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By Noha Elhennawy – AP  CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father’s death last year, Huda [...]

By World Watch Monitor – Three Coptic churches in the Upper Egypt region were hit by fires in the last three weeks which, the Copts say, is “not a coincidence”. On Friday morning 1 [...]

By Mada Masr – Egypt is “fully prepared” to face all the accusations it expects will be brought against it at the Universal Periodic Review session scheduled to be held at the United [...]

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 [...]