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An Assessment by Coptic Solidarity: State Department 2017 Annual International Religious Freedom Report on Egypt

By Coptic Solidarity - On May 2018, the State Department issued its annual report on International Religious Freedom, which documents the state of religious freedom in 200...

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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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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

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US Report Says Egypt Falls Short on Rights

By The Associated Press (APNewsBreak) --Egypt is failing to protect free speech and its minorities, investigate abuses by its forces or grant U.S. monitors...

- September 20, 2017 0

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Coptic Solidarity Analysis and Recommendations on Egypt Chapter of State Department Report

By PRNeswire -Washington, DC, August 21, 2017/Coptic Solidarity applauds the U.S. government for its continued attention to international religious freedom (IRF) through the publication...

- August 21, 2017 0

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Coptic Solidarity Analysis and Recommendations on Newly Released Egypt Chapter of State Department International Religious Freedom Report

August 20, 2017On August 15, 2017, the State Department issued its annual report on International Religious Freedom, which documents the state of religious freedom...

- August 20, 2017 0

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Tillerson Blasts ISIS for Genocide in Religious Freedom Report

By Robbie Gramer - Foreign PolicySecretary of State Rex Tillerson accused the Islamic State of genocide during the release of an annual State Dept. report...

- August 16, 2017 0

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U.S. State Department Issues Annual Egypt Country Report on Terrorism

By POMEDOn Wednesday, the United States Department of State released its 2016 “Country Reports on Terrorism.” The report said that terrorism across the world...

- July 21, 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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