Acquittal in assault of Christian woman casts pall over Christmas for Egypt’s Coptic community
By Shahara Amin– Al-Monitor – A controversial court ruling acquitting three defendants — a father and his two sons — who had stripped naked and [...]
88 unlicensed churches, service buildings granted legal status
By Egypt Today – Eight-eight unlicensed churches and affiliated service buildings have been granted approval to legalize their status. The committee in charge of legalizing the status of [...]
Egyptian Government’s Claims of Improved Situation for Copts Refuted by Ongoing Discrimination
By Coptic Solidarity – PRNeswire -Washington, DC, August 19, 2017 Both the Egyptian government and some church leaders are claiming that the Copts’ situation has improved under President [...]
A statement by the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Minya, Egypt, on Worship Rights
By Minya Diocese – Security refuses to open a church shut down in Kedwan in deference to sentiments of extremists! This is to comment on what has been published on social media concerning [...]
Coptic Solidarity Urges Egypt’s New Law Regulating Construction of Churches to Break Away from the Historical Conditions of Dhimmitude
By Coptic Solidarity – (Washington, DC) August 4, 2016 The 2014 Egyptian Constitution includes a provision stating that the Parliament was to pass a bill in its first legislative session [...]
Egypt Must Pass Church Building Law That Breaks Conditions of Servitude
By Coptic Solidarity – The 2014 Egyptian Constitution includes various aspirational guarantees of equality of citizenship for all Egyptians. Included in the Constitution is a specific [...]
EIPR warns of increasing sectarian attacks in Minya governorate and urges state institutions to enforce the law and initiate social dialogue on the church construction law
By EIPR – The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights is extremely concerned with the increasing frequency of sectarian violence in the Minya governorate, which has been the scene of [...]
Egypt Parliament to discuss easing restrictions on church building
By World Watch Monitor – Once again the Egyptian Parliament is considering a proposal on the construction of churches that Christians hope will narrow the country’s religious inequality [...]
