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 [...]
By Claire Evans – International Christian Concern “Why does God let these people kill innocent people?” Mariam is only 11 years old, but her question was long expected by her parents. Her [...]
By Rand Paul – Breitbart News – “I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind.” These are words that many Christians have said, or [...]
Shahira Amin – Al-Monitor – Legislator Ismail Nasreddin has announced plans to submit a bill to Egypt’s parliament that would remove religious affiliation from national ID [...]
د. فؤاد عبد المنعم رياض ـ الأهرام ـ أعلن النائب الجليل إسماعيل نصر الدين تقديمه مشروعا ينص على حذف خانة الديانة من بطاقة الرقم القومي. وهى الخانة التى تشطر مصر إلى شطرين، والتى تحل الانتماء [...]
By Lord Alton of Liverpool – Professor the Lord Alton of Liverpool and Independent Crossbench Member of the UK House of Lords After a visit, in 2015, to detention centres in Thailand, where [...]
By Religious Freedom Institute – Watch the speeches and panel discussions from the conference>> Twenty years ago, the 105th Congress passed the landscape-changing International [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Voice of the Copts Egyptian “democracy” is an endless comedy if you’re not suffering at the hands of it. Last month, Amr Hamroush, a graduate of Al-Ahzar Institute [...]
وجيه وهبه ـ المصري اليوم ـ ■ الإسلام دين الدولة، واللغة العربية لغتها الرسمية. هذا هو «النص» الذى رأى «طه حسين» أن وضعه فى الدستور قد تسبب فى أن أصبحت الحريات والحياة السياسية، فى خطر. وهو نص [...]
By Nina Shea – National Review – Pakistan has released the purported blasphemer against Islam. Now what nation will have the courage to grant her asylum? Europe is trying to placate [...]
سحر الجعاره ـ المصري اليوم ـ من المفارقات الغريبة أن وزارة الداخلية التى تصدر الرقم القومى للمواطنين تصر على الإبقاء على «خانة الديانة»، بينما فى إصدارها لجوازات السفر لا تذكر خانة الديانة.. رغم [...]
وطني ـ روى “عطا”، قرابني كنيسة مارجرحس بمنشية التحرير، “لوطني”، أنه في مساء ليلة الحادث، تم تكليفه هو و”عم سعيد” بخبز قرابين أكثر من المعتاد، حيث تلقت الكنيسة اتصال هاتفي من أحد خدام كنيسة [...]
By Stoyan Zaimov – The Christian Post – Church leaders in Nigeria have said that Christians are experiencing “pure genocide” as 6,000 people, mostly women and children, [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity (CS) is dedicated to advocating for religious freedom and equal citizenship for Egypt’s Coptic Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. [...]
كتب تامر إبراهيم ـ كايرو٢٤ـ قال سعيد فايز، المحامي القبطي، وأحد سكان منطقة عين شمس ، أن شخص حاول التسلسل إلى الكنيسة خلسة عبر الباب الجانبي لها أثناء فتحه لإستقبال المصلين المسيحيين. وأضاف فايز [...]
نشات ابوالخير ـ وطني ـ علمت ” وطنى ” انه تم القبض على متهم وتحويله إلى النيابة للتحقيق معه في تهمة اعتدائه بالسيف على الكاهن بيجيمي شوقي بالعصافرة. روى القس بيجيمى شوقى فرج كاهن كنيسة العذراء [...]
By Mai el-Sadany – The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy – Nearly one and a half years after Egypt’s parliament voted on legislation to create three new media regulators, the [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone – Seven pilgrims were shot to death, “just because they were Christian,” said Pope Francis after the attack. “The pilgrims were [...]
By Morning Star News – Islamic extremists warn of retaliation if she is allowed to leave country – A Christian mother who spent nine years on death row before being acquitted in [...]
By Karoline Kamel – MadaMasr – Church reports contradict claims that those killed in Minya put themselves at risk, reiterate calls for increased security on the road into St. Samuel. In the wake [...]
