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 FoRB in Full – A Blog by CSW – No case highlights the fervour and frustration associated with blasphemy more than that of Asia Noreen (better known as Asia Bibi), the Pakistani [...]

Video of a panel discussion titled Coptic Identity Revival: History, Education, Culture and Language  which took place during Coptic Solidarity’s 10th Annual Conference on June 21, 2019, at [...]

  September 17, 2019 Chairman: Mr Amr Yousseff Hassan El Ganainy Deputy Chairman: Mr Gamal Mohamed Ali Member: Ms Sahar Abdel Hak Ahmed Member: Mr Ahmed Abdallah Rad Member: Mr Mohamed Fadl [...]

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 [...]

Keynote address delivered by Pastor Andrew Brunson at Coptic Solidarity’s 10th Annual Gala Dinner on June 21, 2019.      

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 Wall Street Journal – By Nancy A. Youssef, Vivian Salama and Michael C. Bender —Jared Malsin contributed to this article. Quip drew attention to uncomfortable facet of U.S.-Egypt [...]

By Morning Star News – The appointment of a Christian woman to the council overseeing transition to civilian rule in Sudan is a hopeful sign, but some persecution-weary Christians are less [...]

By Samia Sidhom – Watani – Today 12 September 2019 coincides with the first day of the Coptic month of Tut, the first month of the Egypt​i​an 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 Declan Walsh and Nada Rashwan – The New York Times –  Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company [...]

Video of a panel discussion titled Reducing Institutionalized Discrimination in Egypt, which took place during Coptic Solidarity’s 10th Annual Conference on June 20, 2019, at the National [...]

للنشر الفوري واشنطن: 9 سبتمبر 2019 أطلقت اليوم منظمة التضامن القبطي (CS) حملة حقوقية عالمية جديدة يمكن من خلالها للأفراد في جميع أنحاء العالم إرسال رسائل مباشرة إلى الاتحاد الدولي لكرة القدم [...]

Remarks delivered by Coptic Solidarity’s Acting President, Ms. Caroline Doss  Esq., on June 20, 2019, at the National Press Club during 10th Annual Conference.  

By Coptic Solidarity – Christian News Wire For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) September 9, 2019 Today, Coptic Solidarity (CS) launched a new advocacy campaign by which individuals [...]

Egypt’s Copts: Prospects of Equality in a Radicalized Society View conference photo gallery>> Coptic Solidarity hosted its 10th Annual Conference on June 20-21, 2019 in Washington, DC. The [...]

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 [...]

سحر الجعارة ـ المصري اليوم ـ كيف تميز المسيحى من المسلم فى الطريق العام؟.. المفترض ألا تشعر بالفرق، الملامح واحدة، الشرود أو اليقظة مشتركان، معاناة ركوب المواصلات العامة، (أتوبيس، ميكروباص، مترو [...]

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 FIFA – The Bureau of the FIFA Council today decided to appoint a normalisation committee for the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) in accordance with art. 14 par. 1 (a) and art. 8 par. [...]

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 [...]

By MEMRI – In the recent years, Al-Azhar has consistently refrained from proclaiming the members of terror organizations, chief of them ISIS, to be infidels. Al-Azhar’s position is [...]

By World Watch Monitor – At least 150 Eritrean Christians were arrested by government officials during the last two months, with some of them held in an underground prison made up of [...]

By POMED – On August 21, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi officially signed a new NGO law, which parliament had passed on July 14. The law has drawn strong criticism from rights organizations [...]

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 Raymond Ibrahim – Al Kresta of Ave Maria Radio interviewed me yesterday on the topic of my recent article, “Systematic Discrimination: Christians Under Egyptian Rule.” We discussed [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Several countries introduced a resolution that the UN General Assembly adopted on May 28, 2019 making August 22 the International Day Commemorating the Victims of [...]

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 [...]

By Jared Malsin – Wall Street Journal – Authorities say the blast occurred after an explosive-laden car driving the wrong way hit three other cars, after initially calling it an [...]

