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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 [...]

By Sean Savage – JNS – As the Islamic State terror group faces setbacks in Syria and Iraq, its affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has turned its sights on the region’s small Coptic [...]

By – POMED –  According to a Ministry statement [Ar], Shoukry also emphasized that the UNHRC must respect cultural diversity in discussing human rights and cannot selectively target [...]

By Watani International –  The plight of the Copts in the North Sinai town of al-Arish is irking Egypt in its entirety. Arish Copts have been fleeing town since 22 February 2017 in the wake [...]

By Reuters – A Christian cleric on Thursday criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel for kowtowing to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and downplaying human rights concerns as she headed [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  A Coptic Christian mother in North Sinai who saw her son and husband killed in front of her in their home says she then saw the gunman calmly tick off her loved [...]