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 Bishoy Sadek – Egyptian Streets “You should change your name” or “will call you back” have reportedly been the typical answers junior Coptic footballers receive when attempting to secure [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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 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, [...]

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

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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Emma Green – The Atlantic –  The call came in 2014, shortly after Easter. Four years earlier, Catrin Almako’s family had applied for special visas to the United States. Catrin’s [...]

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 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 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 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, [...]

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

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 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 [...]

By International Christian Concern – 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, [...]

By Egyptian Initiatie for Personal Rights – EIPR condemns closure of the Naga al-Ghafir church in Sohag by security and documents closure of 22 churches since enactment of the church [...]

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 age [...]

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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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.” — Mohsen [...]

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 Christopher White – The Tablet – Four years ago this week, 21 men were videotaped on a beach in Libya as their ISIS captors beheaded them one by one. Of the 21 victims, 20 were [...]

By 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 [...]

By Coptic Orthodox Archbishopric Diocese of Minya & Abo-Qorqas – Translation by Coptic Solidarity We remained silent since the infringements that took place midday today; Friday, [...]

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 International Christian Concern – President al-Sisi Opens Cathedral in the Desert, but Closes Churches in Populous Upper Egypt. International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that [...]

By Jared Malsin and Courtney McBride – Wall Street Journal – Speaking in Cairo, secretary of state casts the Islamic Republic as the Trump administration’s top concern in the region while [...]

By Julia A. Seymour – World – Ahead of the Egyptian Coptic Christians’ Christmas celebration on Monday, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the formation of a committee to [...]

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. [...]

By International Christian Concern – On December 22, 2018, an appeals court in Upper Egypt upheld a three-year prison sentence against Coptic Christian Abd Adel Bebawy. This disappointing [...]

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 [...]

By Lela Gilbert – Hudson Institute – Egypt’s Christian community faces dangers that most other Egyptians needn’t fear. Threats of violence during church services, attacks on buses [...]

By 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, [...]