By Egypt Today – CAIRO – 5 August 2019: Eight-eight unlicensed churches and affiliated service buildings have been granted approval to legalize their status. The committee in charge [...]

وطني ـ قررت محكمة جنايات المنيا تأجيل ثلاثة قضايا تتعلق بالأقباط لدورة أكتوبر المقبل وهم قضية تعرية السيده سعاد ثابت ” سيدة الكرم ” ، وحرق منازل أقباط الكرم ، والقضية الثالثة قتل المواطن القبطي [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – Coptic Solidarity (CS), an international human rights organization devoted to ameliorating the plight of Egypt’s indigenous inhabitants—the [...]

By The New York Times – MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Villagers in northeastern Nigeria are fleeing their homes, leaving everything behind, after armed men on motorbikes roared into their area and [...]

Par: Liberation (Paris) – En visite au Canada, la ministre de l’Immigration de l’Egypte a suscité la polémique en évoquant la décapitation de ceux qui diraient du mal de son [...]

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 National Post – Canada – Egyptian ex-patriates cite evidence that critics of the Sisi government in Canada are already under watch. ‘We are surely being followed and [...]

By Radio Canada – En visite officielle au Canada, la ministre égyptienne de l’Immigration, Nabila Makram, a essuyé des critiques après avoir menacé, sur le ton de la blague, les opposants [...]

By Lord David Alton – (Extended version of) Remarks in Washington DC on July 18th 2019 by David Alton at a special conference on “Christian Holy Sites and Holy Places in the Middle East,” [...]

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 [...]

By POMED – According to Coptic Solidarity, an organization defending religious minorities and religious freedom in Egypt, Joel Rosenberg, an author and pundit, delivered “misleading” [...]

By Lord David Alton – Speech At The Ministerial on Religious Freedom in Washington DC Watch Speech>> In his opening remarks Ambassador Sam Brownback told us that we are launching a [...]

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 [...]

ماهر رزق الله ـ الهيئة الكندية قامت علي مبادئ وقيم ورثناها من الأب الروحي لمؤسس الهيئة الدكتور سليم نجيب، وبالرغم التغيرات الكثيرة التي حدثت من حولنا ظلت الهيئة وستظل محافظة علي مبادئها وقيمها [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – (Washington, DC) July 19, 2019 While speaking at the 2nd Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom which Secretary Pompeo is hosting this week in Washington, DC, guest [...]

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 [...]

المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية ـ تطلق المبادرة المصرية اليوم حملتها: “مسيحيات في البطاقة… مسلمات في الإرث” بهدف التنبيه إلى معاناة آلاف النساء المسيحيات المحرومات من الحق في [...]

وطني (معدل) ـ غادر الأقباط المعتصمون بالمبنى الكنسى بقرية كوم الراهب مركز سمالوط بالمنيا، ويجري بحث حلول للأزمة وسوف يعقد الأمن لقاء مع ممثلى المطرانية للوصول إلى حل. وتم غلق المبنى وعاد الأقباط [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – During the latest Ministerial to Advance Religion Freedom, organized by the US Department of State, Ambassador Sam Brownback presented Lord David Alton and [...]

وطني ـ في تطور جديد لازمة قرية كوم الراهب التابعة لقرية ابو سيدهم مركز سمالوط بالمنيا ،حيث قام الأمن بغلق مبنى كنسي تم فتحه العام الماضي ، وفشلت كافة المساعي لإعادة فتحه مجددا، لم يجد الأقباط [...]

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 [...]

يوسف سيدهم ـ وطني ـ حمل‏ ‏الأسبوع‏ ‏الماضي‏ ‏ثلاثة‏ ‏أخبار‏ ‏طيبة‏ ‏ذات‏ ‏نكهة‏ ‏قبطية‏، ‏تمثل‏ ‏إنجازات‏ ‏إيجابية‏ ‏علي‏ ‏ثلاثة‏ ‏أصعدة‏: ‏اثنان‏ ‏منها‏ ‏طال‏ ‏انتظارهما‏ ‏بينما‏ ‏الثالث‏ [...]

