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MECHRIC Calls on President El-Sisi to Address the Jihadist Ideology in Egypt

For Immediate ReleaseApril 9th, 2017WASHINGTON DC: The Middle East Christian Committee (Al-Lijna Al-Mashreqia) condemns in the strongest possible terms the barbaric attack with explosives...

Rage at abandonment by the state as Egypt’s Christians dig graves after bombing

By Reuters -Egyptian Christians wept with rage on Monday as they recovered the bodies of loved ones killed in twin church bombings, furious at...

Coptic Solidarity Condemns Palm Sunday Pogrom of Egypt’s Copts, Demands International Inquiry

 For Immediate Release(Washington, DC) April 10, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire -Coptic Solidarity strongly condemns the cowardly church bombings on Palm Sunday (April 9) in Tanta, and...

Why ISIS Declared War on Egypt’s Christians

By Mukhtar Awad - The Atlantic -The group has been exporting Iraq-style sectarian tactics to the Arab world’s most populous country.Four months after an...

44 Dead Christians: Radical Islam’s Latest Victims

By Raymond Ibrahim - Frontpage MagaineEgypt’s Christians began Holy Week celebrations by being blown up today. Two Coptic Christian Orthodox churches packed with worshippers for...

Egypt Declares State of Emergency, as Attacks Undercut Promise of Security

By New York Times -Rattling a country already wrestling with a faltering economy and deepening political malaise, two suicide bombings that killed 44 people...

Egyptians mourn, but do they understand?

By Timothy Kaldas - CNN -After the bombing of two churches on Palm Sunday in Tanta and Alexandria, the Egyptian people have entered a state...

ISIS Proves Its Strength in Egypt With Slaughter of Coptic Christians

By Ruth Michaelson - TIME -A pair of bombings claimed by ISIS targeting Egypt's Christian community killed at least 44 people on Sunday, illustrating the militant group's...

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