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Al Azhar: No to Reforming “Religious Discourse”

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for CS -Much of Al Azhar University’s curriculum is based on Islam’s ancillary books, written in the medieval era...

- November 16, 2016 0

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Why a Cop Controls Human Rights in Egypt’s Parliament

By George Mikhail – Al-MonitorHuman rights is a touchy subject in Egypt, but even more so since recent parliamentary elections produced what some fear...

- November 10, 2016 0

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Speak Freedom Dallas Event

Coptic Solidarity president, Dr. George Gurguis, will be speaking at a public rally in Dallas, TX on Saturday, November 5th. The public and media...

- November 3, 2016 0

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Al Azhar: Muslims May Befriend Christians Only When Good for Muslims

By Raymond Ibrahim: Special for Coptic SolidarityAn Arabic language video of an Al Azhar professor, Dr. Salim Abdul Galil, is instructive of how that Egyptian...

- November 2, 2016 0

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Egypt Elected to UN Human Rights Council

By POMEDOn October 29, Egypt was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for a term running from 2017 to 2020. Egypt...

- November 2, 2016 0

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Christian children ‘singled out for bullying’ in Egyptian classrooms

By WorldWatch MonitorWhen 12-year-old Rahma Salem refused to wear a hijab to school in the Delta in northern Egypt, teachers ordered her to leave...

- November 1, 2016 1

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Will Cairo reverse decision to transfer islands to Riyadh?

By Ayah Aman – Al-MonitorAs the Egyptian government defends in court its maritime border agreement with Saudi Arabia that transferred two Red Sea islands...

- October 28, 2016 0

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Campaign Fights against Headscarf in Egypt’s Schools

By POMED -A new campaign by the New Women Foundation (NWF) is calling to ensure schoolgirls are not forced to wear a headscarf as...

- October 25, 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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