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Experts Criticize Draft Church Construction Law

By Mada Masr – Analysts criticized Egypt’s draft church construction law that intends to update church-building regulations initially published by the Ottoman Empire in 1856. Last week, the [...]

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Coptic Solidarity Urges Egypt’s New Law Regulating Construction of Churches to Break Away from the Historical Conditions of Dhimmitude

By Coptic Solidarity –  (Washington, DC) August 4, 2016 The 2014 Egyptian Constitution includes a provision stating that the Parliament was to pass a bill in its first legislative session [...]

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Coptic Solidarity Statement on August 2nd Peaceful Demonstration

Coptic Solidarity Statement on August 2nd Peaceful Demonstration  August 4, 2016 Coptic Solidarity organized a peaceful demonstration in front of the White House on August 2nd to protest the [...]

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Egyptian Demonstration in front of the White House

By Magdi Khalil – وصل المشاركين من كندا ومن عدد من الولايات الأمريكية للتظاهر أمام البيت الأبيض في الساعة العاشرة صباحاً وكان بإستقبالهم الباحث المعروف، “مجدي خليل” وأعضاء منظمة التضامن [...]

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“Minya Independent Islamic Republic”

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani International – I have never been hasty in writing down my opinion; quite the contrary, I have always been used to take my time to study situations and [...]

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Al-Sisi Meets with Coptic Pope

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 [...]

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The “Coptic issue” and the cycle of suffering

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 [...]

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Egypt: Before strife becomes sectarianism

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 [...]

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Coptic Pope prays in ancient church symbolic of past persecutions

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 [...]