By Thomas Farr- WSJ – By pushing faith to the margins, the U.S. undermines its moral leadership abroad. Americans have never agreed that one religion is true and good, but we’ve [...]
By J.B. Shurk – Gatestone Institute – When presidents and prime ministers make and enforce their own laws under the pretext of “emergency powers,” then citizens should not be [...]
By Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egyptians were shocked last month by the brutal stabbing murder of a college student, Naira Ashraf, in front of Mansoura University’s gates. The [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “Muhammad Irfan came to my shop for wheel balancing for his motorbike. I balanced the wheel and demanded my amount of labour as [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Last May 29, 2022 in Istanbul and other cities in Turkey, elaborate celebrations were held to commemorate the 569th anniversary of the Islamic conquest of [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – I have taken it upon myself to never give up on calling for reform of Egyptian legislation so as to achieve equality between men and women in inheritance. [...]
by Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – Today the Islamic Republic of Iran is the only standard-bearer of true Muhammadan Islam. (..) Other nations need not convert to Islam to benefit [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – Turkey is now using the distraction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a cover to increase its likelihood of officially annexing [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – Islamism and nationalism in Turkey combine in an even more ambitious form. Where does “the East” begin? The question is as much political as [...]
By Knox Thames – RNS — The power of these summits is in bringing together all stakeholders around advancing religious freedom. Nigerian Christians murdered during worship. China [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim Where is the outcry? When an Australian, Brenton Tarrant, attacked two mosques and killed 51 Muslims in 2019 in New Zealand, the world stood in condemnation; the [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The United Nations recently named March 15 as “international day to combat Islamophobia.” That date was chosen because it witnessed one of the worst terror attacks on [...]
By Agnès Callamard and Kenneth Roth – Foreign Affairs – For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern region [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Once again, a large governmental body has exposed itself as morally bankrupt if not wholly bereft of legitimacy. On May 18, 2022, the European Parliament, one of [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – On Thursday, a Muslim mob beat and burned to death a female Christian student in Nigeria. She was apparently accused of “blasphemy.” A brief video clip shows a massive [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The American Thinker – On April 24, the grand imam of Islam’s most prestigious institution, Al Azhar, delivered an address before the heads of [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Day by day, it seems that the ruling class and their media mouthpiece are dedicated to one principle: find problems where none exist and ignore real problems that are [...]
By Ellis Heasley – SightMag Australia- On 7th April Fr Arsanious Wadid, a Coptic Orthodox priest based in Alexandria, Egypt, was carrying out youth work on a seaside promenade in his home city [...]
By Farah Rafik – Egyptian Streets- It’s 2010: armed men exchange gunfire, rocks and Molotov cocktails are tossed, and deafening silence inhabits our household when my teary-eyed mother says, [...]
By David Isaac – JNS – The West is missing a critical component of the story when it comes to the persecution of Middle East Christians, said Farhad Rezaei, a visiting lecturer at [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – It’s official: The United Nations, following the Muslim world’s lead, has formally accepted the concept of “Islamophobia,” a move that will undoubtedly [...]
Marina Samir – Rowaq CIHRS – Abstract : This paper raises questions about the extent to which the demand for a uniform civil personal status law, as advocated by progressive forces in [...]
By Ezzedine C. Fishere – The Washington Post – In February, Egypt’s attorney general decided to investigate the writer and talk show host Ibrahim Eissa over his questioning [...]
By David Isaac – JNS – According to York University’s Farhad Rezaei, what distinguishes Iran when it comes to persecution of Christians is that it is pursuing a “strategy of [...]
By Magdi Abdelhadi – Newsline Magazine – The dilemma facing Egyptians as they look to the past for a new sense of national identity. Pick up any Egyptian banknote, look at both sides [...]
By Yezid Sayigh – Carnegie Middle East Center – For Egypt to deliver on its economic projects, the tentacles of military retirees in the state bureaucracy must be cut. Egyptian President [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Providence – Azerbaijan’s government has announced that it intends to erase Armenian inscriptions on religious sites in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic, which [...]
By Elisabetta Brighi – Open Democracy – In 25 January 2016, Giulio Regeni, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, disappeared while carrying out field work in [...]
