Tag:Egypt

Church built to honour beheaded Copts, but families still waiting for bodies’ return

By WorldWatch Monitor -February 15  marks the third anniversary of the beheading of 20 Egyptian Copts and a Ghanaian Christian, carried out by IS on...

Visiting Egypt, Tillerson Is Silent on Its Wave of Repression

By Declan Walsh - The New York Times CAIRO — Unusually for America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has kept a...

EIPR demands reinvestigation into attacks on the Kafr al-Wasilin church in Atfih, re-opening of the church for worship, and the speedy legalization of all...

By Egyptian Initiative for Personal RightsThe Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights is deeply concerned about the judgment issued yesterday by the Atfih Misdemeanor Court...

Forget the Terrorists, What about Your Government, Mr. Sisi?

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic SolidarityIt is one thing for Egyptian President Sisi not to be able to prevent surprise Islamic terror...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Finds Favor Again

By Abdallah Hendawy and Geneive Abdo - BloombergLike his predecessors, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has found the group impossible to ignore.More than four years after Egypt’s Muslim...

Oppressing Egypt’s Copts

By Dr. Henry Srebrnik - Saint John Telegraph-Journal -Six members of the United States Congress introduced a nonbinding resolution in the House of Representatives last Dec. 21 titled “Expressing Concern...

Egypt opposition slams President Sisi’s warning to opponents

By - Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - A political coalition including several high-profile Egyptians sharply criticized President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Friday for a speech...

Egypt’s Christians Suffering from “Very High Persecution”

By Raymond Ibrahim - Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity -For another consecutive year in a row, Egypt proves to be an inhospitable place for Christians,...