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By Raymond Ibrahim – Special to Coptic Solidarity – For an idea of why Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their churches are constantly under attack—most recently last Sunday, when a [...]

For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the brutal attack of December 11 on St. Peter and St. Paul church [...]

By WorldWatch Monitor – Egypt’s Christian community is in mourning following what the BBC has referred to as the “deadliest attack on the Coptic community in recent memory”. At least 25 [...]

By Paul Keenan – The Irish Catholic – The latest in a litany of ongoing attacks on the Coptic community in Egypt took place towards the end of last month in al Nagameesh, the evidence [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special to Coptic Solidarity – Egyptian authorities and politicians recently held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the [...]

By The Guardian – Human rights activists in Egypt have reacted angrily to the arrest of prominent women’s rights advocate Azza Soliman, saying it marked a “chilling escalation” of pressure [...]

By Amr Hamzawy – The Washington Post – Last week, an overwhelming majority of the Egyptian parliament passed repressive legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani Efforts to persuade the Muslim villagers of al-Naghameesh in Dar-as-Salam, Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, to allow the village Copts to practise their religious rites [...]

By POMED – After the Egyptian parliament moved forward with an extremely repressive NGO law on November 29, twenty-two NGOs, four political parties, and 19 public figures urged President [...]

By Egyptian Streets – The People’s Girls (بنات الناس), a short documentary that explores sexual harassment in Egypt through a series of interviews and social experiments, won the ‘Best [...]