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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 [...]

By Mada Masr – Sectarian violence erupted in the village of Ezbet Assem, in the governorate of Minya on Monday following a traffic dispute and subsequent brawl. The incident is reported to [...]

By Human Rights Watch – Many Egyptians hoped that governments would respect and protect freedom of religion, including for Christians, after the 2011 uprising. Instead, the authorities are [...]