By Morning Star News – Funerals were held over the weekend in Egypt for seven Christians ambushed and killed on Friday (Nov. 2) in Islamist attacks. Hundreds of people attended the funeral [...]
By Nourhan Mostafa – Mada Masr – Translated by Ian Louie Safwat Shehata, a man from Minya who lost six relatives in Friday’s attack, recounts the ordeal Safwat Shehata, a man in [...]
By Religion News Service – The Coptic bishop of this city south of Cairo, Anba Makarios, spent the weekend trying to comfort mourners after two buses carrying Coptic Christians were [...]
By Lord David Alton- Pakistan receives an average of £383,000 in British taxpayers’ money each and every single day – £2.8 billion over 20 years. raised with Ministers on the floor of the House. [...]
By Jared Malsin and Amira El-Fekki – The Wall Street Journal – —Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Sunday said it killed 19 people suspected of involvement in a lethal attack on Coptic [...]
وحيد حامد ـ المصري اليوم ـ فى ظل الظروف الراهنة التى يعيشها الوطن، لا أعتقد أن هناك بارقة أمل فى أن ينتهى مسلسل العنف الدموى والكراهية المفرطة للإخوة الأقباط، وأعتقد أنه آن الأوان للتعامل مع هذه [...]
By Declan Walsh – The New York Times – Egypt said on Sunday that it had killed 19 militants linked to an ambush that left seven Christian pilgrims dead, as President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi [...]
مدى مصر ـ وقف صفوت شحاتة، الرجل الأربعيني، بجلبابه الصعيدي بالقرب من بوابة طوارئ مستشفى الشيخ زايد التخصصي، بمدينة الشيخ زايد. في الداخل تتواجد سيدتان وطفلان من أقاربه كانوا ضمن المصابين في هجوم [...]
By Ben Farmer – Telegraph UK – Christian woman spared the death penalty after her blasphemy conviction was overturned faces being barred from leaving Pakistan under a deal struck to [...]
VaticanNews – Pope Francis expresses his sorrow at the terrorist attack that struck the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt on Friday. In words following the Angelus prayer to the faithful in [...]
حامد عبد الصمد ـ صرت أفضل الصمت أمام الأحداث المحزنة، لأنها كثيرة جداً، ولكن الصمت في بعض الأحيان يعتبر تخاذلاً يقوي شوكة الظالمين ويكسر المظلومين. ولكني في الوقت نفسه لا أريد المشاركة في [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – For Immediate Release – PR Web (Washington, DC) November 2, 2018 Coptic Solidarity condemns the egregious attack on Coptic Pilgrims traveling to St. Samuel the [...]
By The Washington Post – Sudarsan Raghavan and Heba Farouk Mahfouz – CAIRO — Gunmen said to be from the Islamic State opened fire on a bus carrying worshipers returning from a remote [...]
وطني ـ تجمهر مئات الأقباط أمام مستشفي المنيا العام، بعد وصول الجثامين للمستشفي، انتظارا لخروج النعوش للكنيسة المقرر إقامة الصلوات علي الشهداء فيها. وحضر للمستشفي وفد من مطرانية المنيا، يرأسه [...]
By Jared Malsin – The Wall Street Journal – CAIRO—Gunmen on Friday killed seven people and wounded 12 in an attack on buses carrying Coptic Christians in rural Egypt, the [...]
By The New York Times – Declan Walsh and Mohamed Ezz — Islamist gunmen killed at least seven Coptic Christian pilgrims in Egypt on Friday and wounded at least 16 in an attack later claimed [...]
By Chris Baynes – Independent – At least seven people have been killed and 14 wounded in attack on a bus heading towards a Coptic Christian monastery in northern Egypt, No group has [...]
By Joanne Stocker – The Defense Post – A bus carrying Coptic Christian passengers to a monastery was attacked in Egypt’s Minya governorate, according to reports on Friday, November [...]
