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By Magdi Khalil for Coptic Solidarity – June 15, 2018 This report has been sent to the FIFA officials directly, and submitted online via the new FIFA complaint mechanism. Download Full [...]

By Maryse Godden – New Statesman – The impact of years of heightened religious tension between Copts and Muslims is evident even from Egypt’s national football team. When cafes across [...]

By WorldWatch Monitor –  In one of three incidents reported to World Watch Monitor, an Egyptian photographer was detained by police for carrying a bottle of water during the Muslim holy [...]

By Dr. Henry Srebrnik – Summerside Journal-Pioneer, June 11, 2018, p. A4 – The Copts of Egypt are over 10 million strong and have lived in the country as Christians for two millennia. [...]

By Magdi Khalil – In order to make matters well -defined and clear and to avoid confusion, we state that there is an Egyptian cause and a Coptic cause. For there are causes that concern all [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  On May 2018, the State Department issued its annual report on International Religious Freedom, which documents the state of religious freedom in 200 [...]

By Watani –  A church in the village of al-Shuqaf in Housh Eissa in the west Delta province of Beheira was attacked by a mob of Muslim hardliners on Saturday 26 May. The mob also pelted the [...]

By Girgis Waheeb – Watani –  The State Security Court has handed the nine Copts and 11 Muslims from the village of Meinin, who were charged of mobbing, fighting and possession of [...]

By World Watch Monitor – A Coptic Christian soldier reported to have died by accident ten days ago was in fact killed, his family say. The family of 22-year-old Mikhail Farhat Saad Tamer [...]

By World Watch Monitor – At least seven Coptic Christian women and girls disappeared in Egypt last month, in what is becoming a recurring phenomenon. In each case, the family of the woman [...]