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Christian Copts in Egypt Need Help

Meawad helped organize a demonstration Wednesday by hundreds of U.S. Coptic Christians in front of the White House, who then marched up Pennsylvania Avenue...

U.S. Should Abandon Support of Egypt’s SCAF

  State television further called upon “honorable citizens to come to the defense of Egypt’s military, which is facing attacks by the Copts,” in a...

The Return of Mubarak! A Statement by Political Groups after the Maspero Massacre

  Besides the defamation of protestors, the official (state-owned) media went on a sectarian campaign inciting the public against Egypt's Christians. They propagated messages from...

NEWSWEEK: Will the Copts, and Other Religious Minorities, Be Safe in the New Middle East?

Coptic Christianity in Egypt dates back the time of Mark the Evangelist, before the arrival of Islam. For much of the past 1,400 years...

Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt’s Christians?

So how have the first manifestations of "democracy"—in the guise of the "Arab spring" and "people-power," all hailed and supported by the U.S.—worked for...

Copts and Democracy’s Collateral Damage

This is a familiar story in the Middle East, where any sort of popular sovereignty has tended to unleash the furies and drive minorities...

NYT: Egypt’s Failing Army

  The killing of two dozen unarmed Coptic Christian protesters by security forces on Sunday has created a crisis point for the military rulers. On...

The Egyptian Military’s Crimes Against Humanity

    While the military dictatorship cleanses Egypt of its Christian minority, the Egyptian media only depict /images and "information" that comport with that agenda—all, of...

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