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Egypt: judge sentences Coptic boy to 15 years; lawyer says ruling motivated ‘by faith, not law’

By World Watch Monitor  – A 15-year-old Coptic Christian boy has been sentenced to 15 years in an Egyptian prison for sexual assault, even though forensic reports showed no evidence of a [...]

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Resetting US Policy Towards Egypt: Combating Terrorism and Enhancing Civil Rights

A Statement by Coptic Solidarity – February 6, 2017 President Trump now has a golden opportunity to reset US relations with Egypt making human rights a high priority while simultaneously [...]

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Egypt’s PM forms committee to legalise status of churches

By Ahram Online – Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued on Monday a decision to form a committee to legalise the status of churches that were constructed without licenses, in [...]

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Case of Copt tortured to death: witnesses threatened

By Nader Shukry – Watani – The lawyers who represent the family of the Copt Magdy Makeen, 54, who died of torture in the police station of al-Ameeriya in Cairo last December, have [...]

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To My Muslim Egyptian Friends, I Say I am puzzled

An open letter By: Lofty Basta, MD – My dears, I have to be frank with you. The massacre of 25 Copts and injuring of more than 60 worshipers in the Chapel near the Patriarchate of Egypt IS [...]

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Egypt & Persecution of Coptic Christians

Mimi Geerges interviews Samuel Tadros, Hudson Institute, and Oren Kessler, Foundation of Defense of Democracies.

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Muhammad Married to Mary? For Egypt’s Christians, No “Anti-Defamation of Religions” Protection

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity –  Recently during his televised program, Dr. Salem Abdul Galil—previously deputy minister of Egypt’s religious endowments for [...]

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Women who are captured by Isis and kept as slaves endure more than just sexual violence

David Barnett  – Independent (UK) – Yazidi women seized by Isis are not merely sex slaves – a term which oversexualises their ordeal and diminishes their trauma. They are collateral [...]

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Fourth Coptic Christian murdered in 10 days

By World Watch Monitor – A Coptic surgeon was found murdered in his flat on Friday (13 Jan) in Upper Egypt, making him the fourth Coptic Christian murder victim in 10 days. Married [...]

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Four Copts Slaughtered Over 10 Days in Egypt

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – That the Coptic Church continues to voice its support for President Sisi should not be interpreted to mean that the situation of [...]