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By Matthew Schmitz – First Things –  As the sun comes up, the men go out from Garbage City and into the streets of ­Cairo. Some walk alone, carrying empty plastic sacks over their [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani –  Problems on hold The story of the Coptic Catholic Church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in the village of Higaza Qibli In Quos, Qena, some 570km south of [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity –  Once again, last week the Egyptian court system denied justice to Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority by postponing judgment on two [...]

By Mada Masr – The European Parliament adopted a strongly worded resolution on Thursday that condemns the recent government crackdown and wave of arrests in Egypt and calls on European [...]

By Samuel Tadros – With Holy Week starting in nine days, Copts across Egypt were preparing for the most important week in their faith. Unlike in the West, Easter—and, more precisely, the [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Christian Newswire For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) October 14, 2019 Coptic Solidarity will be hosting the  4th Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day on [...]

By World Watch Monitor – Friends of a 40 year-old Egyptian who converted from Islam to Christianity believe that his premature death on 4th October is linked to numerous threats he received [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Problems on hold In last week’s Editorial, I listed the unlicensed churches which were granted legality throughout the last two years by the Cabinet [...]

Video of a panel discussion titled Radical Islamic Institutions in Egypt: Can they be reformed?  which took place during Coptic Solidarity’s 10th Annual Conference on June 21, 2019, at the [...]

By Ronen Bergman and Declan Walsh – The New York Times – A series of sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Egyptian journalists, academics, lawyers, opposition politicians and human rights [...]