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 [...]

By POMED – In a public statement released on July 11, 10 human rights organizations, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Nadeem Center, and Freedom [...]

Par Hèlène Sallon – Le Monde – La minorité religieuse est discriminée dans la pratique du ballon rond de haut niveau, dans une Egypte qui accueille jusqu’au 19 juillet la Coupe [...]

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 [...]

وطني ـ أرسل رهبان دير الأنبا صموئيل المعترف بالمنيا اليوم 9 يوليو 2019 ، استغاثة لكل من وزير الداخلية ومدير أمن المنيا ، للتدخل لوقوف ما يتعرض له الدير من اجراءات وصفت بالعراقيل فى منع دخول بعض [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  July 9, 2019 On June 21, 2019, the State Department released its annual report on International Religious Freedom, which documents the state of religious freedom in [...]

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 [...]

Coptic Solidarity Note-  Coptic Solidarity looks forward to attending and participating in the 2nd International Religious Freedom Ministerial to be hosted next week in Washington, DC. In [...]

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 Ishak Ibrahim – TIMEP – Egypt’s 2016 Church Construction Law established what was, on its face, a streamlined process for the construction of churches, and also provided for a [...]

BBC Sounds –  Why aren’t there any Coptic Christians in Egypt’s AFCON squad? Some Coptic Christians, who make up 10% of the country’s population, don’t feel that the [...]

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 [...]

جرجس وهيب ـ وطني ـ أعلنت صفحة “رواد تويتر”، تحمل شعار داعش عبر موقع التواصل الاجتماعي تويتر،اليوم السبت، أنها تقف وراء واقعة اختفاء الفتاة القبطية سارة عاطف، الطالبة بكلية التجارة جامعة بني سويف، [...]

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 US Department of State –  WHY AND HOW THE REPORTS ARE PREPARED The Department of State submits this annual report to the Congress in compliance with section 102(b) of the International [...]

By Marlo Safi – National Review – Last week, I attended the Coptic solidarity conference in Washington, D.C. The title of the two-day long conference was “Egypt’s Copts: Prospects of [...]

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 [...]

By Nader Shoukry – Watani – The first week of this month, June 2019, saw the resolution of two cases of Coptic young women who had gone missing. The cases took place in two villages [...]

by John Rossomando – IPT News – Pakistan wants the United Nations’ help cracking down on what it considers Islamophobia and hate speech around the globe. Islamophobia “is [...]

By Morning Star News –  A young Coptic Christian man has been arrested near Cairo, Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam after a hacker posted material on his Facebook page, he and family [...]

By MEMRI – Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, said in a speech he delivered in honor of Laylat Al-Qadr that aired on Channel 1 TV (Egypt) on June 2, 2019 that Muslim scholars and [...]

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 [...]

وطني ـ الشهيد ابانوب ناجح احد شهداء الوطن في الحادث الارهابى الذي استهدف كمين 14 بسيناء ، أسرته تلقت صدمة كبيرة عند وصول أنباء استشهاده ، ولكن كانت تعزيتها انه شهيد لأجل الوطن، وتم استقباله [...]

By Marlo Safi – National Review – While attacks on Christians in Egypt such as bombings of churches by Islamists break into our news cycles in the U.S., smaller attacks often go [...]

For Immediate Release on PR Web (Washington, DC) June 13, 2019 Coptic Solidarity’s 10th Annual Conference will be hosted in Washington, D.C. on June 20-21, 2019 and will focus on Egypt’s Copts: [...]

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 [...]

الحره ـ أصدر المجلس الأعلى لتنظيم الإعلام في مصر عددا من الضوابط الخاصة بالبرامج التليفزيونية، “بهدف تحقيق المهنية”، حسب المجلس، لكن معارضين لتلك الإجراءات رأوا أنها تأتي في إطار [...]

