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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 [...]

By MEMRI  – Al-Azhar’s Poisonous Curricula Are Responsible For Attacks On Copts; Al-Azhar Accuses Anyone Who Disagrees With It Of Heresy. In his first article, ‘Abd Al-Tawab [...]

By Dina Ezzat, Ahram Online – “I was praying for health and comfort; for my family, especially those of my children in Canada and Australia, and of course for my country, but things still [...]

By World Watch Monitor – The Coptic Orthodox Church has voiced its dismay at amendments to a draft law that was hoped to put churches on a par with the country’s numerous mosques. “The [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) August 24, 2016 Coptic Solidarity recently filed formal complaints with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and with the [...]

By Egyptian Streets – Egypt’s Orthodox Church released a statement objecting to the “complexities and obstacles” in the governmental amendments to a long-awaited bill on church building in [...]

By Amira El-Fekki – Daily News Egypt –  The NGO staged a protest Saturday demanding that victims of sectarian attacks be granted their rights. A culture of religious discrimination is [...]

By The Economist, From the print edition – Violence is only one of the problems faced by Christians in Egypt IT BEGAN with an argument over money, says a resident of Karam village in Minya. [...]

By POMED – Ten Members of Parliament are likely to be investigated for attending a recent conference hosted by the Geneva Center for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue. The MPs [...]

By Michael Wahid Hanna and Daniel Benaimuag – In November 2015, a cartoon in Al-Ahram, an Egyptian state-owned newspaper, depicted an Islamic State ogre with “Made in America” emblazoned on [...]