By Lindsay Griffin – Director of Development & Advocacy, Coptic Solidarity “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must [...]
By Shehab Khan – Independent Protesters have taken to the streets after a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan on blasphemy charges was acquitted. The country’s [...]
By BBC News – A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, a case that has polarised the nation. Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 after [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity strongly condemns the hateful vile anti-Semitic attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, which took the lives of eleven [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone – “I’m proud to be an Iraqi, I love my country. But my country is not proud that I’m part of it. What is happening to my people [...]
By Yaroslav Trofimov – The Wall Street Journal – Turks and Saudis have been enemies for centuries. Now the Khashoggi investigation has rekindled their fierce rivalry—and may upend the [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – Mentally impaired Yaqoob Bashir Masih was only 20 years old when he was accused of committing blasphemy in June 2015. He has been in prison ever since, and now his [...]
By Clifford Smith – Washington Project Director for Middle East Forum Let me begin with a qualifier: While I am an observer of Middle Eastern affairs and try to be as knowledgeable as one [...]
اسحق إبراهيم ـ قراءة سريعة في قرار مجلس الحكومة لتوفيق أوضاع الكنيسة المنشور (٢٣ ـ ١٠) في الجريدة الرسمية. وفقا للمنشور في الجريدة الرسمية فإنه لم تكتمل إجراءات التوفيق بشكل نهائي إلا لنحو 7 [...]
By Bryant Harris – Al-Monitor With President Donald Trump’s support among evangelicals sliding ahead of next month’s mid-term elections, the White House is seeking to energize the [...]
By Marianne Melleka Boules – Coptic Voice How lack of representation in the literary industry is hurting the Coptic community, and what we can do to take matters into our own hands What I’m [...]
By Neil Hicks – Senior Director for Advocacy, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies This speech was given at Coptic Solidarity’s 3rd Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day [...]
By Jonathan Adly – History of the Copts Podcast This is the transcript of a talk that was given at the Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day in Washington, DC, October 3, 2018 Good [...]
By Robert Nicholson – Providence As Christians we care about our brothers and sisters in the Middle East, and because we care about Middle Eastern Christians, we care deeply about the [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – October 3, 2018 Coptic Solidarity (CS) hosted its 3rd Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day (MCMRD) on October 3, 2018, in the US Capitol Visitor Center. CS [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Ruling Expected on the Fate of Asia Bibi In her memoirs, Asia Bibi wonders “whether being a Christian in Pakistan today is not just a [...]
By Nader Shukry – Watani – Al-Saff court in Giza has today, 15 October 2018, acquitted all 20 defendants in what has become known in the media as the “Etfeeh church case”. The [...]
وطني ـ أدان الدكتور إيهاب رمزى محامى أشرف عبد عطية ابن سيدة الكرم ، استمرار التحفظ على أشرف عطية رغم الإفراج عنه منذ أسبوع بعد إنتهاء مدة عقوبته التى حبس فيها عاما لاتهامه بإقامة علاقة غير شرعية [...]
By Majid Rafizadeh – Gatestone – In response to the latest abuses against Christians, Amnesty International has initiated an “urgent action” appeal. It has called on the [...]
د. خالد منتصر ـ تم القبض على الإرهابى الخطير هشام عشماوى الذى كان مختبئاً فى مدينة درنة الليبية. العملية هى ضربة قوية وفى مقتل، لتنظيمات الإرهاب التى كانت تستهدف مصر، ولكن السؤال: ماذا عن هشام [...]
كريم صبحي ـ اليوم السابع ـ 12 شهرًا مرت على مقتل كاهن المرج، حيث تمر اليوم الذكرى السنوية للحادث، الذى راح ضحيته القمص سمعان شحاتة على يد المتهم أحمد سعيد . فيما يلى ننشر أبرز المحطات التى مرت [...]
