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By Magdi Khalil  – Coptic Solidarity Executive Committee Member Historical Introduction Christianity was brought to Egypt sometime between 55-61 AD, at the hands of St. Mark the Evangelist, [...]

By Morning Star News – A Coptic pharmacist was stabbed to death and then beheaded by a group of Salafi Muslims in Egypt’s Delta region Monday (July 4), the latest in a string of attacks [...]

By MECHRIC – On June 27th, the Christian town of Al Qaa in northeastern Lebanon, a few miles from the Syrian border, was the target of eight suicide bombers. This attack resulted in the [...]

Ahram Online – The nun who was killed on Tuesday on the Cairo-Alexandria road was caught in the crossfire of a “revenge crime,” and was not a target of a sectarian attack, Egypt’s interior [...]

Shahira Amin – Egyptian Streets – A photo released by Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows Egyptian President Abdulfattah Al-Sisi (second right), the Grand Sheik of [...]

By John L. Allen Jr., CRUX – Few would suggest that Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a savior figure, with a dubious approach to human rights and a mixed record on protecting the [...]

By Sandra Elliot – International Christian Concern – In the recent wave of kidnappings that are plaguing Upper Egypt, Christian women and girls are being taken off the streets and [...]

By Egyptian Streets – A snapshot from a video released on Twitter by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis on August 28, 2014. In a statement claiming responsibility, the ISIS-affiliated Ansar Bait [...]

By Mai Shams El-Din – Mada Masr – June 4, 2013: Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church stood behind then Chief of the Armed Forces Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he announced the end [...]

By Ahram Online – In late May, Muslim villagers set ablaze a number of Christians’ homes and a woman was paraded naked in public, according to the Coptic Church An Egyptian court [...]