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...]

Coptic Solidarity On Jan. 17, 2023, Presidential Decree #12 was announced in Egypt.  It lists 100 newly appointed vice-presidents of the State Council. Only one of them is a Copt, a member of Egypt’s native Christian demographic, which makes up 10-15% of the nation’s population. As Coptic Solidarity observed, “This is one more proof—if proof was needed—that severe and … [Read more...]

Coptic Solidarity Though unreported in Western languages, another instance of hostility for Christians and their churches in the Holy Land recently occurred. On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2022, a group of Palestinian “youth” assaulted a Coptic Christian church in Jaffa.  After hurling stones and empty glass bottles at St. Anthony's Church, they stormed it and savagely beat Fr. … [Read more...]