By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – The Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria described the area as “killing fields”, like the ones the Khmer Rouge created in Cambodia [...]
By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – The signatory human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s reckless refusal to release select groups of detainees for the sake [...]
by Bassam Tawil – Gatestone Institute – According to the report, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS have, through a number of fatwas, called on Muslims to produce “human biological [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – As 2019 drew to a close, I reviewed a number of Coptic issues that had not been resolved during the year, meaning they had to be carried into 2020 for [...]
By Bassam Tawil – Gatestone Institute – The plight of Christians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is one that is often ignored by [...]
By Declan Walsh and Elisabetta Povoledo – The New York Times CAIRO — When an Egyptian student was arrested at the Cairo Airport recently, it was hardly an unusual event. Egypt’s security [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – American Thinker – Largely unknown to and unreported in the West, a large, two-day conference was recently hosted (Jan. 27–28) by Al Azhar University in Egypt and [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – American Thinker Muslims around the world are thrilled at the recent news: “Harvard University ranks the Koran as the best book on justice” is the January [...]
By Charlie Hoyle – The New Arab In the Coptic Cathedral of the Nativity, on the eastern edges of Cairo, security was tight as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reiterated his longstanding [...]
By A.J. Caschetta – The National Review Another World Hijab Day (WHD) is fast upon us — the eighth since Bronx resident Nazma Khan founded the event in 2013. The protest-cum-demonstration [...]
By Amy Fallas – TIMEP – On November 23 security forces arrested Ramy Kamel, a Coptic activist and founder of the Maspero Youth Union (MYU), from his home in Cairo, preventing him from [...]
By Mada Masr – In the lead-up to each anniversary of the January 25th revolution, the authorities launch widespread security campaigns in downtown Cairo and its surrounding areas. These [...]
By Shahira Amin – Al-Monitor The Jan. 25, 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak unleashed a creative revolution with the spontaneous emergence of a variety of art [...]
By Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute Trust for Islamist politics in both the Middle East and North Africa has plummeted since the beginning of the Arab Spring. A survey for BBC Arabic [...]
By MEMRI – Erdoğan’s Chief Advisor And Former General Tanrıverdi Presents Vision – Reflected In Turkey’s Policy – Of A United Islamic Superpower Based On Shari’a [...]
By Mina Ibn Bakira – Washington Examiner – At midnight on Nov. 23, 2019, Egyptian state security broke into a young Coptic activist’s home and arrested him without a warrant, [...]
By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – How much bigger and more extended must this war on Christians become before the West considers it a “genocide” and acts to prevent [...]
By Dr. Wagdy Loza, C. Psych This article will provide an outline of the discrimination and suffering that the Copts of Egypt have been enduring since the Arabs invaded their land around 641 A.D. [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “You have this absurd situation where the scheme is set up to help Syrian refugees and the people most in need, Christians who have [...]
By Bernard-Henri Lévy – The Wall Street Journal – Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe, more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria. A [...]
By Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate – The Turkish government consistently shows contempt for the Christian history and heritage of Asia Minor, and particular disrespect for the rights [...]
By Mary Spencer – The National Review – Philip Glass’s otherworldly opera portrays the religious devotion of a pharaoh. The final opera in Philip Glass’s “portrait” trilogy, Akhnaten, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Preliminary reports from Egyptian authorities said that all three fires appeared to be accidents related to electrical or circuit failures, [...]
By Timothy E. Kaldas – TIMEP A “man-made miracle” is how Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of one of Egypt’s last remaining independent press outlets, Mada Masr, described her release to me [...]
By Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – “Everyone is equal before the law regardless of his language, race, sex, color, political opinion, philosophy, religious belief, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – On November 15, 2019, two of the foremost representatives of Christianity and Islam, Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Al Azhar—the [...]
By Michael Igoe – Devex WASHINGTON — In mid-September 2018, a Hungarian official named Tristan Azbej traveled to Washington, D.C. for a series of meetings and events he hoped would draw the [...]
By Dioscorus Boles – JOURNAL OF COPTIC CULTURE & POLITICS – Following the arrest of Ramy Kamil, the Coptic human rights activist on 23rd November 2019 by Egypt’s notorious [...]
