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LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of Alexandria to which he had fled. FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home WHAT ABOUT THOSE DESCENDED FROM MILLIONS OF WHITE For centuries, the Crimean Khanate (vassal of the Ottoman Empire) raided the territory of Russia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. This was known in history as “harvesting of the steppe”. On average, the Crimean Tatars took into slavery 10 thousand people per year from these lands. From 1468 to 1694, about 2 million Russians, Ukrainiansand
MURDER MYSTERY INSIDE EGYPTIAN MONASTERY STIRS CONCERNS Murder mystery inside Egyptian monastery stirs concerns for monk on death row. It was one of Egypt’s most sensational murders: Deep in the desert, a bishop was allegedly bludgeoned with a metal pipe. Suspicion fell on two monks, turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation’s Coptic Christian priesthood. Then EGYPT: ARCHAIC AMENDMENTS TO PERSONAL STATUS LAW UNDERMINE by CIHRS – The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23rd and presented before Egypt’s House of Representatives pending approval, joining over 300 feminist organizations and public figures issuing statements renouncing the amendments. Civil society, including feminist and human rights TURKEY'S HAGIA SOPHIA: "IT'S LIKE IF SAINT PETER'S HAD By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow. For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Would youhave enjoyed it
HUNDREDS REPORTEDLY DEAD AFTER MASSACRE AT ORTHODOX CHURCH By CNA – At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, TONY BLAIR WARNS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THREAT IN WEST By Arab News – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that a new wave of religious intolerance is originating in the West, where groups like the Muslim Brotherhood operate freely, proving a threat back in the Arab world. The former Labour Party leader, who led the country for a decade from 1997, made HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is a modern civil rights movement dedicated to achieving equality for the Copts of Egypt. Get the latest news about Copts around the world. Be notified about opportunities to get involved. Check out Coptic Solidarity's press releases, articles, andupcoming events.
LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of Alexandria to which he had fled. FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home WHAT ABOUT THOSE DESCENDED FROM MILLIONS OF WHITE For centuries, the Crimean Khanate (vassal of the Ottoman Empire) raided the territory of Russia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. This was known in history as “harvesting of the steppe”. On average, the Crimean Tatars took into slavery 10 thousand people per year from these lands. From 1468 to 1694, about 2 million Russians, Ukrainiansand
MURDER MYSTERY INSIDE EGYPTIAN MONASTERY STIRS CONCERNS Murder mystery inside Egyptian monastery stirs concerns for monk on death row. It was one of Egypt’s most sensational murders: Deep in the desert, a bishop was allegedly bludgeoned with a metal pipe. Suspicion fell on two monks, turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation’s Coptic Christian priesthood. Then EGYPT: ARCHAIC AMENDMENTS TO PERSONAL STATUS LAW UNDERMINE by CIHRS – The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23rd and presented before Egypt’s House of Representatives pending approval, joining over 300 feminist organizations and public figures issuing statements renouncing the amendments. Civil society, including feminist and human rights TURKEY'S HAGIA SOPHIA: "IT'S LIKE IF SAINT PETER'S HAD By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow. For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Would youhave enjoyed it
HUNDREDS REPORTEDLY DEAD AFTER MASSACRE AT ORTHODOX CHURCH By CNA – At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, TONY BLAIR WARNS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THREAT IN WEST By Arab News – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that a new wave of religious intolerance is originating in the West, where groups like the Muslim Brotherhood operate freely, proving a threat back in the Arab world. The former Labour Party leader, who led the country for a decade from 1997, made COPTIC SOLIDARITY IS EXTREMELY CONCERNED BY THE CONTINUED By Coptic Solidarity – Christian News Wire – Coptic Solidarity expresses extreme concern by the continued unjust imprisonment of leading Coptic human rights activist, Ramy Kamel, urges his immediate release, and dropping of all fallacious charges against him as stated in our joint letter to President Biden. Kamel’s continued imprisonment—now in its 19th month—and similar DONATE - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Coptic Solidarity is a U.S. public charity organization under section 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions are tax- deductible under Section 170 of the IRS Tax Code. We have never received foreign or domestic government funds. When making charitable donations, give stock not cash. FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home COPTIC HERITAGE WEEK IN CANADA By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada has approved the designation of the last week of May as an annual Coptic Heritage Week in Canada. The approval was publicised in a statement by the Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver, and Western Canada; the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate; and the Diocese of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern WHAT ERDOĞAN’S ‘HERO’ SAYS ABOUT TURKEY By Raymond Ibrahim – Conquering Christians and turning their churches into mosques seems to be very much on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mind these days. Last Friday, June 4, he “spoke of the Turkish legacy of conquest and the conversion of the Hagia Sophia during a mosque opening in the city ofZonguldak
