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By Coptic Solidarity –  Christian Newswire (Washington, DC) December 17, 2018 For Immediate Release Coptic Solidarity urgently calls on the US Department of State and legislators to [...]

By Morning Star News – Funerals were held over the weekend in Egypt for seven Christians ambushed and killed on Friday (Nov. 2) in Islamist attacks. Hundreds of people attended the funeral [...]

By Nourhan Mostafa – Mada Masr – Translated by Ian Louie Safwat Shehata, a man from Minya who lost six relatives in Friday’s attack, recounts the ordeal Safwat Shehata, a man in his [...]

By Religion News Service –  The Coptic bishop of this city south of Cairo, Anba Makarios, spent the weekend trying to comfort mourners after two buses carrying Coptic Christians were [...]

By Chris Baynes – Independent –  At least seven people have been killed and 14 wounded in attack on a bus heading towards a Coptic Christian monastery in northern Egypt, No group has [...]

By Joanne Stocker – The Defense Post –  A bus carrying Coptic Christian passengers to a monastery was attacked in Egypt’s Minya governorate, according to reports on Friday, November [...]

By Clifford Smith – Washington Project Director for  Middle East Forum Let me begin with a qualifier:  While I am an observer of Middle Eastern affairs and try to be as [...]

By Neil Hicks –  Senior Director for Advocacy, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies This speech was given at Coptic Solidarity’s 3rd Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day [...]

By Jonathan Adly – History of the Copts Podcast This is the transcript of a talk that was given at the Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day in Washington, DC, October 3, 2018 Good [...]

By Robert Nicholson – Providence As Christians we care about our brothers and sisters in the Middle East, and because we care about Middle Eastern Christians, we care deeply about the [...]