وطني ـ قالت مصادر قريبة من جرجس بارومي الذي يقضي عقوبة الحبس في قضية أحداث فرشوط بقنا التي وقعت في 2009 إن إدارة السجن الذي يقضي العقوبة به بالقاهرة الكبرى، أرسل ملفه للمرة الثانية أمس إلى إدارة [...]
By El-Sayed Gamal El-Din & Ayat Al Tawy – Ahram Online – An Egyptian military court sentenced on Thursday 17 people to death and handed dozens of others hefty jail terms over [...]
By Magdi Khalil – Violence against Copts in Egypt is a serious phenomenon expressed through an extended series of barbaric attacks on a peaceful minority. The beginning of this phenomenon [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Canada Free Press – On August 22, in the village of Al Zenika located in the Province of Luxor (Upper Egypt), Islamists demanded the stoppage of prayer in the [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – It’s always something when the leaders of nations known for abusing human rights preach to others about the need to respect human rights. Take Egyptian President Sisi’s [...]
By MEMRI- During a September 6 interview on Egypt’s Sada Al-Balad TV network, Egyptian author Tarek Heggy said that women and religious “others,” like Christian Egyptians, are [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Today the International Religious Freedom Roundtable sent a multi-faith letter to Chairmen Royce and Ros-Lehtinen signed by 41 organizations and individuals to ask [...]
By WorldWatchMonitor- A Pakistani court has acquitted a suspected accomplice in two suicide bombings that targeted a church in Peshawar five years ago. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up as [...]
د. فؤاد عبد المنعم رياض ـ وَرَدَ بإحدى الصحف أن نائبًا بالبرلمان تقدَّم باقتراح بإنشاء مجالس عرفية كى تسهم، على حد قوله، فى عمل القضاء لاستقرار المجتمع والقضاء على الفتن الطائفية. ولا يخفى ما فى [...]
By The Economist – Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is creating a lot of enemies. Pity the future historian who tries to decipher the workings of Egyptian courts. On September 15th police unexpectedly [...]
صفوت سمعان ـ قضية كنيسة الزنيقة بإسنا المتهم فيها 20 شخص منهم 5 أقباط تم الإفراج عن الجميع يوم 2018/9/22 بكفالة 1000 جنيه بعد استمرار حبس لمدة 30 يوما. وقيدت كقضية محكمة أمن دولة عليا، والتهم [...]
By Morning Star News – Nearly a year after declaring that attacks on Christians had hit a level not seen in decades, a Coptic Orthodox bishop in Egypt continues to lament a stream of [...]
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 Coptic Solidarity – For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) September 26, 2018 Coptic Solidarity encourages everyone to join on October 3, at the US Capitol Visitor Center, Room 200, from [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – The European Union needs to develop an overarching religious freedom policy strategy, and strengthening the mandate of the Special Envoy is an important step towards [...]
By AINA News – Four Assyrians were elected to the Swedish Parliament in the national elections which took place on September 9. They are Robert Hannah from the Liberal Party (Liberalerna), [...]
By Amnesty International – The crackdown on freedom of expression under Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has reached alarming new levels unparalleled in Egypt’s recent history, [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity invites you to join us in commemorating and seeking justice for the many modern Coptic martyrs who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for their faith [...]
القاهرة ـ «القدس العربي» – انتقادات واسعة واتهامات طاولت زيارة البابا تواضروس الثاني، بابا الإسكندرية وبطريركية الكرازة المرقسية، إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، باعتبارها جاءت في إطار [...]
By Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will address the general debate of the 73rd session for the UN General Assembly, held from [...]
By: David Kirkpatrick – ChurchTimesUK – 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 – I get a lot of blank stares when asked what I do. For starters, many Americans have never heard of Copts. I’m certain some initially think I’m talking about cops or [...]
