Dr. Abdel Halim Kandil, a prominent Egyptian journalist, expressed his rejection of a quota system for Copts and other religious minorities to ensure their representation in parliament that is being considered in…
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The constituent assembly amending Egypt’s suspended constitution has decided to introduce a quota for women, Coptic Christians and youths in parliament, sources said. The sources added that the assembly has formed a…
MPs raised concerns over the increasing persecution of Christians in the Middle East in a debate held in Westminster Hall this week. “Extreme suffering” Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, who led the debate,…
At the Sunday Angelus, Francis speaks of Jesus ‘discourse ‘ about the end of time” and in unscripted remarks recalls the “brothers and sisters in many parts of the world who are…
MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) — There is no sign of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims who flock here every November. No tattoo artists inscribing crosses on the wrists of…
Daily Telegraph report: Terrorist violence against Christians has put the very survival of the religion in some regions in peril. We cannot stand idle, says Baroness Warsi. There are parts of the…
What Happened to Christians in the Middle East this August? :: Gatestone Institute
Frustrated by their seeming lack of efficacy in creating a more moderate Egyptian constitution, Coptic Christians have threatened to walk out on a committee charged with creating the new document. Thus far,…
Cairo — Mariam Ashraf was an eight-year-old Coptic girl. On Oct. 20, she went with her family to the Church of the Virgin, in Cairo, for a relative’s wedding. She was thrilled…
Islamists tear down banners and spray insults against the patriarch, Copts and the Army on its walls. An attempt to storm the building is stopped. The church is a place of pilgrimage…