By TIMEP – Egypt’s legal framework is an important angle through which to understand the state of religious minorities in the country. This brief delves into some of the primary issues [...]
Reviewed by Daniel Pipes – Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World – by Christian C. Sahner – Princeton: Princeton University Press, [...]
by Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promises to launch “a new republic” this year, led by a development boom and a new commitment to [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On November 17, 2021, the U.S. State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern…. despite several [...]
By Mina Thabet – TIMEP – In November 2019, I was able to communicate with my friend Ramy Kamel, a prominent Coptic activist and blogger, for the last time before his arrest and [...]
By Dioscorus Boles – On the 6th January 2022, the YouTube channel, Coptic Orthodox Church, published an 8-minute massage by Pope Tawadros II, titled Papal Message, Christmas 2022, [...]
By Dioscorus Boles – Last night, I watched, like millions of Copts from across the world, the Liturgy of Holy Nativity that was broadcast from the Cathedral of the Holy Nativity of Christ [...]
By The Washington Post Editorial Board – Egypt issued its national “human rights strategy” in September to mixed reviews. A hopeful few regarded the measure as a positive [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – MEF – Despite Facebook’s zeal at censoring so-called “hate speech” and “offensive content,” violent, radical, and murderous content [...]
By Laila Soueif – The New York Times – Standing outside the Tora prison complex, where my son is held, a mother asks me: What’s your son in for? “Politics,” I say. She [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – My readers will find a large portion of this article similar to, if not an outright repetition of what I wrote before on the legalisation of unlicensed [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, “An Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the [...]
By Samuel Tadros – Hoover Institute – In his seminal essay, The Sorrows of Egypt, the late Fouad Ajami, noted, in his masterful prose, the numerous sorrows of modern Egypt, from the [...]
By CIHRS – The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) asserts that the recent amendments ratified this month by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aim to entrench a permanent state of [...]
By Anne-Christine Hoff – Middle East Quarterly – On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s famous [...]
By Daniel Pipes – Washington Times – The Islamist movement, which seeks to apply medieval Islamic laws and build a worldwide caliphate, has expanded massively in the past half-century. But it now [...]
By CIHRS – Analysis of the National Strategy for Human Rights The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released this morning a brief analysis of the National Strategy for Human [...]
By The Washington Post – Editorial Board – During his campaign for the White House, President Biden promised to restore human rights to “the center” of U.S. foreign policy — in [...]
BY Miray Philips – When Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), died on September 21, 2021, the Coptic Orthodox Church [...]
By Maged Mandour – Carnegie – Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands, by creating a top-down version of state sponsored [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez* – MEMRI Imagine living a public life involving writing and speaking on sensitive issues and constantly having to look over your shoulder, wondering if you have gone [...]
Youssef Sidhom – Watani – The lack of any sense of time in case of urgency seems to be among the list of idiosyncratic traits vintage to our beloved Egypt. Many were the real life [...]
By Peter Tadros – ACM- It was 9 October 2011, and an unprecedented event had just occurred in Egypt. I recall checking my social media accounts and seeing a sea of blood on my Facebook wall [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “The State Department has blocked us every step of the way. The State Department and the White House have [...]
By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies ـ Respect for human rights in Egypt – where the most fundamental rights to life, bodily integrity, and justice are violated by state institutions and [...]
By Tawfik Hamid – WSJ – The West needs a better system for identifying radical Islamists and cutting out the religious underpinnings of jihad. Twenty years ago, 19 of my fellow Arab [...]
Florian Ripka-ACNRepublished by Aleteia It was 10 years ago, but the pain is still raw. On the night of Friday, January 31, 2011, a terrorist attack killed 21 people and wounded 79 others [...]
By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – More importantly, perhaps, it may be naïve to demand that Taliban give up terrorism — the very method that has given them some [...]
By Anne-Christine Hoffb – Middle East Quarterly – On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s [...]
By Lauretta Brown – National Catholic Register – As the last of the U.S. troops left Afghanistan Monday and the Taliban has taken control, many fear for the religious minorities in [...]
By Amir Taheri – Gatestone Institute – The immediate question everyone faces is whether or not to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government. To start with, the current [...]