By International Christian Concern – International Christian Concern (ICC) has documented a sharp escalation of attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt within the last two weeks. During [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – Coptic Christians in various parts of Egypt have been left with no choice but to hold funeral services in the streets because of the closure of their churches. [...]
درية شرف الدين ـ المصري اليوم ـ هل ستمر حكاية قرية «دمشاو هاشم» بالمنيا هكذا مرور الكرام؟ هل يراهن البعض من ذوى المصلحة أو الغرض على ذهابها بعد أيام إلى طى النسيان؟ هل يرى بعض المسؤولين فى تلك [...]
By 21 Wilberforce – Speak Freedom Alert In Egypt, a law designed to open doors has served to close them instead. Dozens of Coptic Christian churches have been shut down since Law 80/2016, [...]
For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) September 11, 2018 The appointment of two Coptic governors in Egypt has been lauded as a major improvement for Copts and women’s rights in Egypt, despite [...]
بيان صحفي ـ 10 سبتمبر 2018 تدين المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية الضغوط التي تمارسها مؤسسات الدولة على الأقباط المتضررين بقرية دمشاو هاشم بمحافظة المنيا، من أجل قبول التصالح العرفي، فيما يخص وقائع [...]
أ/د فؤاد عبدالمنعم رياض ـ لا يكفى بحال من الأحوال للقضاء على مشكله الاعتداء على الاقباط وطردهم من منازلهم وقراهم لمنعهم من الصلاه، مجرد التحقيق فى الجريمه فحسب ومحاكمة مرتكبيها بل يتعين كما يقضى [...]
د. أحمد الخميسي ـ الدستور ـ هل تحتاج مناجاة الرب إلى ختم الدولة؟، وهل تحتاج ملاقاة الرب فى الرحلة الأخيرة إلى ختم الدولة؟، نعم يحدث هذا فى مصر، حينما يحتاج أقباطها إلى الشوارع لإقامة الصلاة وإلى [...]
د. محمد نور فرحات ـ المصري اليوم ـ لا مجال للخلاف السياسى عندما يتعلق الأمر بوحدة الوطن وتماسكه. الفتنة الطائفية لم تطل بوجهها القبيح على مصر الحديثة إلا منذ نصف قرن مع سياسات السادات الخرقاء عن [...]
Afghanistan, China, North Korea, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya, among the countries with the most serious violations of religious freedom. – By CNA/EWTN News – An annual [...]
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 La Croix (via AINA) – Muslims angered by the presence of a church in a Coptic Christian diocese in Egypt attacked the homes of Christian villagers, resulting in three people being [...]
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 [...]
د. خالد متصر ـ الجماهير التى انطلقت لتحطيم وحرق بيوت وممتلكات أقباط قرية دمشاو هاشم بالمنيا بكل حماس لمجرد علمهم بإقامة صلاة فى أحد البيوت ورعبهم وفزعهم من أن يتحول هذا البيت إلى كنيسة، هم نفس [...]
By Sondos Asem – Middle East Eye – A Coptic bishop has accused police of ignoring calls to protect Christians ahead of anticipated violence in a village in southern Egypt last [...]
المصري اليوم ـ قال الدكتور عبدالعزيز قنصوة، محافظ الإسكندرية الجديد، إن «الله سبحانه وتعالى هو فقط من يحاسبنا على أعمالنا، وهو من يملك الجنة والنار، لذا لا يجب أن نحاسب بعضنا البعض». وأضاف [...]
By Egypt Independent – Head of the Egyptian Parliament’s religious committee Amr Hamrouch presented a draft law calling for a jail sentence of three to five years for anyone who defames a [...]
By AP — A group of Muslims attacked several Christian homes in a village in Upper Egypt, injuring three people, officials with a Coptic Christian diocese said on Friday. The assailants objected [...]
By Bryant Harris – Al-Monitor – The Donald Trump administration is releasing another $195 million in military assistance to Egypt after unblocking an identical amount last month, [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – A Coptic community in Egypt’s Minya governorate, whose church was closed in July following protests by local Muslims, continues to be a target of mob attacks and [...]
