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By Ehaab Abdou – Mada Masr – Over the past few years, we’ve been hearing recurring demands for the inclusion of Coptic history in textbooks, echoed in Pope Tawadros’s call to “teach [...]

By World Watch Monitor – “I remember a Coptic Christian girl from a rich, well-known family in Minya. She was kidnapped by five Muslim men. They held her in a house, stripped her and filmed [...]

By Sameh Sabri – Ahram Canada– We are disappointed because you appointed an extremist man of dark ideas, Dr. Mohammad Othman el-Khosht, a president of Cairo University, and you [...]

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 [...]

View video highlights from Coptic Solidarity’s 8th Annual Policy Day. This event was hosted on June 15, 2017, at the U.S. House Visitor Center.  The conference theme was Egypt: Combating [...]

By Mai Shams El-Din – Mada Masr – The absence of Christian players at the professional level can be traced to discrimination that begins young. Football is Egypt’s most popular sport; [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – The spectacular acts of slaughter and mayhem perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS) and its unabashed, prolific justification for them represents a [...]

By John Rossomando – IPT News Suicide bombings of two Coptic churches in Egypt Sunday by ISIS terrorists should not be viewed in isolation. The bombings killed 44 people and injured 100 [...]

By Samuel Tadros – The Atlantic – Christianity was born in pain in the country. An attack on a holy day is another bloody symbol of its beginnings. O-sana va-sili too Esraeel At Saint [...]

By Bel Trew – The Times (UK) Two Isis fighters wielding guns approached their target. Bahgat Zakhar, 58, was an Egyptian Copt on a “kill list” and the terrorists had been tracking him for [...]