Coptic Solidarity Yet another Coptic Christian church has been consumed by flames (images follow).  On Mar. 29, 2023, a massive fire broke out in the Church of the Virgin, Archangel Michael, Abu Sefein and Saint Anba Karas in Assyut, Egypt. Sections of it were reportedly “ancient.” According to a statement from the diocese, "The fire occurred around 4 a.m. and completely … [Read more...]

Coptic Solidarity A new Arabic language report underscores the difficulties Egypt’s Coptic Christians continue to experience in their attempts to reopen many of their currently governmentally-closed churches—despite President Sisi’s supposed commitment to “consolidate [the concept of] citizenship and affirm the principle of freedom of worship” in Muslim-majority Egypt. The … [Read more...]

Coptic Solidarity On Mar. 18, 2023, an Egyptian administrative court ruled that it did not have the “jurisdiction” to interfere with the state’s decision to strip a child from his adoptive Christian family, place him in an orphanage, and forcibly convert him to Islam. Reacting to this development, Adel Guindy, co-founder of Coptic Solidarity and author of A Sword Over the … [Read more...]

Coptic Solidarity  Islamic terrorists-cum-criminals kidnapped six more Coptic Christians in Libya over the weekend. In an audio recording, the terrorists demanded a 90,000 dinar (nearly 20,000 USD) ransom payment for the release of the Christians, who were reported as languishing in prison cells without food or water.  All six Copts are from the village of al-Haraja, … [Read more...]

Gatestone Institute Islamic “justice”—which usually finds Muslims in the right, and non-Muslims in the wrong—or rather, tribal justice, has, once again, prevailed in Egypt. Not only have the Muslim men who stripped naked and publicly abused an elderly Christian grandmother been acquitted in a court of law; now she is the one facing serious legal charges to compensate her … [Read more...]