By: AP- Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has sworn in several new provincial governors, including the first-ever Coptic Christian woman to hold the position. Manal Awad Mikhail was [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – A Coptic diocese in Upper Egypt last week saw its eighth church closed following attacks by villagers protesting against the church building being legally [...]
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 [...]
د. خالد منتصر ـ #من_الذي_زرع_في_دماغ_هذا_الشرطي_أن_المسيحيين_كفرة إن من زرعها هو من أقنعه بأن تهنئة النصارى حرام ومودتهم القلبية لا تجوز، من زرعها هو من يصر على أنهم الضالون المغضوب عليهم، من [...]
وطني ـ انتهت نيابة إسنا بمحافظة الأقصر، يوم السبت، من تحقيقاتها مع 10 متهمين بينهم خمسة من الأقباط ، في الأحداث التي شهدتها قرية “الزنيقه” التابعة لمجلس قروي “أصفون المطاعنة” بمركز اسنا، بعد [...]
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 [...]
الأقباط متحدون ـ فوجئ كاهن وشعب كنيسة الشهيد العظيم مار جرجس بقرية الزيتون بمركز ناصر بمحافظة بني سويف خلال القداس الإلهي بدخول شرطي الإطفاء المكلف بالمشاركة في تامين الكنيسة خلال القداس إلي [...]
نادر شكري ـ وطني ـ ساد الهدوء قرية الزنيقه بمركز إسنا بمحافظة الأقصر بعد الأحداث التي وقعت يوم الأربعاء الماضي، واليوم عقب صلاة الجمعة بعد تجمهر من قبل متشددين لرفض الصلاة بمبنى كنسي بالقرية تابع [...]
فنار مصر ـ كشف رأفت سمير حبيب، رئيس منظمة الاتحاد المصرى لحقوق الإنسان بجنوب الصعيد، إن أزمة كنيسة السيدة العذراء مريم بقرية الزنيقة”، بمركز إسنا، التى تجمهر عليها المتشددين اليوم وأمس، وتم [...]
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, [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – A young Christian boy from a small village in Egypt’s Minya region, who saw his father killed by Islamic militants, dreams of becoming a police officer so he can [...]
For Immediate Release Washington, DC (PRWEB) August 20, 2018 Coptic Solidarity has coordinated an urgent campaign, requesting that Rep. Ed Royce ( R- CA), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs [...]
By BBC – Arabic – صادق الرئيس المصري، عبد الفتاح السيسي، على قانون يقضي بتشديد الرقابة على الإنترنت في البلاد. ويمنح القانون الجديد جهات التحقيق المختصة حق حجب المواقع الإلكترونية إذا [...]
653 — الدورة الثالثة عشر بعد المئة للكونجرس )2013-2014 القانون العام رقم 113-161 (2014/08/08 [القانون العام رقم 161 للدورة الثالثة عشر بعد المئة للكونجرس] [صادر من مكتب النشر التابع لحكومة [...]
H.R. 1150 — الدورة الرابعة عشر بعد المئة للكونجرس 2015-2016 القانون العام رقم 114-281 (2016/16/12) [القانون العام رقم 281 للدورة الرابعة عشر بعد المئة للكونجرس] [صادر من مكتب النشر التابع [...]
وزارة الخارجيّة الأمريكيّة – قسم حماية الحُريّات الدينيّة – ورقة مقدَّمة من فرانك ر. وولف، عضو الكونجرس الأمريكي في الفترة من ١٩٨١-٢٠١٤ في البداية، أود أن أقدَّم الشكر لإدارة الرئيس [...]
H. RES. 673 – Expressing concern over attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt Introduced in House (12/21/2017) 115th CONGRESS – 1st Session IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 21, [...]
