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By Karoline Kamel – Mada Masr – Father Samaan Shehata tried to propel himself forward with all the strength he could summon, after a cleanly-shaven young man in a galabeya with a [...]

Coptic Solidarity Report: 2nd Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Day October 11, 2017 Coptic Solidarity hosted its 2nd Annual Modern Coptic Martyrs Remembrance Day (MCMRD) on October 5, 2017, in the US [...]

By Jayson Casper – World Watch Monitor The churches of Egypt are temporarily shutting down their summer activities. “I asked all our churches and conference centres to cancel their trips [...]

By Mariam Ibrahim – Mada Masr – Is a religious narrative that frames the killing of Copts as God’s will at odds with mounting resistance to sectarian attacks? “We never dreamed [...]

By Dibie Ike Michael with Reuters – Published by Africa News – Ten-year-old Egyptian schoolboy Mina Habib recounts the day Islamist gunmen killed his father in an attack on a group of [...]

By La Croix International – Attack on Christians in Egypt raises many questions Twenty-nine pilgrims on their way to the Saint Samuel Monastery in Upper Egypt, including many children, were [...]

By – POMED –  According to a Ministry statement [Ar], Shoukry also emphasized that the UNHRC must respect cultural diversity in discussing human rights and cannot selectively target [...]

By Watani International –  The plight of the Copts in the North Sinai town of al-Arish is irking Egypt in its entirety. Arish Copts have been fleeing town since 22 February 2017 in the wake [...]

By Reuters – A Christian cleric on Thursday criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel for kowtowing to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and downplaying human rights concerns as she headed [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  A Coptic Christian mother in North Sinai who saw her son and husband killed in front of her in their home says she then saw the gunman calmly tick off her loved [...]