COPTIC SOLIDARITY MOURNS LOSS OF FOUNDING MEMBER, ATEF By Coptic Solidarity It is with deep sorrow that Coptic Solidarity announces the passing of founding Executive Committee Member, Mr. Atef Jacoub, on January 27, 2020, from COVID-19. Atef was an exemplary person. He was kind-hearted, giving without limits, and genuinely caring about others. He had a rare sense of duty and service. Hisshyness
HUNDREDS REPORTEDLY DEAD AFTER MASSACRE AT ORTHODOX CHURCH By CNA – At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, AN "UNIMAGINABLE NIGHTMARE": THE ABDUCTION, RAPE, AND By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute “One of the strategies they used to gain the girls’ trust was for the kidnapper, a Muslim man, to tell the Christian girl he loved her and wanted to convert to Christianity for her. They would start a romantic relationship until, one day, they would decide to ‘escape’ together. What the EGYPT: ARCHAIC AMENDMENTS TO PERSONAL STATUS LAW UNDERMINE by CIHRS – The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23 rd and presented before Egypt’s House of Representatives pending approval, joining over 300 feminist organizations and public figures issuing statements renouncing the amendments. Civil society, including feminist and human rights EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS THE VICTIMS OF DISCRIMINATION By Dr. Wagdy Loza, C. Psych This article will provide an outline of the discrimination and suffering that the Copts of Egypt have been enduring since the Arabs invaded their land around 641 A.D. to the current time. l. The estimated current percentage of Copts living in Egypt In 2012 the Egyptian government’s reported that HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is a modern civil rights movement dedicated to achieving equality for the Copts of Egypt. Get the latest news about Copts around the world. Be notified about opportunities to get involved. Check out Coptic Solidarity's press releases, articles, andupcoming events.
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT MAY GET POWER TO "DETERMINE By POMED – Egyptian parliament’s Legislative and Constitutional Committee met on June 7 to discuss a bill that could give the Supreme Constitutional Court the power to determine if international agreements and court decisions are applicable in Egypt, raising concerns that the country would no longer adhere to its human rights commitments. The draft law was controversial even within the EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE CENTURIES-OLD MONASTERY OVER By Anugrah Kumar – Christian Post – Egyptian authorities have confiscated land and property belonging to a Coptic Orthodox monastery founded in 360 AD because the monks have not been able to pay taxes since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report. Officials and police arrived at the Saint Macarius Monastery in LOUVRE PLANS BYZANTINE AND COPTIC ART DEPARTMENT By ARTNews – In one of her first moves as the newly appointed president of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars plans to formally launch a department devoted to Byzantine and Coptic art at the Paris museum. If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre’s current president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary, and a willingness to expand the PASTOR OF CHURCH ORDERED TO CLOSE IN ALGERIA SENTENCED TO By Morning Star News – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at his bookstore, sources said. Pastor Seighir’s Oratoire Church buildingin
COPTIC SOLIDARITY ANALYSIS OF STATE DEPARTMENT’S 2020 IRF By Coptic Solidarity – May 20, 2021 The US Department of State released its 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom on May 12, 2021. This annual report examines the state of religious freedom in every country except the US. Coptic Solidarity recognizes the additional challenges in creating this report due to the COVID-19 LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
COPTIC HERITAGE WEEK IN CANADA By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada has approved the designation of the last week of May as an annual Coptic Heritage Week in Canada. The approval was publicised in a statement by the Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver, and Western Canada; the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate; and the Diocese of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of Alexandria to which he had fled. FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is a modern civil rights movement dedicated to achieving equality for the Copts of Egypt. Get the latest news about Copts around the world. Be notified about opportunities to get involved. Check out Coptic Solidarity's press releases, articles, andupcoming events.
