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By POMED –  President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met [Ar] with Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Church, amid a spike of religious violence against Copts in Egypt. According to a Coptic Church [...]

By Mina Fayek , Open Democracy –  Last week, an Egyptian court ordered the release of all defendants accused of assaulting a Coptic woman in the southern city of Minya. Rumors had spread of [...]

Egypt: Before strife becomes sectarianism By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, Ahram Online July 26, 2016 Numerous, respected voices have been raised demanding enforcement of the law and justice in the most [...]

By World Watch  Monitor –  Egypt’s Pope Tawadros II made a heartfelt plea on Wednesday (20 July) on behalf of his country’s Coptic minority which has suffered in excess of 12 violent [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  After the latest round of attacks on Egypt’s Christian minority—which saw at least one Copt stabbed to death and many Christian homes and a church burned—Coptic [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  The 2014 Egyptian Constitution includes various aspirational guarantees of equality of citizenship for all Egyptians. Included in the Constitution is a specific [...]

Attacks on Copts are spreading to other provinces: Below are two clips showing new and fresh attacks on Copts and their homes and properties. During the last few weeks, several attacks were [...]

دعوة لمسيرة سلمية أمام البيت الأبيض تدعوكم منظمة التضامن القبطى، بالتعاون مع النشطاء المهتمين بأوضاع مصر والأقباط، لمسيرة سلمية أمام البيت الأبيض يوم الثلاثاء 2 أغسطس من العاشرة صباحا حتى الخامسة [...]

By EIPR – The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights is extremely concerned with the increasing frequency of sectarian violence in the Minya governorate, which has been the scene of [...]

By Al-Ahram – Sunday’s attack in Minya followed May violence in which Christian houses were set ablaze and a woman was paraded naked through the streets Anger is mounting amongst [...]