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Syriac Catholic Patriarch: Middle Eastern Christians Being Targeted

  Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Yonan, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians for the Syriac Catholic Church, is decrying persecution of Christians in the Middle...

Egyptian Land Dispute Threatens Inter-Religious Flashpoint

*** What in a normal setting is an everyday land dispute can quickly turn into a full-blown ‘sectarian’ flashpoint with adverse effects on the wider...

Egypt Objects to Proposal at Human Rights Council for Abolishing Death Sentence

  Egypt's UN Human Rights Council member Amr Ramadan issued a statement Saturday objecting to a proposal made by several European countries seeking to abolish internationally the...

A Close Look at the Changes to Egypt’s Ministries

  Abolished: Ministry of Transitional Justice   Perhaps most significant was the decision to revert the Ministry of Transitional Justice to the Ministry of Legal and Parliamentary...

ISIS “Were Not Strangers; They Were Our Neighbors”

  “The people who fought us and forced us to leave were not strangers, they were our neighbors.”     Doha and Adeeb are Iraqi Christians forced to...

Prosecution Dismisses ‘Zero Student’ Case, Lawyer Says Exam Observers Didn’t Follow Procedure

  The prosecution had dismissed finally on Wednesday the case of highschool girl Mariam Malak, ruling that her allegations "were proven untrue".    In a telephone interview...

These Are the Ten Issues Sisi Focused on in New York

  The main theme of Sisi’s UNGA speech was a call for world leaders to unite, recognize the root causes of instability facing the MENA...

Obama Calls for Defeating ISIL with ‘Better Ideas’; Putin Disagrees, Launches Air Strikes

  During a summit with world leaders at the United Nations, Obama claimed that “military pressure” will not force ISIL to back down and that...

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