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By Egyptian Streets – A snapshot from a video released on Twitter by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis on August 28, 2014. In a statement claiming responsibility, the ISIS-affiliated Ansar Bait [...]

By POMED – The United States Senate Appropriations Committee released its draft of the Fiscal Year 2017 State and Foreign Operations bill. The bill proposes $1.3 billion in military aid for [...]

By Mai Shams El-Din – Mada Masr – June 4, 2013: Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church stood behind then Chief of the Armed Forces Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he announced the end [...]

By Ahram Online – In late May, Muslim villagers set ablaze a number of Christians’ homes and a woman was paraded naked in public, according to the Coptic Church An Egyptian court [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Originally published by Gatestone Institute under the title, “Egypt: New Attacks on Christians.” In a chronically familiar scene, angry, rioting Muslims in Egypt burned [...]

By Al-Monitor – A new crisis has erupted following a draft law proposed in the parliament this month that would give President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the right to temporarily form a new [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – The line between “moderate” and “radical” Muslim continues to fade. On the question of apostasy in Islam—whether a born or converted Muslim has the right to abandon [...]

By Morning Star News – Parliamentary efforts in Egypt to repeal the country’s equivalent of a “blasphemy law” are facing stiff opposition from the Ministry of Justice. The ministry’s [...]

By Hamza Hendawi - AP – An Egyptian court on Tuesday rejected a border agreement that would have transferred two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, and which had sparked street protests in [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – For Immediate Release  Coptic Solidarity’s 7th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. entitled The Future of Egypt’s Religious Minorities: Status of Copts after Two [...]