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Sisi’s Call for a ‘Joint Electoral List’ Receives Chilly Response

  President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's suggestion one week ago that Egypt's mainstream political parties join the country's coming parliamentary elections as a single electoral bloc isn't...

Egypt Deploys Scholars to Teach Moderate Islam, but Skepticism Abounds

  In a televised speech in January at an Al-Azhar conference centre in Cairo, Sisi called for "a religious revolution" in Islam. Radicalised thinking, he...

Coptic Family Expelled from Home Village After Attack by Islamic Mobs

Copts must leave   On the evening of Sunday 24 May, a number of radical Muslim youth waged an attack against the homes of Copts in...

UN Official Reports on Islamic State’s “War on Women”

  ISIS is organized and coordinated and "operates on a widespread and systematic basis to commit a staggering array of atrocities," said Zainab Bangura, UN...

Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Once Again Basis of Mob Violence Against Christians

  The incident began in ways similar to past occasions involving the laws, which forbid descecration of the Quran. A man in Lahore claimed to...

Two Pastors in Sudan Face Death over Christian Faith

  Yat Michael Ruot and Peter Yein Reith, both Presbyterian pastors from the breakaway Christian nation of South Sudan, are being held by Sudan’s National...

Egypt Has Destroyed Over 500 Tunnels at Gaza Border Since October

Military spokesman Gen. Mohammed Samir told state-owned al-Ahram newspaper on May 25 that 521 tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt have been discovered since large-scale...

Why Al-Jazeera Network Is Imploding

    The Qatar-based network looked unstoppable just a few years ago, but its loss is a gain for anyone opposed to the extremist agenda it...

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