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By EIPR – The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights is extremely concerned with the increasing frequency of sectarian violence in the Minya governorate, which has been the scene of [...]

By Max Lindenman – Aleteia – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in a snit, and on a tear. Having survived last Friday’s military coup, the Turkish president has declared a three-month “state of [...]

By Al-Ahram – Sunday’s attack in Minya followed May violence in which Christian houses were set ablaze and a woman was paraded naked through the streets Anger is mounting amongst [...]

By Morning Star News – One Christian is dead, several others have been wounded and a fire gutted a church building after Muslims across Egypt waged a weekend of violence against Copts. In [...]

Shahira Amin – Egyptian Streets – A photo released by Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows Egyptian President Abdulfattah Al-Sisi (second right), the Grand Sheik of [...]

By John L. Allen Jr., CRUX – Few would suggest that Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a savior figure, with a dubious approach to human rights and a mixed record on protecting the [...]

By Ben Hubbard and Hwaida Saad – The New York Times – Eight suicide bombers launched two waves of attacks on the Christian town of Al Qaa in northeastern Lebanon on Monday, killing at [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – For Immediate Release  Coptic Solidarity’s 7th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. entitled The Future of Egypt’s Religious Minorities: Status of Copts after Two [...]

By POMED – Researcher and rights activist Mina Thabet was released on LE10,000 bail after a court ordered his release on Saturday. Thabet is the director for minorities and marginalized [...]

By World Watch Monitor – Ongoing ‘phenomenon’ targets hundreds of Egyptian Christians The News Earlier this month, a young Christian boy was kidnapped in Upper Egypt, before being released [...]