وطني ـ كشف مصدر من مطرانية مغاغة والعدوة بالمنيا، أن الشرطة ألقت فجر الثلاثاء القبض على فادي يوسف المتهم بنشر بوست مسىء للإسلام، وهو ما فجر أحداث الأمس، بالاعتداء على الأقباط بقرية أشنين النصارى [...]

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.. [...]

وطني ـ  قام بعض «المتشددين» في المنيا، مساء (أمس) الاثنين، بالتعدي على بعض الأسر القبطية بقرية “أشنين النصاري” مركز مغاغة، ذات الأغلبية القبطية، بعد اتهام أحد أبنائها الأقباط بنشر “بوست” مسيء [...]

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 POMED – In his first interview since being released from prison, Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent Egyptian activist who served five years in jail for demonstrating against the draconian [...]

By Jared Keller – Task and Purpose – The Philadelphia chapter of a leading Muslim civil rights group is urging the U.S. Army War College to reconsider an upcoming lecture by an [...]

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 [...]

وطني ـ قامت الشرطة اليوم بالقبض على الفتاة القبطية التي أشهرت إسلامها “فرنسا عبد السيد” وزوجها  بقرية ”على باشا ” التابعة لقرية شوشه بسمالوط بالمنيا، بعد الأحداث التي وقعت أمس بالقرية عقب دخولها [...]

Morning Star News –  Days after Muslim leaders in Egypt came to his apartment to warn him to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian in Cairo received a death threat by phone last week, he [...]

خطاب مفعم بالحب والاحترام والتحية لجميع الأقباط حول العالم من الرئيس ترامب وزوجته ميلانيا لأحتفالهم لأول مرة ب ” يوم الأقباط العالمى”….وقد فعلت حسنا ابروشية جنوب أمريكا باختيار [...]

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 José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus.   Egypt, [...]

By Frank Gardner – BBC security correspondent- The Archbishop of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, has accused Britain’s Christian leaders of failing to do enough in defence of [...]

وطني ـ قضت المحكمة العسكرية المنعقدة بمحافظة أسيوط، بتخفيف الحبس بحق أحد المتهمين حضوريا من المؤبد 25 عاما إلى السجن 7 سنوات فى قضية اقتحام وحرق دير الأنبا ابرام الاثري بقرية دلجا بمركز ديرمواس [...]

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 Bryant Harris – Al-Monitor – After years of giving Egypt a pass on its human rights record, House lawmakers are starting to tighten the purse strings on Cairo. The foreign aid [...]

إنجي مجدي ـ إنديبندنت عربي ـ “الهجر” يحل أزمة آلاف القضايا في المحاكم… مصدر كنسي: هناك إشكالية حول المواريث والتبني… حقوقي: الزنا الحكمي يهدد السلم المجتمعي 11 عاماً من [...]

يوسف سيدهم ـ وطني ـ يا‏ ‏مسهل‏ … ‏فات‏ ‏القليل‏ … ‏ما‏ ‏بقي‏ ‏إلا‏ ‏الكتير‏ ! !‏ ملف‏ ‏تقنين‏ ‏أوضاع‏ ‏الكنائس‏ ‏القائمة‏ ‏وغير‏ ‏المرخصة‏ ‏من‏ ‏الملفات‏ ‏المهمة‏ ‏التي‏ ‏تتابعها‏ ‏وطني‏ [...]

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 AsiaNews – The High Lahore Court has acquitted two men accused of lynching and burning alive Shahzad and Shama Masih, a poor Christian couple they believed to be guilty of blasphemy. In 2016, [...]

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 [...]

أحمد مهدي ـ صدى البلد ـ أصدر الرئيس عبد الفتاح السيسي قرارا رقم 232 بالإعفاء عن العقوبة الأصلية أو ما تبقى منها وعن العقوبة التبعية المحكوم بها على 560 من المحكوم عليهم، وجاء بين المفرج عنهم [...]

