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By Mohamed Hamama/Translated by Heba Afify – Mada Masr – Parliament has passed a law regulating the construction and restoration of churches in just three days, after months of [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – There’s nothing like knowing Arabic—that is, being privy to the Muslim world’s internal conversations on a daily basis—to disabuse oneself of [...]

By Egyptian Streets – Non-profit organization Coptic Solidarity has filed formal complaints with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA alleging that Coptic Christian athletes [...]

By Mada Masr – The Coptic Orthodox Church declared a compromise with the Egyptian government on Wednesday night over a contentious draft law organizing the building of churches. The [...]

By Samia Sidhom – Watani – Given the discrimination, oppression and severe humiliation Christians in Egypt have to sustain if they so much as think of building or renovating a church, it is [...]

By MEMRI  – Al-Azhar’s Poisonous Curricula Are Responsible For Attacks On Copts; Al-Azhar Accuses Anyone Who Disagrees With It Of Heresy. In his first article, ‘Abd Al-Tawab [...]

By Prince Hassan of Jordan and Ed Kessler – The Telegraph – Christianity has been part of the essential fabric of the Middle East for 2,000 years. Far from being a western import as [...]

By Alex McDonald, Middle East Eye – Saudi religious police have ordered a Marks & Spencers shop to cover logos featuring the British flag on a school uniform as they feature [...]

By Dina Ezzat, Ahram Online – “I was praying for health and comfort; for my family, especially those of my children in Canada and Australia, and of course for my country, but things still [...]

By World Watch Monitor – The Coptic Orthodox Church has voiced its dismay at amendments to a draft law that was hoped to put churches on a par with the country’s numerous mosques. “The [...]