By Ishak Ibrahim – The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy تعيش الكنيسة القبطية الأرثوذكسية هذه الأيام فترة صعبة وفارقة، بعد قتل الأنبا إبيفانيوس أسقف ورئيس دير القديس أبو مقار، داخل [...]
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 [...]
دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة (CNN) – اقترح الرئيس التونسي تغيير ما يعرف بـ”مجلة الأحوال الشخصية” في تونس، وذلك في إطار مشروع قرار يهدف لتحقيق المساواة بالميراث بين الرجل والمرأة، [...]
By Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm Giza Prosecution office on Sunday has ended investigations of the murder of two Copts at liquor shop in al-Omraniya during [...]
By BBC World – Prosecutors in Egypt have charged a defrocked monk with the murder of a Coptic Christian Bishop at a desert monastery. Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was found dead in a pool of [...]
Below you can watch the panel discussion titled Government, Media and Societal Denial and Deception hosted during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on June 22, [...]
By Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institiute – The UN recommended 1,358 Syrian refugees for resettlement in Britain during the first quarter of 2018, of whom only four were Christians. [...]
محمود العلايلي ـ المصري اليوم ـ بالاطلاع على الدستور المصرى وعلى المادة الثانية منه المنصوص عليها من العام 1923، مع إضافة حرفى الألف واللام على كلمتى مصدر ورئيسى فى عهد الرئيس السادات (*)، فى [...]
By Marc Español – Directa – Era jornada de proves al camp de futbol del club egipci Petrojet, establert a la ciutat portuària de Suez. Mina Samir, un jove de 17 anys, evoca aquell [...]
By Reuters – An Egyptian military court sentenced a poet to three years in prison on Tuesday for publishing false news and insulting the military after he gained publicity for writing a [...]
By Khaled Mansour – Open Global Rights Between 2014 and early 2018, the Egyptian government cracked down with unprecedented fury on civil society organizations (CSOs). Previous regimes [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – The US government (USG) recently hosted the first ever Ministerial to advance Religious Freedom in Washington, DC, July 24 – 26. The current administration made [...]
عماد خليل ـ المصري اليوم ـ «غارقا فى دمائه».. هكذا انتهت حياة الراهب الناسك، الأنبا إبيفانيوس، رئيس دير الأنبا مقار بوادى النطرون بالقرب من قلايته، عن عمر يناهز 64 عاماً، أمس الأول. وجاء حادث [...]
By Associated Press — Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church says a bishop has been found dead inside a monastery in the desert northwest of Cairo. Bishop Epiphanius is head of Anba Makar Monastery near [...]
Potomac Declaration Issued During Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom July 24-26, 2018 Preamble: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims in Article 18 that “everyone has the [...]
By Brian Dooley – The Hill – Last August, the State Department withheld $195 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) from Egypt. Rex Tillerson, then Secretary of State, said he [...]
By Adelle M. Banks – Religion News Service – The State Department concluded its first-ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom Thursday (July 26), with declarations promising [...]
By Nader Shukry – Watani – Further to news circulated this morning of the death of Anba Epiphanius, Abbot of the Monastery of St Macarius in Wadi al-Natroun in Egypt’s Western Desert, [...]
Statement on Blasphemy/Apostasy Laws بيان بشأن قوانين التجديف والردة نقف معا بصفتنا ممثلين للمجتمع الدولي دعما لحريتي الدين والتعبير المترابطتين. نحن نعارض بشكل صارم القوانين التي تعوق حرية [...]
By Declan Walsh – The New York Times – Egypt’s jail population has swelled. New prisoners include a Lebanese tourist who complained about Egypt on Facebook; a democracy activist who [...]
By Michael R. Pompeo – USA Today Around the world, religious minorities are persecuted and stripped of human rights. This is an issue many countries must work together to solve. Last month, [...]
By US White House – July 26, 2018 Thank you, Secretary Pompeo. To the Secretary, to Ambassador Brownback, to Administrator Green, Director Mulvaney, to the representatives of more than 80 [...]