By Asia News – Iraqi leaders and the powers-that-be must “put their political differences aside, and be the voice of moderation, national sovereignty and tolerance,” writes [...]

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 Gilgamesh Nabeel and Mina Nader – Religion News Service –  A Saudi billionaire whose father endowed a chair in comparative religion at the American University in Cairo has [...]

By Jérôme Tubiana – Foreign Policy – The interim vice president, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemeti” Dagolo, was in charge of the brutal janjaweed militias. Now he is calling the shots in Khartoum.   [...]

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 AINA — Four Assyrian children and one Assyrian woman were killed in a terrorist attack on the government controlled town of Suqaylabiyah, in the Hama province of Syria. The funeral [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Christian Newswire For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) May 13, 2019 Coptic Solidarity welcomes the White House announcement on April 30, 2019 of the [...]

By BBC- Gunmen have killed six people including a priest as Mass was being celebrated in a church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, officials say. The attackers, said to number between 20 and [...]

By John J. Metzler — WorldTribune- From the appalling murders of 300 Sri Lankan Christians celebrating Easter, to the killings of Coptic Egyptians, Syrian Christians, and Nigerian faithful, 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 Euan McKirdy and Sophia Saifi – CNN Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman freed from death row last year has arrived in Canada, according to her lawyer, Saif Ul Malook. Bibi, a mother [...]

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 [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute –  “In Iran, any practice that contradicts Islam is regarded as a national security threat, punished severely by the court system.” — [...]

بي بي سي ـ اقترب الاضطهاد الديني للمسيحيين من حد “الإبادة الجماعية” في أجزاء من العالم، وفقا لتقرير طلب إعداده جيريمي هنت، وزير الخارجية البريطاني. وأشار التقرير، الذي أعده أسقف كنيسة [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – Copts face increasing threats under a regime they once hoped would make them more secure.   MINYA, Egypt—Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority is facing a surge in [...]

وطني ـ تقدم كهنة كنيسة عزبة نجيب بمركز مطاى باوراق رسمية لمحافظ المنيا، للحصول على ترخيص باقامة الشعائر الدينية فى المبنى الكنسي الذي تم غلقه الاسبوع الماضى بعزبة نجيب بمطاى ، وتقنين وضع الكنيسة [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – White House says effort is ‘working its way through the internal process.’ The Trump administration is seeking to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign [...]

By Watani – The priests of the de-facto church in the Minya village of Ezbet Naguib in Matai, some 220km south of Cairo, have filed an application to Minya Governor asking for licence to [...]

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 [...]

USCIRF’s 2018 Report on Egypt: An Assessment by Coptic Solidarity (Washington, DC)  May 6, 2019 The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its annual report on [...]

By USCIRF –  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2019 Victims Database Also Announced Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released [...]

وطني ـ تواصل المباحث الجنائية بمركز مطاي التحقيق فى الحريق الذى شب فجر اليوم فى خيمة صلاة اعدت بمطرانية مطاى بعد هدم الكنيسة منذ عامًا لإعادة بنائها من جديد ، وقامت الشرطة برفع الأدلة الجنائية [...]

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, [...]

مدى مصر ـ «لو سمحنا لكل ناخب إنه يقرا الـ21 مادة ويقارن بينهم وبين المواد الحالية في الدستور ويفكر وبعدين يقول آه أو لأ هنبقى محتاجين أكثر من 15 يوم عشان نخلص الاستفتاء» – عضو بالهيئة الوطنية [...]

By Vivian Yee – The New York Times – The lone protester stood in an affluent corner of Egypt’s capital on Sunday, nearly an hour’s drive from the downtown square where tens of [...]

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 [...]

وطني ـ طالب الأمن الأقباط بمنطقة ميت نما التابعة لشبرا الخيمة بمحافظة القليوبية، بوقف صلاة البصخة في مبنى كنسي جديد تابع لمطرانية شبرا الخيمة، في الوقت نفسه قامت بعض العناصر بالمنطقة بالتحريض ضد [...]

