By Mark Woods – Christianity 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
