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By Stephen McInerney and Amy Hawthorne – POMED –  Sisi’s supporters praise his religious tolerance. They shouldn’t. Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of one of [...]

By Office of US Congressman French Hill – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: April 9, 2019 Rep. Hill Calls on President Trump to Defend Coptic Christians in Meeting with Egyptian President el-Sisi [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – On Sunday, March 17, the ruling court in Minya, Egypt, recused itself and stepped down from two ongoing cases concerning the [...]

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 [...]