض المتشددين اليوم بالاعتداء على منازل اقباط قرية كوم الراهب التابعة للوحدة المحلية بشوشه مركز سمالوط بالمنيا ، بسبب قيام الاقباط امس بفتح مبنى كنسى جديد تابع لمطرانية سمالوط واقامة [...]
د. خالد منتصر ـ القدرة على الإجابة الصحيحة مرتبطة ومشروطة بالقدرة على طرح وصياغة السؤال الصحيح بجسارة ودون خوف من تجريس مجتمع أو بطش سلطة، ونحن لدينا خلط، فنحن دائماً نردد: نحن الأمة الإسلامية، [...]
TIMEP Brief – Reporters Without Borders ranked Egypt 161st out of 180 countries for press freedom in 2017, citing campaigns by security forces to marginalize dissenting media opinions and [...]
By Lela Gilbert – Hudson Institute – Egypt’s Christian community faces dangers that most other Egyptians needn’t fear. Threats of violence during church services, attacks on buses [...]
By – Mada Masr – Security measures on the road leading to the St. Samuel Monastery in Minya where seven Coptic Christians were killed in a militant attack in early November were once [...]
By Ashraf Hakim and Asmahan Soliman – Mada Masr – Plans to amend Egypt’s Constitution — including those that would extend President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s term in office — are [...]
د. خالد منتصر ـ الوطن ـ نشرت مجلة «روزاليوسف» تحقيقاً كارثياً فى منتهى الخطورة عن الحضانات والمدارس السلفية فى مصر، بالطبع مر مرور الكرام فى مجتمع ما زال مشغولاً ومهووساً بفستان رانيا يوسف، وسيظل [...]
By Egyptian Streets – A committee headed by Prime Minister and Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved the legalization of 168 churches and buildings on Friday. The committee officially [...]
By Nader Shukry – Watani – Coptic Mass was held in the Saudi Arabian capital al-Riyadh on Saturday 1 December 2018. Anba Markos, Metropolitan of Shubra-Kheima, Cairo, said Mass which [...]
د. فؤاد عبد المنعم رياض ـ الأهرام ـ الإنسان عدو ما يجهل، والمواطن المسلم العادى لا مرجعية له فى معرفة أخيه المسيحى سوى المعلومات المشوَّهة الناجمة عن الخطاب الدينى المضلل والمتعصب وعن تجاهل مختلف [...]
نادر شكري ـ وطني ـ تبددت أمال أسرة جرجس بارومى ، بعد علمهم بعودة ابنهم جرجس بارومى إلى سجنه ، وجاء القرار برفض الإفراج عنه بعد عرضه على الأمن العام لتستمر معانا بارومى في محبسه رغم كافة [...]
By James Tapsfield, Political Editor, The Mail (UK) – Archbishop of Canterbury has highlighted the plight of Christians in Middle East Justin Welby said followers of the faith are subect to [...]
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer – The Hill – President Trump will soon have a chance to make up for some lost time in supporting Iraqi religious minorities that ISIS threatened with [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “The non-implementation of the law has brought us a gang of hardliners who have become above the law.” — Human rights [...]
By MEMRI – Pakistani PM Imran Khan Says ‘No Mention Of Jesus In History,’ Announces Int’l Anti-Blasphemy Convention: The West Should Be Made To Understand Our Love For [...]
By Hamza Hendawi – AP – Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the body is [...]
By World Tribune – British Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected a Pakistani Christian woman’s asylum request after being advised that the move would “stoke tensions” among the UK’s three [...]
By Samuel Smith – The Christian Post – A Coptic journalist has detailed her frustration living as a woman in an Egyptian society where men regularly treat Christian woman as whores, [...]
By Matthew Continetti – National Review – Why hasn’t she been granted asylum? Asia Bibi got into an argument with her co-workers and ended up in jail. Bibi is a Pakistani Catholic and [...]
By MP Garnett Genuis – Good News Journal – I was very saddened to learn of yet another attack on the Egyptian Christian community. Seven Egyptian Christian pilgrims were recently [...]
By AP – An Egyptian rights group says the country’s Christians are suffering increased discrimination despite official efforts to address their grievances. The finding comes in a report [...]
المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية ـ أصدرت المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية اليوم تقرير “مع إيقاف التنفيذ! عام على لجنة توفيق أوضاع الكنائس”، الذي يتناول بالتوثيق والتحليل عمل لجنة توفيق [...]
