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Rubio, Menendez, Colleagues Urge Secretary Tillerson to Reaffirm U.S. Commitment to Democracy, Human Rights in Egypt

March 7, 2018Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Susan Collins, (R-ME), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Tim Kaine (D-VA), John...

- March 9, 2018 0

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الجنايات» تؤيد سجن الصحفي أحمد الخطيب 4 سنوات بعد إدانته بإهانة الأزهر

كتب- محمد مجدى:قضت محكمة جنايات الجيزة المنعقدة بمحكمة «زينهم»، برئاسة المستشار جمال عبد اللاه، بتأييد حكم سجن الصحفي أحمد الخطيب رئيس القسم السياسي في...

- March 9, 2018 0

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Coptic Solidarity Responds to Egyptian Parliament Meeting with USCIRF

By Coptic Solidarity(Washington, DC) March 9, 2018Editors Note: Coptic Solidarity addresses the specific comments reportedly made by Egyptian Parliamentarians. No reporting on USCIRF policy...

- March 9, 2018 0

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Egypt: Christians Still Denied Churches While Government Opens 10 Mosques Every Week

By Raymond Ibrahim - Special to Coptic SolidarityEgyptian authorities and politicians recently held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on...

- December 8, 2016 0

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Before the Law for Building Churches: The Copts’ constitutional right to pray

By Youssef Sidhom – WataniI have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent...

- December 5, 2016 0

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“Build a church? Out of question!”

By Nader Shukry – WataniFor Copts, the Law for Building and Restoring Churches they had so long aspired for was passed last August. So...

- November 30, 2016 0

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Why Egypt’s New Church Law Has Some Activists Worried

Why Egypt's New CHurch Law Has Some Activists WorriedBy Abdelrahman Eyad - Al-MonitorEgyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a law on the construction and...

- October 6, 2016 0

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Reproducing the Status Quo: New Church Construction Law Consolidates Discriminatory State Policies and Confiscates Citizenship Rights of Future Generations

Reproducing the Status Quo: New Church Construction Law Consolidates Discriminatory State Policies and Confiscates Citizenship Rights of Future GenerationsEIPRAugust 31, 2016The Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

- September 6, 2016 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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