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For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the brutal attack of December 11 on St. Peter and St. Paul church [...]

By WorldWatch Monitor – Egypt’s Christian community is in mourning following what the BBC has referred to as the “deadliest attack on the Coptic community in recent memory”. At least 25 [...]

By Paul Keenan – The Irish Catholic – The latest in a litany of ongoing attacks on the Coptic community in Egypt took place towards the end of last month in al Nagameesh, the evidence [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special to Coptic Solidarity – Egyptian authorities and politicians recently held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani I have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent was last week’s; it tackled the open question of [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani For Copts, the Law for Building and Restoring Churches they had so long aspired for was passed last August. So now they finally have in hand a law to ensure their [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – A man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers say could’ve been a repeat of the [...]

By Sudarsan Raghavan  – The Independent A ‘disturbing wave of radicalism’ has deepened sectarian tensions, pitting neighbour against neighbour The Christian and Muslim villagers grew up [...]

By Heba Fahmy – Middle East Eye – The new law regulating the construction of churches is being called farcical and discriminatory by its critics After 160 years of tight restrictions on [...]

By Alix Culbertson – The Express (UK) – Christian children are being deprived of their education and being ousted from some schools for refusing to wear a hijab, it has been revealed. [...]