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By World Watch Monitor – A Coptic Christian from Beni Suef governorate in Egypt saw his wheat fields set on fire, just four days after he was accused of planning to turn his house into a [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 21-22, 2018 will focus on Egypt’s Copts: Faces of Persecution.  This leading policy event [...]

مجدى خليل يعانى الأقباط فى مصر من تمييزا دينيا حكوميا ومجتمعيا واسعا وشاملا وممتدا ومنظما وعميقا فى كافة مناحى الحياة بما فى ذلك النشاط الرياضى وكرة القدم، وعلى مدى نصف قرن لم يشارك سوى 6 أقباط [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) June 18, 2018 Yesterday, Coptic Solidarity submitted a report directly to FIFA officials as well as on their new online [...]

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 [...]