By US Department of State – This week the U.S. Department of State hosted the first-ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. For three days we convened religious [...]
By WorldWatchMonitor – Maher Girgis Tawfiq, a 45-year-old father-of-four from the city of Beni Suef, had gone to the local police station on Friday 20 July to complain about alleged threats [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – On 2 July 2018, the Official Gazette’s issue 26 bis was published. It included the Prime Minister’s decision 1193 for 2018, which lists the official [...]
By Robert Spencer – Jihad Watch – The Coptic Christians are under tremendous pressure in Egypt, and in that light it is understandable why Pope Tawadros would say this, as [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – PJ Media – “Egypt’s version of the Hippocratic Oath, which all of the nation’s doctors — both Muslim and Christian — are required to take, contains [...]
By Gatestone Institute – Tom Quiggin – It can be said that Hamas has more than mere “ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, its own documents point out that the Muslim [...]
غلق المبنى الكنسي الجديد والأقباط يصلون في المبنى القديم.. هل إعلاء لكلمة المتشددين؟ نادر شكري ـ وطني ـ لماذا يرفض أهالي عزبة سلطان باشا بمحافظة المنيا ، وجود كنيسة للأقباط بالقرية ، ومن له حق [...]
Below you can watch the panel discussion titled ‘International Response and Responsibilities towards the Persecuted’ from Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Policy Day in the Capitol Visitor [...]
By BBC News – Egypt’s parliament has passed a controversial law that will allow the state to regulate social media users. Under the law, a personal social media account, blog or [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor A mob attacked a church in Minya, Egypt, on 13 July protesting against its legalisation and received a police officer’s approval, World Watch Monitor has learnt from local [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – Egypt’s version of the Hippocratic Oath, which all of the nation’s doctors—both Muslim and Christian—are required to take, contains wording that is not unlike the [...]
زياد بهاء الدين فاجأنى قرار رئيس مجلس الوزراء الصادر من أيام قليلة بشأن تنظيم الحفلات والمهرجانات كما فاجأ الكثيرين، ليس لأنه الأشد تأثيرا وتضييقا على حرية الرأى والتعبير، بل لأنه يعبر عن رغبة فى [...]
By George Mikhail – Al-Monitor Magda Haroun is well aware that responsibility for Egypt’s remaining Jewish heritage and history rests squarely on her shoulders. “I am the last one to close [...]
Session: International Legal Definitions of Persecution Hosted during Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Policy Day on June 21, 2018 in the Capitol Hill Visitor Center. Moderator: Dr. George [...]
Nader Shukry, Nevine Gadallah – Watani – The village of Sultan Basha in Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, was the scene of three days of demonstrations by the Muslim villagers against [...]
أحمد إبراهيم الشريف ـ اليوم السابع ـ هل صار انتقاد تكفير الأقباط جريمة؟.. طارق نور يطالب بحبس خالد منتصر فى بلاغ للنائب العام بسبب انتقاده لتكفير الأقباط فى برنامج بسمة وهبة.. فهل صاحب [...]
نادر شكري ـ وطني ـ للأسبوع الثاني على التوالي تظاهر عدد من المتشددين بعزبة سلطان باشا التابعة لمركز المنيا بمحافظة المنيا، ضد أقباط القرية احتجاجًا على إقامة شعائر دينية بمبنى كنسي بالقرية، يدخل [...]
By Rami Galal – Al- Monitor The Egyptian parliament approved July 3 a draft law offering special treatment to senior commanders of the armed forces. The draft law grants many unprecedented [...]
Below you can watch the speeches given by US Legislators at Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Policy Day in the Capitol Visitor Center on June 21, 2018. Coptic Solidarity is grateful for the [...]
By WorldWatch Monitor – An attack by a Muslim mob on Copts in a village in the Egyptian governorate of Minya on Monday (9 July) has left the Coptic community holed up in their houses, [...]
