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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 POMED – A new campaign by the New Women Foundation (NWF) is calling to ensure schoolgirls are not forced to wear a headscarf as part of their mandatory uniform, according to campaign [...]

By International Christian Concern – Egypt Correspondent – Gaber Nassar, president of Cairo University, has taken action to end religious discrimination at his institution for good. [...]

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 [...]

By Nash Naam -Effingham Daily News – The magnificent Rio Olympic games ended last week. Some of the shiniest moments seen during the games were evident in the American delegation. The [...]

By EIPR – The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights expresses its deep concern about the House of Representatives’ rushed approval of the law regulating the construction and renovation of [...]

Le Monde – L’Egypte a voté pour la première fois, mardi 30 août, une loi sur la construction et la rénovation des églises, controversée au sein de la communauté chrétienne. Le Parlement a [...]

By The New York Times – The Egyptian government has appointed Imam Mahmoud Gomaa, a Muslim cleric, to keep the peace between Christians and Muslims in Minya, this corner of upper Egypt. [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – September 2, 2016 On Friday August 26, unidentified and armed militants broke into and robbed a Christian church, the Church of [...]

By POMED – On Tuesday, Egypt’s parliament approved a long-awaited change to the law governing the construction and renovation of churches in Egypt. The Coptic Church rejected previous [...]