By Sam Selsky, Senior Program Associate – Freedom House The current legal system punishes independent advocacy and perpetuates chronic abuses. In October 2011, thousands of Coptic [...]
By Peter Henne – Religion News Service As the Iowa caucuses approach, the Democratic presidential field continues to churn. Candidates try to clarify their stances on a variety of issues, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – One of the most refreshing aspects of Resolution 296—which acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, and which the House recently voted overwhelmingly for—is that it also [...]
By Lord David Alton – Decision Freedom of religion and freedom of conscience are the keystones of human rights and provide the foundations for truly free societies. In a world in which 250 [...]
By Noha Elhennawy – AP CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father’s death last year, Huda [...]
Full Transcript Congressman Jeff Fortenberry’s Interview with Mr. Tony Perkins Washington Watch with Tony Perkins 9 January 2019, 5:22-5:39 PM EST ***** Mr. Perkins: As I mentioned, I have been [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – What do Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri—that is, the late leader of ISIS, and the late and current leaders of [...]
By Matthew Schmitz – First Things – As the sun comes up, the men go out from Garbage City and into the streets of Cairo. Some walk alone, carrying empty plastic sacks over their [...]
By Sezen Şahin – Gatestone Institute – Member of (Turkish) Parliament Garo Paylan hinted that the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has not only failed to do enough to prevent hate [...]
By SDD – Some of the most vicious incitement against Christians in Egypt originates from a petite Egyptian woman sitting at a computer in her home in a quiet suburb of New Jersey. It is not [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Problems on hold The story of the Coptic Catholic Church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in the village of Higaza Qibli In Quos, Qena, some 570km south of [...]
By Ishak Ibrahim – TIMEP – In recent years, the Egyptian regime has promoted a new “vision” of Islam, both locally and internationally, to combat terrorism and religious extremism. [...]
By Samuel Tadros – With Holy Week starting in nine days, Copts across Egypt were preparing for the most important week in their faith. Unlike in the West, Easter—and, more precisely, the [...]
By Con Coughlin – Gatestone Institute – It is, therefore, the epitome of hypocrisy for Mr Erdogan to offer to take responsibility for the ISIS fighters being held in Kurdish-run [...]
By John J. Metzler – World Tribune – UNITED NATIONS — Sustained and increasing attacks on Christian minorities from the Middle East to West Africa are often tragically overlooked by [...]
كريمه كمال ـ المصري اليوم ـ أعرب المجلس القومى لحقوق الإنسان عن تقديره الوضع الخطير الذى تتعرض له البلاد جراء الحرب على الإرهاب التى فُرضت على مصر، لكنه انتقد فى الوقت نفسه تعرض مواطنين لإجراءات [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Problems on hold In last week’s Editorial, I listed the unlicensed churches which were granted legality throughout the last two years by the Cabinet [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “It’s tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn’t a religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters clad [...]
Book review by Terry Scambray – the New Oxford Review and first appeared in the Sept. 2019 issue) – We judge individuals by what they say and what they do. We judge cults, religions [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – The date 28 September 2019 marks two years since a specially-tasked Cabinet committee began looking into the legal status of unlicensed churches and [...]
By Bret Stephens– The New York Times – Egypt’s strongman repeats Hosni Mubarak’s errors, to everyone’s peril. Several years ago, in Cairo, I asked Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to name Hosni [...]
By Tawfik Hamid – Gatestone Institute – The motto of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) states: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “How ready is the government to go up against certain groups that try to impose their own will on others.” — Reverend Timotheus [...]
By Coptic Solidarity – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has taken a strong public stance against discrimination within football through their rhetoric, governing [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Note: The following is a book review of The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach. A shorter version was first published by the Middle East [...]
By WorldTribune – The attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania were an attack on “freedom itself,” then-President George W. [...]
By Samia Sidhom – Watani – Today 12 September 2019 coincides with the first day of the Coptic month of Tut, the first month of the Egyptian New Year 6261 and the Coptic New Year [...]
By Claudia Mende – Qantara.de – The declared goal of the Abrahamic Teams is to improve how Jews, Christians and Muslims interact with and live alongside each other. The project, which [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – Every year, Nigeria’s Boko Haram, which has gained a foothold in the neighboring African countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, appears to [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – Egypt’s leading authorities have reinstated a notoriously “radical” cleric and hate preacher to the pulpit (minbar), despite strong [...]
