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Senate panel slashes military aid to Egypt

By Bryant Harris - Al MonitorThe Senate’s foreign aid spending panel voted today to slash military assistance to Egypt by $300 million amid growing...

- September 8, 2017 0

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Sisi and Trump’s Good Relations Don’t Define US Policy

By Hatem Maher - MENASource - The Atlantic -When President Donald Trump won the US presidential election late last year, Egyptian media coverage praising...

- September 8, 2017 0

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Senators, stop the Middle East genocide — bring aid bill to the floor

By Stephen Hollingshead and Loay Mikael - The HillThe horrors of the ISIS genocide continue, and the most deliberative body in the world is...

- September 7, 2017 0

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Clarion Takes to Congress to Challenge Radical Islam

Clarion Project's, Mrs. Raheel Raza, testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security.Raheel Raza is a member of the Clarion Project Advisory Board. She is president...

- August 1, 2017 0

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Churches Cancel Summer Activities on Terrorist Threats

By Watani -Churches in Egypt have cancelled their summer activities, mainly trips to monasteries or holy sites, spiritual retreats or conventions, and in many...

- July 14, 2017 0

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U.S. House Appropriations Draft Bill Calls for $1.45 billion for Egypt Aid

By POMED -The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs released its Fiscal Year 2018 draft appropriations bill...

- July 14, 2017 0

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Egypt on the Hill: Criticism, Praise, and Policy

By Christian Bischoff - POMEDThe issue of U.S. policy toward Egypt has come up in four congressional hearings held in the past two weeks....

- June 28, 2017 0

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Statement By U.S. Senator Rubio for Coptic Solidarity

Statement by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R - FL) for Coptic SolidaritySenator Rubio was unable to join Coptic Solidarity's 8th Annual Policy Day last...

- June 19, 2017 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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