By Joel Beinin, Allison McManus – Jacobin – In the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make an important Middle East policy decision that will illuminate the Biden [...]
By Mai el-Sadany, Yasmin Omar – Carnegie Endowment – New amendments to the law governing Egypt’s highest court are the latest in a series of steps intended to eat away at the international [...]
By Malala Yousafzai – The New York Times – Ms. Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, is an activist for girls’ education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate. [...]
By Hakan Topal – Hyperallergic – I recently visited the Hagia Sophia for the first time after its conversion and felt overwhelming sadness. On the occasion of the 2003 Istanbul [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – After the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and military and the victory of the Taliban, some experts have warned of the danger of a failed [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – A Muslim father-of-four abducted a 13-year-old Christian girl, forced her to convert to Islam, and then “married” her. According to the father of Nayab Gill, when the [...]
By Daniel Pipes – National Interest – “More Muslims have come to faith in Jesus Christ over the last thirty years—and specifically over the last seven to ten years—than at any [...]
By Timothy E. Kaldas – TIMEP – Egypt is in the process of building the largest parliamentary building in the Middle East in its New Administrative Capital. Last year [...]
By Steven Howard – Providence – In today’s hyperpolarized environment, Beltway commentators and even think-tank scholars seem unable to resist the temptation to put a partisan twist [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – All throughout sub-Saharan Africa — in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo — Muslims are terrorizing and [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Conquering Christians and turning their churches into mosques seems to be very much on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mind these days. Last Friday, June [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Last summer, Turkish authorities transformed Hagia Sophia (“Holy Wisdom”) — which was originally built, and for a millennium functioned, as one of Christendom’s [...]
BY Michael Wahid Hanna – WPR – In recent weeks, Egypt has released a handful of high-profile political prisoners, including three journalists, Khaled Dawoud, Solafa Magdy [...]
By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal [...]
By Saba E. Demian, M.D. – I have written an article with this title some fifteen years ago which was published in the Coptic Assembly of America (CAA) newsletter. This is a second call to [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000…. denial of the [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – In a video released last Saturday, April 17, Muslims connected to the Islamic State executed a Coptic Christian man in Sinai, Egypt. The slain was identified as [...]
By Saba E. Demian, M.D. ـ The writing is on the wall. All can read it but none heed it. The sad and dismal plight of the Copts of Egypt is well documented from the time of the Islamic invasion of [...]
By Ariane Lavrilleux – The Africa Report With Donald Trump gone, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has lost a powerful ally in Washington. US lobbyists are trying to improve his [...]
Par Ariane Lavrilleux – The Africa Report Donald Trump parti, le maréchal Sissi a perdu un allié de poids à Washington. Des lobbyistes américains tentent de redorer l’image de son [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Hate-filled indoctrination and training in violence is not limited to the “schools” of ISIS or Boko Haram. Public schools all [...]
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – While many states in the Middle East and North Africa seem trapped in a death spiral of despair, the 2019 overthrow of Sudan’s Islamist dictator Omar [...]
By The NationalNews – Will the new US president be tough on an old ally or is it business as usual – what the first weeks of Mr Biden’s presidency tell us about his view of Cairo. In the short [...]
By The Wall Street Journal – Pope Francis made history this week when he became the first pope to visit Iraq, a risky trip amid heightened security risks and surging coronavirus infections. [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – New evidence linking Turkish president Erdogan to Islamic terrorists has just emerged. Osman Nuri Kabaktepe, a longtime friend and colleague of Erdogan, who was [...]
By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – CAIRO — The Biden administration is struggling to reconcile two inescapable truths about Egypt: It’s an important friend and ally of the United [...]
By Lord Alton of Liverpool – Independent Catholic News Lord Alton gave the following reflection at the Coptic Commemorative Meeting today. It is an honour to join you for this day of [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – “[T]he killing, rape and forced conversion of Christian girls have become an everyday matter and the government has denied this and [...]
by Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Ten years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old produce vendor, self-immolated to protest harassment from Tunisian government officials. His [...]
