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By Carey Lodge, Christian Today – Egypt has passed a law on building and restoring churches after weeks of heavy criticism from the Coptic Christian community. Lawmakers on Tuesday approved [...]

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Mohamed Abdellah – Reuters – Egypt’s parliament approved on Tuesday a long-awaited law that governs building and renovating churches, an issue that has [...]

By Gamal Essam El-Din – Ahram Online – After four hours of stormy debate, Egypt’s parliament has approved on Tuesday a landmark law aimed at making it easier for Christians to build [...]

By Associated Press – Egypt’s lawmakers on Tuesday passed the country’s first law spelling out the rules for building a church, a step Christians have long hoped would free up [...]

By Mohamed Hamama/Translated by Heba Afify – Mada Masr – Parliament has passed a law regulating the construction and restoration of churches in just three days, after months of [...]

By MEMRI – In a series of articles in the official Egyptian daily Al-Watan, Dr. ‘Imad Gad, a Coptic MP from the Free Egyptians Party and deputy director of the Al-Ahram Center for [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – FrontPage Magazine – There’s nothing like knowing Arabic—that is, being privy to the Muslim world’s internal conversations on a daily basis—to disabuse oneself of [...]

By Egyptian Streets – Non-profit organization Coptic Solidarity has filed formal complaints with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA alleging that Coptic Christian athletes [...]

By Mada Masr – The Coptic Orthodox Church declared a compromise with the Egyptian government on Wednesday night over a contentious draft law organizing the building of churches. The [...]

By Samia Sidhom – Watani – Given the discrimination, oppression and severe humiliation Christians in Egypt have to sustain if they so much as think of building or renovating a church, it is [...]