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My Survivor’s Guilt: Coping with the Trauma of Loss After Maspero

By Sally Toma – Mada Masr I first met Mina Danial in Tahrir Square, following the bloody events of the Battle of the Camel. I believed in him from our first encounter. I had a lot of hopes, and [...]

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A Growing Rift Between Egypt’s Christians and Their Leaders Spells Trouble

By Dr. Sarah E. Yerkes – Brooking Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy – Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the October 9, 2011 Maspero massacre in which Egyptian army [...]

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Egypt’s Draft NGO Law ‘Reflects Traditional Official Trepidation About NGOS’

By POMED – The United Group, an Egyptian law firm, published on October 5 an examination of the draft NGO law recently approved by the Egyptian Cabinet on September 8. The United Group [...]

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Why Egypt’s New Church Law Has Some Activists Worried

By Abdelrahman Eyad –  Al-Monitor – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a law on the construction and restoration of churches on Sept. 28, nearly a month after it had [...]

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Coptic Solidarity Hosts Press Conference Initiating Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day on 5th Anniversary of Maspero Massacre

By Coptic Solidarity – September 4, 2016 Coptic Solidarity will host a remembrance event at the National Press Club in Washington DC on October 5, 2016 at Noon Eastern Time in the Zenger [...]

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N.Y.-Based Egyptian-American Activist Ayat Oraby Calls For Economic Boycott Of Copts: In Segment She Titles’Boycott The Christians Economically,’ Says Crescent Must Always Be Atop Cross

By MEMRI – In a video posted on her Facebook page on September 21, New York-based Egyptian-American activist Ayat Oraby called the Coptic church “a gang, striving to establish a [...]

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American Muslim Woman Demonizes Egypt’s Persecuted Copts

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – At a time when Coptic Christians are suffering abuses “every two or three days” in Egypt, a Muslim woman in America has made a video [...]

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Freedom of Religion or Belief ‘The Defining Issue of our Time’

By World Watch Monitor – Over 100 parliamentarians from 60 countries met this week in Berlin for a series of workshops and seminars under the title, “An Embattled Right: Protecting and [...]

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Sectarianism Strikes Again in Minya, Police Arrest Coptic Man Hospitalized in ICU

By Mada Masr – Sectarian violence erupted in the village of Ezbet Assem, in the governorate of Minya on Monday following a traffic dispute and subsequent brawl. The incident is reported to [...]

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Egypt’s New Chuch Law Discriminates Against Christians. Authorities Fail to Prevent, Punish Violent Attacks

By Human Rights Watch – Many Egyptians hoped that governments would respect and protect freedom of religion, including for Christians, after the 2011 uprising. Instead, the authorities are [...]