By Shahira Amin – Al-Monitor- It has been 10 years since the 2011 revolution brought down the Mubarak regime, but the pro-democracy activists who led the uprising say repressive policies [...]
by Tawfik Hamid – Gatestone Institute – Al-Azhar, the most respected Islamic university and organization in the Sunni world, is not – by their own definition – a terrorist [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Pakistan Christian Post The most recent escalation of violence against Egyptian Copts living in Egypt occurred last month (November 2020) and was sparked by Facebook [...]
By Florian Ripka-ACN via Aleteia – Ten years ago, Kiro Khalil survived an attack on Christians that killed three members of his family. Ten years ago on New Year’s Eve, the life of Coptic [...]
By Knox Thames- RNS — The birthplace of Christianity may soon be uninhabitable for its believers without reforms to help them survive. Days before the start of Advent, mobs in a city 200 miles [...]
By Wall Street Journal (*) – When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master [...]
By Knox Thames – The Christian Post – While the COVID pandemic grabs headlines, there is a pandemic of persecution impacting billions of people around the world. People face daily [...]
By MEMRI – ” Muslims Must Give Their Souls In Defense Of The Prophet; Islam Commands Us To Love Muhammad And Jihad More Than Our Own Families.” Reactions in the Muslim world to [...]
By Fr. Mettias Nasr – Editor’s note: This article, written by the now-retired prominent priest of a poor suburb of Cairo, was initially published in 2012. I have noticed through the [...]
By Hussein Ibish – Bloomberg – But the release of three rights campaigners is a reassuring sign that international pressure works.. After a major international outcry, [...]
By Alaa Bilal The impunity of the Egyptian regime, Europe’s “indispensable” partner in fighting illegal migration and counter-terrorism measures, continues to shock and brutalize. Europe’s [...]
Par Joseph Yacoub – Le Figaro – Les chrétiens représentaient encore 20 % de la population turque au début du XXe siècle: ils ne sont plus que 0,2 % aujourd’hui. Comment le régime turc [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Muslims everywhere—from the heads of the most prestigious institutions, such as Egypt’s Al Azhar, to the common rank and file—are calling for the international [...]
By Khaled Abu Toameh – Gatestone Institute – The labeled terrorist organization [Muslim Brotherhood] said, with a straight face, that it “wishes Mr. Biden, the American people, [...]
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Voice of the Copts A few days ago news reports stated that you called a meeting of the Muslim Council of Elders in Cairo in order to plot a legal response against [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – American Thinker One of the benefits of Adel Guindy’s new book, A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, is that it implicitly [...]
By Youssef Sidhom – Watani Earlier this month, representatives of the three main Churches in Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox, Coptic Catholic, and the Evangelical handed to the Cabinet the final [...]
By Laurent Dubreuil – WSJ – Samuel Paty’s jihadist murderer targeted the victim based on social media outrage and lies. Samuel Paty wanted to teach his students a lesson about free speech. [...]
By Saba E. Demian, M.D. Written in 2015 Open wide ye gates of heaven Ascend they on the Savior’s cross The laurels await to be given A gain of glory not a loss Their blood shed, stained the sand [...]
Opinion submitted by Saba E. Demian, M.D This is part of the suppression/oppression by the State and cronies to cancel Christianity from Egypt. The most popular game in the world is Football, aka [...]
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Wall Street Journal – Adherents of both pursue ideological purity, refuse to engage in debate and demand submission. There were many American heroes on 9/11, but [...]
By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – In Nigeria, over the past 20 years, 100,000 Christians have been killed…. Nigeria is becoming the “biggest killing ground of [...]
By Elisa Massimino and Neil Hicks – The Washington Post In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sissi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest human [...]
By Gary C. Gambill – Middle East Forum “Raymond Ibrahim on the Bottom-Up Oppression of Egypt’s Christians,” a summary of my recent Middle East Forum webinar by Gary C. Gambill, [...]
By Lord David Alton of Liverpool – With Egypt’s Copts targeted as part of a bloody and systematic campaign of genocide against the ancient churches of the Middle East, Adel Guindy has [...]
by Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Earlier this year… [Boko Haram] released a video of a masked Muslim child holding a pistol behind a bound and kneeling Christian [...]
By Alexander Maistrovoy – World Tribune – Arabs, Turks and Africans must kneel begging the Europeans to forgive them for their atrocities in the very recent past. In late June, [...]
