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By Watani –  A church in the village of al-Shuqaf in Housh Eissa in the west Delta province of Beheira was attacked by a mob of Muslim hardliners on Saturday 26 May. The mob also pelted the [...]

By Reuters –  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday that the United States was concerned about certain activists who have been arrested even [...]

By Egypt Today –   For Muslims, It is sinful to eat during the day time in the holy month of Ramadan, unless one has an excuse such as illness. This led some Muslims along the years to [...]

By Taha Sakr – Egypt Independent – An Egyptian Juvenile court acquitted a four-year-old boy accused of kissing his same age female classmate in the kindergarten in Beheira [...]

By USCIRF –  U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM | 2018 ANNUAL REPORT | WWW.USCIRF.GOV | @USCIRF «اللجنة الأمريكية للحريات الدينية الدولية» لجنة حكومية فيدرالية تابعة [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  The closure of a church in Upper Egypt that sought legalisation has been condemned as illegal by the congregation’s lawyer, and charges made against eight of its [...]

By Nevine Kameel – Watani – Nostos: Reviving roots They called it Nostos. The encyclopaedia says ‘Nostos’ is Greek for the theme of a hero returning home from an epic journey—such as [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  A Coptic Christian woman who had been married for two weeks went missing from her school last Wednesday, sparking fears that she may have been kidnapped. Her [...]

 By Coptic Solidarity – The USCIRF report on the state of religious freedom in Egypt provides a good overview of the situation for Copts and other religious minorities. Coptic Solidarity [...]

By World Watch Monitor – A Coptic Christian soldier reported to have died by accident ten days ago was in fact killed, his family say. The family of 22-year-old Mikhail Farhat Saad Tamer [...]