By The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board – The killers may have taken their bloody cues from the attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday in 2017. The Easter Sunday slaughter [...]

By Vivian Yee – The New York Times — The message blared from social media videos, from banners too big to miss, and from the upbeat Election Day songs playing so boisterously on jumbo speakers [...]

By WSJ — A series of blasts tore through churches and international hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter morning, killing at least 207 people and wounding more than 450 in a coordinated series of [...]

by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The current violence, which has been getting worse since early 2017, “is slightly different, in that it is a series of targeted attacks on [...]

By ICC – This is a consequence of the fact that the Egyptian government is very slow to approve applications for the construction of new churches. All too often, Christians who go ahead [...]

د. جابر عصفورـ الأهرام ـ المؤكد أن أهم نتيجة سياسية لثورة 1919 كانت هى دستور 1923 بكل ما تضمَّنه من إيجابيات عظيمة وما احتواه من سلبيات قليلة. وقد كان هذا الدستور الذى صدر بقرارٍ ملكى من السلطان [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  Coptic Solidarity strongly condemns the closure of the Anba Karas building by the police in Sohag, Egypt on April 13, after Muslim mobs repeatedly protested in front [...]

EIPR condemns closure of the Naga al-Ghafir church in Sohag by security and documents closure of 22 churches since enactment of the church construction law; demands reopening of closed churches [...]

المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية – تدين قيام أجهزة الأمن بغلق كنيسة نجع الغفير بسوهاج وترصد غلق 22 كنيسة منذ تطبيق قانون بناء الكنائس… وتطالب بإعادة فتح الكنائس المغلقة وصدور قرار واحد [...]

أليتيا – مسلسل متكرر لا يختلف من سوى في المكان والزمان ، انتفاضة المتشددين ضد حق الأقباط في الصلاة ، أصبح ظاهرة تقوده مشاعر الكراهية والتطرف ، ظنا منهم ان القانون غائب غن محاسبتهم مثل [...]

By Watani – A building which doubles as a small church and community centre for the Coptic villagers of Naja Khalafallah Jaber in Sohag, some 500km south of Cairo, was closed by the police [...]

وطني ـ مسلسل متكرر، لا يختلف سوى في المكان والزمان: «إنتفاضة» المتشددين ضد حق الأقباط في الصلاة أصبح ظاهرة تقودها مشاعر الكراهية والتطرف، ظنا منهم أن القانون غائب عن محاسبتهم مثل الكثير من [...]

By Carl Anderson – Wall Street Journal – Iran-backed militias are keeping minority groups from returning home post-ISIS. Before visiting Iraq last month, I met with Pope Francis. He [...]

By Amr Eltohamy – Al-Monitor – Egypt’s Al-Azhar has had a significant presence abroad in recent years, especially in its efforts to counter the effects of the Islamic [...]

By Lord David Alton – Address by David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) at the Danube Institute Conference on Religious Freedom, April 9th 2019, The Reform Club, London.   In 1896, at the [...]

By Stephen McInerney and Amy Hawthorne – POMED –  Sisi’s supporters praise his religious tolerance. They shouldn’t. Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of one of [...]

By Office of US Congressman French Hill – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: April 9, 2019 Rep. Hill Calls on President Trump to Defend Coptic Christians in Meeting with Egyptian President el-Sisi [...]

by Uzay Bulut– Gatestone Institute – “When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, virtually all of the city’s surviving cathedrals and churches were — after [...]

By Yasmine El Rashidi – New York Times – The story of one activist is the story of Egypt: What went wrong after the 2011 revolution? We woke to the news last Friday: The 37-year-old [...]

By USCIRF – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned recent comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatening to convert the [...]

By Reuters – An Egyptian policeman found guilty of killing a Christian man and his son in a case that outraged the minority Coptic community was sentenced to death on Tuesday, judicial [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – On Sunday, March 17, the ruling court in Minya, Egypt, recused itself and stepped down from two ongoing cases concerning the [...]

