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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...