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By Middle East Monitor – Editor’s note: The Copts arrested in this incident were released several days later. Egyptian security forces have arrested 14 Copts and assaulted a priest in [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic Solidarity – At a time when the lives of the people of Egypt have been, like the lives of most people around the world, disrupted by [...]

By Mina Abdelmalak – RealClearReligion – As the world struggles to fight back against the coronavirus pandemic, governments across the globe are searching for ways to save as many [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – As 2019 drew to a close, I reviewed a number of Coptic issues that had not been resolved during the year, meaning they had to be carried into 2020 for [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani  Just a few days before their case is seen in court, and some two weeks after the ‘lady of al-Karm’ was granted justice by court, four of the five al-Karm Copts [...]

By Charlie Hoyle – The New Arab In the Coptic Cathedral of the Nativity, on the eastern edges of Cairo, security was tight as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reiterated his longstanding [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – special for CS – The New Year began with an uptick of slaughter attempts on Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority. First, on January 12, a Muslim man crept up behind [...]

By Mina Ibn Bakira – Washington Examiner – At midnight on Nov. 23, 2019, Egyptian state security broke into a young Coptic activist’s home and arrested him without a warrant, [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  Conventional wisdom teaches that it is important to visit a country like Egypt to understand the dynamics of discrimination and religious persecution. Thus, Egypt is [...]

Garnett Genuis is the Member of Parliament for Sherwood Park–Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, Canada. He spoke at Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Conference in Washington, DC in a session [...]