Tag:IRF Ambassador

State Department religious freedom summit ends with commitments, critiques

By Adelle M. Banks - Religion News Service - The State Department concluded its first-ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom Thursday (July 26), with declarations...

- July 30, 2018 0

CS Releases

Coptic Solidarity Applauds Confirmation of Ambassador for International Religious Freedom

By Coptic SolidarityFor Immediate Release(Washington, DC) January 26, 2018Coptic Solidarity applauds the confirmation on Wednesday of Governor Sam Brownback (R-KS) as the Ambassador-at-Large for...

- January 26, 2018 0

News

After Long Wait in Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback Gets Ambassadorship

By Mitch Smith - The New York TimesGov. Sam Brownback of Kansas was narrowly confirmed to an ambassadorship on Wednesday after a six-month wait...

- January 25, 2018 0

News

What Trump can do to secure religious freedom

By Thomas Farr - The Hill -As a candidate, Donald Trump said very little publicly about rising threats to religious freedom abroad. But recent...

- February 16, 2017 0

Date Range

RSS Feed from WWMonitor

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 […]

Tag:IRF Ambassador

WHO ARE THE COPTS?

Follow Us