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Sisi to attend 73rd UN General Assembly session: Diplomats

By Egypt Independent -Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-YoumPresident Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will address the general debate of the 73rd session for the UN General Assembly,...

- September 17, 2018 0

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H. RES. 673 – Expressing concern over attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt

H. RES. 673 - Expressing concern over attacks on Coptic Christians in EgyptIntroduced in House (12/21/2017)115th CONGRESS - 1st SessionIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESDecember 21,...

- August 16, 2018 0

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Potomac Declaration Issued During Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom

Potomac DeclarationIssued During Ministerial to Advance Religious FreedomJuly 24-26, 2018Preamble:The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims in Article 18 that “everyone has the right...

- July 30, 2018 0

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Administration should use its leverage to get Egypt to improve its human rights record

By Brian Dooley - The Hill - Last August, the State Department withheld $195 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) from Egypt. Rex Tillerson, then Secretary of State, said...

- July 30, 2018 0

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Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Entity

By Gatestone Institute - Tom Quiggin - It can be said that Hamas has more than mere "ties" to the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, its...

- July 19, 2018 0

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US Legislators’ Speeches at Coptic Solidarity’s 9th Annual Policy Day

Below you can watch the speeches given by US Legislators at Coptic Solidarity's 9th Annual Policy Day in the Capitol Visitor Center on June...

- July 12, 2018 0

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America ups the ante over Pastor Brunson’s detention

By WorldWatch Monitor - The American Charge d’Affaires in Ankara has said that Turkey’s continued detention of pastor Andrew Brunson on spying and terrorism-related charges...

- July 3, 2018 0

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U.S. Efforts to Protect Religious Minorities

By Knox Thames - DIPNOTE - U.S. Department of State Official BlogPROTECT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES: We will advocate on behalf of religious freedom...

- February 26, 2018 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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