By Saba E. Demian, M.D. Sword over the Nile is as much a reference as it is a book. It is amply annotated, referenced, cross-referenced, as any historical document need be. This scientific [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – The American Thinker – February 2015 was the first time many in the West had heard of the Copts, Egypt’s indigenous, Christian inhabitants. Then the [...]
By Mona Seif – AccessNowPublished July 27, 2020 | 6:33 AM This is an open letter from me asking for your solidarity and support. It is long, bear with me please. My name is Mona Seif, [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Millions of Orthodox and other Christians around the world were either shocked, angered, and/or saddened to learn recently that Turkey has just approved the [...]
By Paul Marshall – Providence – As many expected and feared, the magnificent church of Justinian I, the Hagia Sophia, will again be converted to a mosque. On July 10, Turkey’s Council [...]
By Bruce Thornton – FrontPageMagazine – We may think we’re exhibiting high-minded principles, but our enemies know the score. Last week Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [...]
By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass [...]
By Ola Salem – Foreign Policy – The government tried to bury evidence of a national outbreak—until Egyptians forced it to confess. Egypt originally seemed to have evaded a severe [...]
by Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – For the intersectional activists, the US is the world’s biggest oppressor — not China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or Iran. [...]
By Johnnie Moore and Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir – Newsweek – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated his desire to convert Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque in late May, a [...]
By Hesham Shehab and Benjamin Baird – MEF – Islamists are exploiting the Black Lives Matter movement to bring attention to their anti-Israel agenda. Yet, many of these same pro-Palestinian [...]
By Kevin Clarke – AmericanMagazine – Are Nigeria’s Christians the target of a genocide? That is the conclusion of a number of religious freedom analysts and Nigerian clergy who joined [...]
by Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – In Turkish jargon, the difference is simple: It is “conquest” when we do it and “invasion” when others do it. In this [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On May 30, 2020 — two days before President Trump congratulated Copts around the world — Egyptian authorities demolished the village of Koum [...]
By Nina Shea – WSJ – A new executive order puts the neglected issue at the heart of U.S. foreign policy. For decades religious freedom has been treated as the unwanted stepchild in [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – Islamic terror attacks that target Christians in Turkey are not uncommon. Around Christmas of 2011, a large-scale al-Qaeda plot to bomb [...]
By Neil Hicks, Senior Director for Advocacy – Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – Editors Note: The response below was submitted to Coptic Solidarity as a rebuttal to a [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – Two themes permeate much of the discourse surrounding ongoing riots: that racism in America, particularly against blacks, is “systemic”; and that any show of force [...]
By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – According to the Koran and the recorded sayings (hadith) and biographies (sira) of Islam’s founder, “To leave Islam, to insult [...]
By Samuel Tadros – As rare as it may be for an article in an anthropology website to ignite fierce debates within the Coptic community, a piece by Candace Lukasik, a PhD candidate at the [...]
By Samuel Tadros – The Washington Post – A few days ago, a revealing WhatsApp message popped up on my iPhone: “Egypt is defeating the conspiracy and saving the world.” The text that [...]
By Raymond Ibrahim – April 24 marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians and Greeks—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, [...]
By Brandon Jetter – AINA/theaggie.org – Through a deliberate decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing, Turkey eradicated its minority communities and denied their history. Now it’s [...]
By Mina Abdelmalak –Reprinted from RealClearReligion – As the world struggles to fight back against the coronavirus pandemic, governments across the globe are searching for ways to [...]
By Giles Fraser – UnHerd– The UK government still refuses to use the word ‘genocide’ about the systematic massacre of Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish [...]
By Fionn Shiner – Aid to the Church in Need – More than three years on from the defeat of Daesh (ISIS), Islamists in Iraq are as determined as ever to rid their towns and cities of [...]
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 Al-Monitor – About 80 members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad were released from an Egyptian jail on Oct. 17. Some had been detained without trial, and others had been sentenced by a Cairo [...]
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 [...]
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 and [...]
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 MEMRI– On Friday, September 20, 2019, citizens took to the streets in several Egyptian cities to demand the ouster of President ‘Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi. Apparently, the immediate [...]
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 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 [...]
