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By Morning Star News Officials in Sudan have shown signs of increasing religious freedom, but Christians say roadblocks remain to constructing churches and regaining confiscated properties since [...]

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 NPR – Morning Edition In the Egyptian province with the biggest percentage of Christians, the government has refused to grant permits for churches. Tens of thousands of people have [...]

By Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm The main committee for the legalization of churches in Egypt approved on Monday the legalization of 80 churches and affiliate [...]

By Egyptian Streets –  A committee headed by Prime Minister and Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved the legalization of 168 churches and buildings on Friday. The committee officially [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  Mob rule has stopped hundreds of Christians in a village in Upper Egypt building their first church, World Watch Monitor has learned from local Copts. The nearest [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Either there is a deliberate intention to drag Egypt into a series of problems that concern churches and the right of Copts to worship; or there is [...]

By Abdelrahman Eyad –  Al-Monitor – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a law on the construction and restoration of churches on Sept. 28, nearly a month after it had [...]

By EIPR – The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights expresses its deep concern about the House of Representatives’ rushed approval of the law regulating the construction and renovation of [...]

Le Monde – L’Egypte a voté pour la première fois, mardi 30 août, une loi sur la construction et la rénovation des églises, controversée au sein de la communauté chrétienne. Le Parlement a [...]