Coptic Solidarity A Coptic Christian man was recently murdered, hacked to pieces, and dumped into a canal in the Amiriya district of Cairo. On September 29, Mina Musa, 21, left his family home in Minya for a new job in Cairo.  He was responding to an advertisement on social media to assist an elderly person in Cairo, for a generous salary, along with broader networking … [Read more...]

Coptic Solidarity Islamic schizophrenia—or merely two-facedness—is making the news again, in Egypt. At a time when President Sisi and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayeb, are publicly claiming, especially to the West, that Islam does not prohibit the construction of churches, an Arabic language book calling for the destruction of churches was recently exposed … [Read more...]

Coptic Solidarity On Saturday night, August 31, 2024, a massive fire “broke out” in the Coptic Diocese of Beni Suef in Egypt, consuming all of the five-story Christian building’s contents—reception halls, offices, libraries, precious books, furniture, and computers—as well as more than 300 wooden benches belonging to the adjacent Church of the Virgin Mary, which were located … [Read more...]

Coptic Solidarity Although initially kept quiet and suppressed, the ongoing cries of a Coptic Christian family and supportive community concerning the latest Christian girl to “disappear” recently made the rounds on Arabic social media. Earlier this month, Christina Karim Aziz, a 20-year-old Christian girl, disappeared off the streets of al-Fatah Center, in Assyut, where she … [Read more...]