د. عماد جاد نشهد عشرات الوقائع في المدارس الحكومية التي تمثل انتهاكا للقيم الإنسانسة، قيم المواطنة والمساواة، بل تجاوزا في حق الدولة الوطنية عبر رفض تحية العلم باعتياره في عرف الجماعة وفكرها، صنم [...]

By BBC- A prominent Egyptian activist has been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for organising an illegal protest, his family says. Alaa Abdel Fattah rose to prominence [...]

By Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institute – The only comment that keeps being repeated is the right of the ISIS terrorists to return to the West because they happen to be in possession [...]

By Emily Tamkin – Wshington Post –   On Monday, actors Amr Waked and Khaled Abol Naga spoke out against Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi at a Capitol Hill event in [...]

by Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institute – Qatari Islamic education [is] perhaps even more radical than the most concerned Western critics were assuming. — Based on the “Review [...]

By Magdi Khalil – Special for Coptic Solidarity As an institution, al-Azhar is considered one of the most important and largest Sunni institutions in all Islamic countries. It is an old [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim –  Gatestone Institute – If convicted, Stephen Masih could face the death penalty. “[I]nstead of protecting the teenager from his attackers, [police] arrested [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – On 10 March, Egypt’s Prime Minister issued decision number 10 for Year 2019, legalising the status of 165 unlicensed churches and church-affiliated [...]

By Tarek Heggy – The tree of terrorism is like any other tree. It is comprised of roots, a trunk and branches. The roots are Salafism, represented in the writings of the Hanbali scholars [...]

‏يوسف‏ ‏سيدهم ـ وطني ـ في‏ 10 ‏مارس‏ ‏الجاري‏ ‏صدر‏ ‏قرار‏ ‏رئيس‏ ‏مجلس‏ ‏الوزراء‏ ‏رقم‏ 10 ‏لسنة‏ 2019 ‏بتقنين‏ ‏أوضاع‏ ‏المجموعة‏ ‏السادسة‏ ‏في‏ ‏مسلسل‏ ‏عمل‏ ‏لجنة‏ ‏توفيق‏ ‏أوضاع‏ ‏الكنائس‏ [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2019) – Book review of: Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North, By William R. Polk, [...]

By POMED – On March 19, the Egyptian government put into effect new media regulations that allow the Supreme Media Regulatory Council without obtaining a court order to block and fine [...]

By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post – Church leaders in Nigeria have said that Christians are experiencing “pure genocide” as 6,000 people, mostly women and children, have been [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  As the Syrian civil war enters what might be its last year, Christians are trying to rebuild in the face of an uncertain future. The conflict, which grew out of [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2018) – Review of  “Shariah Law: What Everyone Needs to Know”. By John L. Esposito and Natana J. Delong-Bas. Oxford: [...]

By WorldTribune – In the wake of the horrific shootings at two New Zealand mosques, Christian media outlets and a UN-recognized human rights group have pointed to the lack of interest from [...]

نادر شكري ـ وطني ـ إيهاب رمزي: لم تحدد المحكمة اسباب التنحى عن قضية سيدة الكرم وحرق منازل دلجا وهو أمر مثير. قضية مقتل قبطي دلجا اسكندر طوس وحرق منازل دلجا تدخل فى السنه السادسة دون حسم. تنحت [...]

By: The Guardian – Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, has been handed a new sentence that her husband said was 38 years in prison and 148 [...]

By Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor – State Department – Executive Summary According to its constitution, Egypt is a republic governed by an elected president and [...]

By FoRB in full –  A Blog by Christian Solidarity Worldwide –  In November 2018, seven Coptic Christians were killed and 18 injured when terrorists attacked the bus they were [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for CS – An Arabic-language video recently appeared of a Muslim cleric in Egypt addressing how terrorists misuse Islamic scriptures to justifying killing [...]

