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A Statement by Coptic Solidarity – February 6, 2017 President Trump now has a golden opportunity to reset US relations with Egypt making human rights a high priority while simultaneously [...]

By Ahram Online – Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued on Monday a decision to form a committee to legalise the status of churches that were constructed without licenses, in [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani – The lawyers who represent the family of the Copt Magdy Makeen, 54, who died of torture in the police station of al-Ameeriya in Cairo last December, have [...]

An open letter By: Lofty Basta, MD – My dears, I have to be frank with you. The massacre of 25 Copts and injuring of more than 60 worshipers in the Chapel near the Patriarchate of Egypt IS [...]

Mimi Geerges interviews Samuel Tadros, Hudson Institute, and Oren Kessler, Foundation of Defense of Democracies.

David Barnett  – Independent (UK) – Yazidi women seized by Isis are not merely sex slaves – a term which oversexualises their ordeal and diminishes their trauma. They are collateral [...]

By World Watch Monitor – A Coptic surgeon was found murdered in his flat on Friday (13 Jan) in Upper Egypt, making him the fourth Coptic Christian murder victim in 10 days. Married [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – That the Coptic Church continues to voice its support for President Sisi should not be interpreted to mean that the situation of [...]

Nader Shukry – Watani International – Copts and liberal Egyptians were in for a disappointment on Saturday 14 January when Minya prosecution dismissed the case of the stripping and [...]

By Maged Atiya – Times are good for most American Copts, and beyond just the material comforts. Half a century after the first trickle of immigration there is now a desire to develop a [...]