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Egypt: Christians Still Denied Churches While Government Opens 10 Mosques Every Week

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special to Coptic Solidarity – Egyptian authorities and politicians recently held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on Islam, in the [...]

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Doubly Targeted – In the Middle East and in the West

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMERI We live in a deeply politicized and polarized world. This is a place where saying that “all lives matter” is seemingly politically incorrect. It [...]

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Sohag Copts: All We Want Is to Pray

By Nader Shukry – Watani Efforts to persuade the Muslim villagers of al-Naghameesh in Dar-as-Salam, Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, to allow the village Copts to practise their religious rites [...]

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Before the Law for Building Churches: The Copts’ constitutional right to pray

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani I have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent was last week’s; it tackled the open question of [...]

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“Build a church? Out of question!”

By Nader Shukry – Watani For Copts, the Law for Building and Restoring Churches they had so long aspired for was passed last August. So now they finally have in hand a law to ensure their [...]

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Potentially Deadly Church Attack Thwarted in Egypt

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – A man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers say could’ve been a repeat of the [...]

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In post-Arab Spring Egypt, Muslim attacks on Christians are rising

By Sudarsan Raghavan  – The Independent A ‘disturbing wave of radicalism’ has deepened sectarian tensions, pitting neighbour against neighbour The Christian and Muslim villagers grew up [...]

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Pakistan Bans All Christian TV Stations, Arrests Cable Operators in Crackdown

By Anugrah Kumar – Christian Post – Pakistan’s television regulatory body has banned all 11 Christian TV channels airing in the country and arrested at least six cable operators [...]

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Mariam Ibraheem, Christian Mother Who Gave Birth in Chains, and Other Persecuted Christians Share Testimonies in DC

By Samuel Smith – Christian Post – Five different churches in the nation’s capital united together Saturday night to pray for Christians being persecuted all over the world and [...]

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Western Leaders: Pressure Saudis to Give Christians Religious Rights

By Hilal Khashan – The Hill – Prince Mohammed met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley last June. Three months earlier, Saudi Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah [...]