د. مراد وهبه ـ الأهرام ـ هل النخبة القبطية إخوانية؟ . سؤال يبدو مثيرا للسخرية، إذ كيف يمكن أن يكون ذلك كذلك؟ أى كيف يمكن أن يكون قبطيا إخوانيا؟ السؤال ورد إلى ذهنى بعد أن قرأت كتابا عنوانه [...]

د. وحيد عبدالمجيد ـ الأهرام ـ ألهمت ثورة 1919 الزعيم الهندى المهاتما غاندى، وأسهمت فى تعزيز اقتناعه بأهمية توحيد الهندوس والمسلمين فى مواجهة الاحتلال. كانت الحركة الوطنية الهندية فى بدايتها عندما [...]

By Ramy Aziz -Middle East Quarterly (Spring 2019) – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in July 2013 through a military coup, supported by many sectors of Egyptian society that wanted to rid [...]

الأهرام الكندي ـ ما سنسرده لكم ليس فيلماً أو مسلسلاً درامياً أنما واقع مؤلم عاشته أسر مسيحية بقرية المشابك وكوم السيد بمدينة نجع حمادى بمحافظة قنا بصعيد مصر ، والسبب قصة جمعت بين فتاة مسيحية قاصر [...]

With Magdi Khalil مع مجدي خليل      

​هويدا طه ـ​ في نقاشات كثيرة خضتها مع عدد من الأصدقاء، كان محور النقاش هو: علمنة مصر أولاً أم دمقرطة مصر أولاً؟ اختلفنا في الأولوية، واختلفنا كذلك في تعريفات المفاهيم​.​ ​ـ ​وجهة نظرهم: [...]

The following document, an email from Hillary R. Clinton (forwarding an email she’d received) , dating back to Nov. 2011, describes some interesting behind-the-scene interactions between [...]

نادر شكري ـ أقباط متحدون ـ في الوقت الذي تواصل فيه لجنة تقنين الكنائس التابعة لمجلس الوزراء عملها في تقنين الكنائس والمبان التابعة لها ، طبقا لقانون بناء الكنائس ، والإعلان اليوم عن تقنين 156 [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Salemo is literal for “Live peaceably” or “Be at peace”. The command was given by Jesus Christ Himself, as cited in the Gospel of St Mark 9: 50 “Be at [...]

وطني ـ فوجئ أهالي عزبة على باشا التابعة لقرية شوشة مركز سمالوط ، بالمنيا، بتزايد قوات الأمن داخل القرية، وانتشاره على مداخل ومخارج القرية، رغم تواجده منذ ظهور أزمة احتفال القرية بأنباء عودة فتاة [...]

By Christopher Gurguis – Opinion article contributed by Coptic Solidarity supporter.  We should congratulate Rami Malek on winning the first Oscar for the Copts. Whether he is aware of it [...]

د. خالد منتصر ـ كتبت هذا المقال منذ أكثر من سنة وإستجابت الوزارة وحذفت بعض الكلمات لكن مازالت القصة مقررة !!، نفس أسلوب حذف العبارات من كتب الأزهر إستجابة للإحتجاجات وراحة للدماغ وليس إقتناعاً [...]

وطني ـ قصة مؤلمة تكشف مدى الظلم والمعاناة التي عاشها الأقباط منذ سنوات طويلة، والأحكام الجائرة التي صدرت في عهد الحكم البائد في زمن الرئيس مبارك، عندما حكم بالسجن المؤبد بالإشغال الشاقة على 6 [...]

By Michael Wahid Hanna – Financial Times – The vote on a plan to extend the Sisi presidency is an opportunity to voice dissent. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stated unequivocally in 2017 that “it [...]

برنامج عرضته قناة «بي بي سي عربي» هذا الأسبوع، يُبين تاريخ المسيحيين من الاشوريين والكلدان والسريان منذ بدايات القرن العشرين ولغاية يومنا هذا مصوراً بالوثائق اعتداءات الأكراد والدواعش المسلمين [...]