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By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies –  The undersigned organizations welcome the Cassation Court’s decision today April 5th to order a retrial in Case no. 173/2011, known as the [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  Mob rule has stopped hundreds of Christians in a village in Upper Egypt building their first church, World Watch Monitor has learned from local Copts. The nearest [...]

By World Watch Monitor – A young Egyptian Copt reported to have committed suicide in his army unit last week was in fact killed by his commanding officer, his family say. Matthew [...]

By POMED –  On March 8, Egyptian MP Alaa Abed accused seven prominent NGOs and human rights organizations of receiving funding from foreign intelligence agencies in exchange for publishing [...]

March 7, 2018 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Susan Collins, (R-ME), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Tim Kaine (D-VA), John McCain (R-AZ), Cory [...]

كتب- محمد مجدى: قضت محكمة جنايات الجيزة المنعقدة بمحكمة «زينهم»، برئاسة المستشار جمال عبد اللاه، بتأييد حكم سجن الصحفي أحمد الخطيب رئيس القسم السياسي في جريدة الوطن سابقًا، 4 سنوات وتغريمه 20 ألف [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – (Washington, DC) March 9, 2018 Editors Note: Coptic Solidarity addresses the specific comments reportedly made by Egyptian Parliamentarians. No reporting on USCIRF [...]

By POMED – On March 7, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein described the Egyptian government’s suppression of freedom of expression in [...]

By Philip Kosloski – Aleteia – And one of them has been continuously inhabited by monks since its foundation  The history of Catholic consecrated life dates to the earliest centuries [...]

By MEMRI – President of Cairo University Mohamed Al-Khosht called for a “completely new religious discourse,” saying that “reformed discourse” was not enough and [...]