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Coptic Solidarity Analysis and Recommendations on Newly Released Egypt Chapter of State Department International Religious Freedom Report

By Coptic Solidarity – August 20, 2017 On August 15, 2017, the State Department issued its annual report on International Religious Freedom, which documents the state of religious freedom [...]

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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 [...]

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Egypt’s Copts Say They’re Tired of Being ‘Martyrs’ As Deadly Attacks Continue

By Jay Gotera – The Christian Post -The streams of blood from defenseless Copts massacred by Islamist extremists continue to drench Egypt—with no end in sight. Three more Coptic were found [...]

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Terrorist threat forces Egyptian Christians to cancel summer activities

By Jayson Casper – World Watch Monitor The churches of Egypt are temporarily shutting down their summer activities. “I asked all our churches and conference centres to cancel their trips [...]

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Coptic martyrdom in the age of the security state

By Mariam Ibrahim – Mada Masr – Is a religious narrative that frames the killing of Copts as God’s will at odds with mounting resistance to sectarian attacks? “We never dreamed [...]

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Murder of fifth Copt in six weeks creating ‘state of fear and terror’ among Egypt’s Christians

By World Watch Monitor – A fifth Copt has been murdered in Egypt in six weeks, aggravating fears among Christians that Islamist extremists are targeting them with impunity. Nadra Mounir, [...]

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The Copts in Sisi’s Egypt: Between rhetoric and reality

By Dr. George Gurguis, MD – President, Coptic Solidarity – The decent into chaos that Egypt was heading for under the Muslim Brotherhood rule and President Morsi was averted by [...]

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Coptic Christians Targeted By ISIS Say Egyptian Government Not Helping

By Stoyan Zaimov – Christian Post (via AINA) – Coptic Christian families from North Sinai in Egypt, who have been displaced following numerous attacks by the Islamic State terror [...]

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Sinai: eighth El-Arish Copt killed in targeted attack

By WorldWatch Monitor –  Nabil Saber Ayoub Mansour became the eighth Egyptian Coptic Christian to be murdered in El-Arish, northern Sinai, this year in what appear to be linked killings. He [...]

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Islamists shoot dead Arish Copt who returned home

By Nader Shukry – Watani International –  The Copt Nabil Saber Fawzy, 40, who was among the Copts who had fled the North Sinai town of al-Arish last February, went back home less than [...]