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By Saba E. Demian, M.D. Written in 2015 Open wide ye gates of heaven Ascend they on the Savior’s cross The laurels await to be given A gain of glory not a loss Their blood shed, stained the sand [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Christian News Wire Coptic Solidarity’s 5th Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Day will be hosted on Zoom this Friday, October 9th at 2 PM, Eastern Standard Time. [...]

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 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 Raymond Ibrahim – Note: The following is a book review of The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach.  A shorter version was first published by the Middle East [...]

By Marlo Safi – National Review – In the Middle East, Christians have been facing a wave of persecution that has decimated their populations in countries such as Syria, Iraq, and [...]

By Faith McDonnell – The Stream EDITORIAL UPDATE: After much publicity and advocacy, Faith McDonnell’s Facebook account was reinstated on February 20, 2019. A Christian human rights [...]

By Coptic Solidarity –  This week in 2015, 21 men were brutally beheaded on a Mediterranean beach in Libya, by members of ISIS. They had been captured by ISIS a few months earlier and [...]

By Christopher White – The Tablet – Four years ago this week, 21 men were videotaped on a beach in Libya as their ISIS captors beheaded them one by one. Of the 21 victims, 20 were [...]

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