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‘Al -Ahram Columnist: “Despite Al-Sisi’s Call for Revolution in Religious Discourse, Al-Azhar Scholars Continue on their Extremist Path”

By MEMRI  – Al-Azhar’s Poisonous Curricula Are Responsible For Attacks On Copts; Al-Azhar Accuses Anyone Who Disagrees With It Of Heresy. In his first article, ‘Abd Al-Tawab [...]

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Christianity Belongs in the Middle East

By Prince Hassan of Jordan and Ed Kessler – The Telegraph – Christianity has been part of the essential fabric of the Middle East for 2,000 years. Far from being a western import as [...]

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Authorities keep turning their back on threats facing Egypt’s Copts: Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination

By Amira El-Fekki – Daily News Egypt –  The NGO staged a protest Saturday demanding that victims of sectarian attacks be granted their rights. A culture of religious discrimination is [...]

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Crimes and no punishment

By The Economist, From the print edition – Violence is only one of the problems faced by Christians in Egypt IT BEGAN with an argument over money, says a resident of Karam village in Minya. [...]

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Who Is Really Tarnishing Egypt’s Reputation?

By Coptic Solidarity –  Coptic Solidarity is gravely concerned about the increasing incidences of attacks on the Coptic community in Egypt recently. In the span of just the last few months, [...]

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Minya security directorate: there is no sectarianism, just ‘feuds between neighbours’

By Aswat Masriya – The head of the Minya security directorate, Faisal Dwaidar, said that there is no sectarian strife in the Upper Egypt governorate, and that the recent violence is a [...]

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Egypt Christians Stage Rare Cairo Protest, Demanding Rights

By Brian Rohan, Associated Press Cairo – Egyptian Christians staged a rare protest in downtown Cairo on Saturday to demand the government uphold their rights, saying they are being treated [...]

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Copt priests in Gulf meet to discuss challenges

By World Watch Monitor – Egyptian priests serving in the Arab Gulf region have held their first conference to discuss challenges faced in the heartland of Islam: “Challenges facing [...]

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We Are Living in Terror of Muslim Mobs, Say Copts

By Bel Trew, The Sunday Times (UK) – Dozens of Muslim men armed with Kalashnikovs, shotguns and pistols laughed as they stripped Souad Abdullah, an elderly housewife, and paraded her naked [...]

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The Coptic Church’s Faustian bargain

By Wael Eskandar – It didn’t take long for the regime to crack down on Islamist and secular opposition after the military takeover on 3 July 2013. Anyone speaking out against regime [...]