By Karen Hunt – Egyptian Streets – This morning I had the great joy of leading six girls from the Ramla villages of Luxor in a boxing workout. We are the Luxor Boxing Girls and all we [...]
By Aya Nader – Al Monitor – Egypt’s recently enacted law regulating the work of nongovernmental organizations is continuing to draw heavy fire from many human rights activists [...]
سحر الجعاره ـ المصري اليوم ـ «هل آن الأوان أن نعترف بأن الدولة مخترقة، وأن سوس التعصب ينخر عمودها الفقرى وسرطان «الإرهاب الفكرى» يسرى فى شرايينها!» هل آن الأوان أن نلطم الخدود ونشق الجيوب [...]
By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – “I don’t believe in these two words [human rights], there are no human rights. But in Western countries, there are animal rights. [...]
By MEMRI- On July 23, 2019, a video was circulated on social media documenting a meeting between Egyptian Immigration Minister Nabila Makram and members of the Egyptian community in Canada, in [...]
عادل نعمان ـ المصري اليوم ـ وزارة الأوقاف المصرية هدى الله بصيرتها ونوّر الله طريقها- تستعين بشيخ السلفية ياسر برهامى ليرفع ما ثقل عليها من أمور الدين، ويكمل ما نقص من عقائد الناس، ويستكمل بيديه [...]
أحمد الجمال ـ المصري اليوم ـ بعد تكرار السماح لبرهامى باعتلاء منابر المساجد بإذن رسمى، فإننى أستأذن فى أن أكرر بعضا مما كتبته منذ أكثر من أربع سنوات. أحاول السعى لمعرفة متى وكيف وأين كسر المدعو [...]
Par Faraj Benoît Camurat – Le Figaro – Voilà cinq ans, les djihadistes de l’État islamique envahissaient la plaine de Ninive, persécutant les minorités chrétiennes et yazidies. La [...]
By Uzay Bulut, the Gatestone Institute – “The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports that the police often turn a blind eye to reports of abduction and forced conversions thereby [...]
Editors Note – Mr. Magdi Khalil, a founding member of Coptic Solidarity and member of the Executive Committee has been banned from Facebook for one month. The supposed reason for this ban [...]
By Paul Marshall – Religion Unplugged (COMMENTARY) On July 15-18, the U.S. State Department, under the auspices of Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and directly hosted by [...]
سحر الجعاره ـ المصري اليوم ـ «« أعلم يا سيدتى أن مشكلتى حساسة وشائكة، وأن البوح بمخاوفى يشعرنى بالهزيمة الإنسانية والاجتماعية.. ولست مضطرا للقول بأننى رجل شرقى كان من الصعب علىّ أن ألجأ لمشورة [...]
By The Wall Street Journal – The State Department is holding its second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom this week, and on Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will announce a [...]
Par Renaud Girard – Le Figaro – Depuis 2001, le cancer islamiste a plus progressé que régressé dans le monde. La contre-offensive occidentale a globalement échoué. Presque une [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The root of these violations appears to be Turkey’s denial of its extermination of the indigenous Christian peoples from 1913 to 1923. [...]
By A.J. Caschetta – MEF- The New English Review – Turning charismatic autocrats into icons of progress is one of the more annoying habits of the left. Che Guevara should be remembered [...]
المطلوب رقم واحد على قائمة الإرهابيين في العالم طبيب بل هو جراح خريج أرقى الجامعات المصرية. قادة الإخوان والجماعات الجهادية السلفية معظمهم من خريجي الكليات العملية وعلى رأسها الطب والهندسة. أغلب [...]
حمدي رزق ـ المصري اليوم ـ فى كشف حساب العام المنصرم 2018 على بوابة دار الإفتاء المصرية رقم عجيب، عدد الفتاوى الصادرة عن الدار فى عام مضى بلغ أكثر من مليون فتوى، شملت كل ما يهم المسلم فى مناحى [...]
By Adel Guindy – for CS – The annual report on International Religious Freedom by the U.S. State Department was recently issued. It documents the state of religious freedom in 200 [...]
By Maged Atiya – Salamamoussa – In a recent interview with the Coptic Canadian History Project, Dr Angie Heo, a scholar of Coptic culture, stated that she sees a special [...]
