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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. [...]

By World Watch Monitor – When 12-year-old Rahma Salem refused to wear a hijab to school in the Delta in northern Egypt, teachers ordered her to leave lesson after lesson and would not let [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – September 4, 2016 Coptic Solidarity will host a remembrance event at the National Press Club in Washington DC on October 5, 2016 at Noon Eastern Time in the Zenger [...]

By MEMRI – In a video posted on her Facebook page on September 21, New York-based Egyptian-American activist Ayat Oraby called the Coptic church “a gang, striving to establish a [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – At a time when Coptic Christians are suffering abuses “every two or three days” in Egypt, a Muslim woman in America has made a video [...]

By World Watch Monitor – Over 100 parliamentarians from 60 countries met this week in Berlin for a series of workshops and seminars under the title, “An Embattled Right: Protecting and [...]