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By Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor – State Department – Executive Summary According to its constitution, Egypt is a republic governed by an elected president and [...]

By FoRB in full –  A Blog by Christian Solidarity Worldwide –  In November 2018, seven Coptic Christians were killed and 18 injured when terrorists attacked the bus they were [...]

By Ramy Aziz -Middle East Quarterly (Spring 2019) – Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in July 2013 through a military coup, supported by many sectors of Egyptian society that wanted to rid [...]

By NPR – Morning Edition In the Egyptian province with the biggest percentage of Christians, the government has refused to grant permits for churches. Tens of thousands of people have [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani – Minya Criminal Court last week handed a death sentence to the policeman Rabie Mustafa Khalifa for shooting to death two Copts in the city of Minya some [...]

By Morning Star News –  A Christian mother from Sudan had deep cause for fear last November when her Muslim brother went to her church in Cairo, Egypt with a photo of her husband and asked [...]

By POMED –  On January 23, amid the ongoing debate over the government shutdown, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill for Fiscal Year 2019 that would maintain the [...]

By MEMRI –  During a January 7, 2017 address at the Al-Khulafa Al-Rashideen Mosque in Sixth of October City near Cairo, Egyptian cleric Samir Hashish referred to a hadith in Sahih [...]

By Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm The main committee for the legalization of churches in Egypt approved on Monday the legalization of 80 churches and affiliate [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Dear Supporters, Last week I wrote to you, sharing Coptic Solidarity’s key accomplishments in 2018. I am so grateful for the donations of our friends and supporters [...]