By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – “Christianity originated in the Middle East. Thus, the displacement or evacuation of Christians from the Middle East is very dangerous [...]
By Phillip Kosloski – Aleteia – Writing in the 4th century, St. Cyril of Alexandria recognized the many struggles Christians faced on a daily basis and sought to find a remedy for [...]
By Philip Jenkins – Every so often the Vatican announces the canonization of a new saint, an event that marks the culmination of a detailed investigation that might have lasted decades. [...]
By Dr. Maged Atiya – It was an unexpected sight. During the African games in Cairo this week a stadium crowd displayed a banner, nearly 30 feet wide, in the red, white and black tricolors [...]
د. طارق حجي ـ عندما أستعمل مصطلح “التراث الإسلامي” فإنني أقصد كل ما يلي : ثقافة بدو صحارى الجزيرة العربية التى أبدع فى تشخيصها إبن خلدون كما أقصد النصوص المؤسسة وكتب الأحاديث والسيرة [...]
By Hal Meawad – Former Executive Committee Member of Coptic Solidarty; Current Advisory Board Member As a Copt, I’m in debt to President Sisi for ridding the Country of the Muslim [...]
وحيد حامد ـ المصري اليوم ـ […] .. رئيس الجمهورية يطالب سراً وعلانية بتجديد الخطاب الدينى، لكن كأنه يؤذن فى مالطة، وكأن الأزهر والمؤسسة الدينية بكاملها دولة أخرى لا تخضع للإدارة المصرية.. [...]
By Samuel Tadros – There is a tendency to describe it as similar to previous attacks, as part of the pattern we have seen for years now. It isn’t. The story begins with a Christian [...]
By Marlo Safi – National Review – In the Middle East, Christians have been facing a wave of persecution that has decimated their populations in countries such as Syria, Iraq, and [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Problems on hold Today I tackle yet another problem which deeply irks me and which I have vowed not to drop, this being the inequality between Egyptian [...]
منى أبو سنه ـ المصري اليوم ـ صوت الجماهير الآن هو الصوت السائد، بحيث يمكن القول إنه «لا صوت يعلو فوق صوت الجماهير»، فالنقابات من صنع الجماهير، وأعضاء البرلمان خاضعون لصوت الجماهير لأنهم هم الذين [...]
By Dr. Edy Cohen – The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies – BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,184, May 27, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing international neglect of the [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Many of the world’s most persecuted Christians have nothing whatsoever to do with colonialism or missionaries. Those most faced with [...]
by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – “What Erdogan refers to as ‘relocation’ was actually the genocidal deportation of civilian populations –mainly women, [...]
By: MEMRI – Introduction Since the ouster of Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi in 2013 and the rise to power of President ‘Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, the regime under Al-Sisi’s [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “The assailants asked the Christians to convert to Islam, but the pastor and the others refused. They ordered them to gather under a [...]
By Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi – The Wall Street Journal – From 1894 to 1924, a staggered campaign of genocide targeted not just the region’s Armenians but its Greek and Assyrian communities as [...]
By Lord David Alton – Catholic Herald – She is free at last, but Pakistan’s Christians still suffer – and Western leaders are doing little to help them At last, Asia Bibi is free. Six [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – It has been said that Egypt is the land of eternal changelessness, often in connection with the ever reliable and cyclical flooding of the [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – It’s official: Turkey plans on converting the Hagia Sophia museum—for centuries, one of Christendom’s grandest basilicas—into a mosque. Although President Erdogan often [...]
By Jack Doyle Associate Editor for The Daily Mail – Christians are ‘by far the most persecuted’ religious group and are enduring what amounts to genocide in some parts of the [...]
مجدى خليل – تعد مؤسسة الأزهر من أهم وأكبر المؤسسات السنية فى الدول الإسلامية جميعها، وهى مؤسسة قديمة يزيد عمرها عن الألف عام، وبها حاليا أكبر جامعة فى العالم من حيث عدد الطلاب، ويتبعها عدد [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – Islamic terrorists massacred over 300 people in a series of bombings that rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, April 21. Three of the most [...]
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 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 [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 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 Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – The “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” is being portrayed as a “historic pledge of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 . [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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، [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