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT MAY GET POWER TO "DETERMINE By POMED – Egyptian parliament’s Legislative and Constitutional Committee met on June 7 to discuss a bill that could give the Supreme Constitutional Court the power to determine if international agreements and court decisions are applicable in Egypt, raising concerns that the country would no longer adhere to its human rights commitments. The draft law was controversial even within the EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE CENTURIES-OLD MONASTERY OVER By Anugrah Kumar – Christian Post – Egyptian authorities have confiscated land and property belonging to a Coptic Orthodox monastery founded in 360 AD because the monks have not been able to pay taxes since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report. Officials and police arrived at the Saint Macarius Monastery in LOUVRE PLANS BYZANTINE AND COPTIC ART DEPARTMENT By ARTNews – In one of her first moves as the newly appointed president of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars plans to formally launch a department devoted to Byzantine and Coptic art at the Paris museum. If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre’s current president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary, and a willingness to expand the PASTOR OF CHURCH ORDERED TO CLOSE IN ALGERIA SENTENCED TO By Morning Star News – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at his bookstore, sources said. Pastor Seighir’s Oratoire Church buildingin
COPTIC SOLIDARITY ANALYSIS OF STATE DEPARTMENT’S 2020 IRF By Coptic Solidarity – May 20, 2021 The US Department of State released its 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom on May 12, 2021. This annual report examines the state of religious freedom in every country except the US. Coptic Solidarity recognizes the additional challenges in creating this report due to the COVID-19 LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
COPTIC HERITAGE WEEK IN CANADA By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada has approved the designation of the last week of May as an annual Coptic Heritage Week in Canada. The approval was publicised in a statement by the Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver, and Western Canada; the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate; and the Diocese of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of Alexandria to which he had fled. FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home CONSTITUTIONAL COURT MAY GET POWER TO "DETERMINE By POMED – Egyptian parliament’s Legislative and Constitutional Committee met on June 7 to discuss a bill that could give the Supreme Constitutional Court the power to determine if international agreements and court decisions are applicable in Egypt, raising concerns that the country would no longer adhere to its human rights commitments. The draft law was controversial even within the NEWSROOM - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Lawyer Peter Ragheb arrested on charges of “joining a terrorist group, spreading false news and misusing social media”. May 18, 2021. Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an Read More. PASTOR OF CHURCH ORDERED TO CLOSE IN ALGERIA SENTENCED TO By Morning Star News – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at his bookstore, sources said. 1,500 CHRISTIANS KILLED IN NIGERIA THIS YEAR By: Christian Today – A staggering 1,470 Christians were killed by Islamist jihadists in Nigeria in the first four months of 2021, a non-profit in the country has said. The claim came in a report by the Intersociety for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law, which said that another 2,200 were abducted in the same time period. FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home MURDER MYSTERY INSIDE EGYPTIAN MONASTERY STIRS CONCERNS Murder mystery inside Egyptian monastery stirs concerns for monk on death row. It was one of Egypt’s most sensational murders: Deep in the desert, a bishop was allegedly bludgeoned with a metal pipe. Suspicion fell on two monks, turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation’s Coptic Christian priesthood. Then EGYPT PERMITS WOMEN TO WORK IN EGYPT’S STATE COUNCIL By Egyptian Streets –. In a meeting with the Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies on Wednesday, it was announced in a historic decision that Egyptian women will be allowed to work in the State Council and the Public Prosecution as of the first of October of this year, Spokesman of the Presidency said in a statement. HISHAM HEIKAL: COUNSELOR FACING PUNITIVE MEASURES BY By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity urges the Egyptian Government to immediately end punitive measures against former Counselor Hisham Heikal which are a direct result of him filing a complaint regarding discrimination against a Coptic colleague. The Egyptian government’s reprisals against Mr. Heikal have set a clear precedent that those who dare speak out against AN "UNIMAGINABLE NIGHTMARE": THE ABDUCTION, RAPE, AND By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute “One of the strategies they used to gain the girls’ trust was for the kidnapper, a Muslim man, to tell the Christian girl he loved her and wanted to convert to Christianity for her. They would start a romantic relationship until, one day, they would decide to ‘escape’ together. What the HUNDREDS REPORTEDLY DEAD AFTER MASSACRE AT ORTHODOX CHURCH By CNA – At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is a modern civil rights movement dedicated to achieving equality for the Copts of Egypt. Get the latest news about Copts around the world. Be notified about opportunities to get involved. Check out Coptic Solidarity's press releases, articles, andupcoming events.
EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE CENTURIES-OLD MONASTERY OVER By Anugrah Kumar – Christian Post – Egyptian authorities have confiscated land and property belonging to a Coptic Orthodox monastery founded in 360 AD because the monks have not been able to pay taxes since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report. Officials and police arrived at the Saint Macarius Monastery in PASTOR OF CHURCH ORDERED TO CLOSE IN ALGERIA SENTENCED TO By Morning Star News – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at his bookstore, sources said. Pastor Seighir’s Oratoire Church buildingin
LOUVRE PLANS BYZANTINE AND COPTIC ART DEPARTMENT By ARTNews – In one of her first moves as the newly appointed president of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars plans to formally launch a department devoted to Byzantine and Coptic art at the Paris museum. If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre’s current president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary, and a willingness to expand the COPTIC SOLIDARITY ANALYSIS OF STATE DEPARTMENT’S 2020 IRF By Coptic Solidarity – May 20, 2021 The US Department of State released its 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom on May 12, 2021. This annual report examines the state of religious freedom in every country except the US. Coptic Solidarity recognizes the additional challenges in creating this report due to the COVID-19 DONATE - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Coptic Solidarity is a U.S. public charity organization under section 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions are tax- deductible under Section 170 of the IRS Tax Code. We have never received foreign or domestic government funds. When making charitable donations, give stock not cash. LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
COPTIC HERITAGE WEEK IN CANADA By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada has approved the designation of the last week of May as an annual Coptic Heritage Week in Canada. The approval was publicised in a statement by the Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver, and Western Canada; the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate; and the Diocese of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of Alexandria to which he had fled. TURKEY'S HAGIA SOPHIA: "IT'S LIKE IF SAINT PETER'S HAD By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow. For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Would youhave enjoyed it
HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is a modern civil rights movement dedicated to achieving equality for the Copts of Egypt. Get the latest news about Copts around the world. Be notified about opportunities to get involved. Check out Coptic Solidarity's press releases, articles, andupcoming events.
EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE CENTURIES-OLD MONASTERY OVER By Anugrah Kumar – Christian Post – Egyptian authorities have confiscated land and property belonging to a Coptic Orthodox monastery founded in 360 AD because the monks have not been able to pay taxes since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report. Officials and police arrived at the Saint Macarius Monastery in PASTOR OF CHURCH ORDERED TO CLOSE IN ALGERIA SENTENCED TO By Morning Star News – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at his bookstore, sources said. Pastor Seighir’s Oratoire Church buildingin
LOUVRE PLANS BYZANTINE AND COPTIC ART DEPARTMENT By ARTNews – In one of her first moves as the newly appointed president of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars plans to formally launch a department devoted to Byzantine and Coptic art at the Paris museum. If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre’s current president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary, and a willingness to expand the COPTIC SOLIDARITY ANALYSIS OF STATE DEPARTMENT’S 2020 IRF By Coptic Solidarity – May 20, 2021 The US Department of State released its 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom on May 12, 2021. This annual report examines the state of religious freedom in every country except the US. Coptic Solidarity recognizes the additional challenges in creating this report due to the COVID-19 DONATE - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Coptic Solidarity is a U.S. public charity organization under section 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions are tax- deductible under Section 170 of the IRS Tax Code. We have never received foreign or domestic government funds. When making charitable donations, give stock not cash. LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
COPTIC HERITAGE WEEK IN CANADA By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada has approved the designation of the last week of May as an annual Coptic Heritage Week in Canada. The approval was publicised in a statement by the Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver, and Western Canada; the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate; and the Diocese of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of Alexandria to which he had fled. TURKEY'S HAGIA SOPHIA: "IT'S LIKE IF SAINT PETER'S HAD By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow. For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Would youhave enjoyed it
EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE CENTURIES-OLD MONASTERY OVER By Anugrah Kumar – Christian Post – Egyptian authorities have confiscated land and property belonging to a Coptic Orthodox monastery founded in 360 AD because the monks have not been able to pay taxes since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report. Officials and police arrived at the Saint Macarius Monastery in PASTOR OF CHURCH ORDERED TO CLOSE IN ALGERIA SENTENCED TO By Morning Star News – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at his bookstore, sources said. LOUVRE PLANS BYZANTINE AND COPTIC ART DEPARTMENT By ARTNews – In one of her first moves as the newly appointed president of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars plans to formally launch a department devoted to Byzantine and Coptic art at the Paris museum. If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre’s current president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary, and a willingness to expand the COPTIC SOLIDARITY ANALYSIS OF STATE DEPARTMENT’S 2020 IRF By Coptic Solidarity – May 20, 2021 The US Department of State released its 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom on May 12, 2021. This annual report examines the state of religious freedom in every country except the US. Coptic Solidarity recognizes the additional challenges in creating this report due to the COVID-19 FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home COPTIC SOLIDARITY MOURNS LOSS OF FOUNDING MEMBER, ATEF By Coptic Solidarity It is with deep sorrow that Coptic Solidarity announces the passing of founding Executive Committee Member, Mr. Atef Jacoub, on January 27, 2020, from COVID-19. Atef was an exemplary person. He was kind-hearted, giving without limits, and genuinely caring about others. He had a rare sense of duty and service. Hisshyness
HISHAM HEIKAL: COUNSELOR FACING PUNITIVE MEASURES BY By Coptic Solidarity – Coptic Solidarity urges the Egyptian Government to immediately end punitive measures against former Counselor Hisham Heikal which are a direct result of him filing a complaint regarding discrimination against a Coptic colleague. The Egyptian government’s reprisals against Mr. Heikal have set a clear precedent that those who dare speak out against WHAT ABOUT THOSE DESCENDED FROM MILLIONS OF WHITE For centuries, the Crimean Khanate (vassal of the Ottoman Empire) raided the territory of Russia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. This was known in history as “harvesting of the steppe”. On average, the Crimean Tatars took into slavery 10 thousand people per year from these lands. From 1468 to 1694, about 2 million Russians, Ukrainiansand
HUNDREDS REPORTEDLY DEAD AFTER MASSACRE AT ORTHODOX CHURCH By CNA – At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, ANCIENT EGYPT GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land of the pyramids, is the setting for many of the best known tales from the Old Testament. Through Moses, God punishes the Egyptian pharaoh for holding the Hebrew HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is an organization seeking to help minorities, particularly the Copts, of Egypt and we support those in Egypt working for democracy, freedom, and the protection of the fundamental rights of all Egyptian citizens KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME By Watani – A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
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MURDER MYSTERY INSIDE EGYPTIAN MONASTERY STIRS CONCERNS By Sudarsan Raghavan – The Washington Post – It was one of Egypt’s most sensational murders: Deep in the desert, a bishop was allegedly bludgeoned with a metal pipe. Suspicion fell on two monks, turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation’s Coptic Christian priesthood. Then, something more predictable happened. Egyptian security agents interrogated EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS THE VICTIMS OF DISCRIMINATIONCOPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIACOPTIC EGYPTIAN HISTORYWHO ARE THE COPTICCHRISTIANS
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WHO'S ATTACKING PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS? By Bassam Tawil – Gatestone Institute – The plight of Christians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is one that is often ignored by the international community and foreign journalists based in the Middle East. It is worth noting that that the Christian population in the THE NEW WAR AGAINST AFRICA’S CHRISTIANS By Bernard-Henri Lévy – The Wall Street Journal – Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe, more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria. A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world ANCIENT EGYPT GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land of the pyramids, is the setting for many of the best known tales from the Old Testament. Through Moses, God punishes the Egyptian pharaoh for holding the Hebrew HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is an organization seeking to help minorities, particularly the Copts, of Egypt and we support those in Egypt working for democracy, freedom, and the protection of the fundamental rights of all Egyptian citizens KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME By Watani – A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
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MURDER MYSTERY INSIDE EGYPTIAN MONASTERY STIRS CONCERNS By Sudarsan Raghavan – The Washington Post – It was one of Egypt’s most sensational murders: Deep in the desert, a bishop was allegedly bludgeoned with a metal pipe. Suspicion fell on two monks, turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation’s Coptic Christian priesthood. Then, something more predictable happened. Egyptian security agents interrogated EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS THE VICTIMS OF DISCRIMINATIONCOPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIACOPTIC EGYPTIAN HISTORYWHO ARE THE COPTICCHRISTIANS
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WHO'S ATTACKING PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS? By Bassam Tawil – Gatestone Institute – The plight of Christians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is one that is often ignored by the international community and foreign journalists based in the Middle East. It is worth noting that that the Christian population in the THE NEW WAR AGAINST AFRICA’S CHRISTIANS By Bernard-Henri Lévy – The Wall Street Journal – Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe, more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria. A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world ANCIENT EGYPT GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land of the pyramids, is the setting for many of the best known tales from the Old Testament. Through Moses, God punishes the Egyptian pharaoh for holding the Hebrew NEWSROOM - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Egyptian Islamic Scholar Hazem Shouman: Allah Promised The Total Destruction Of The Jews; The Faces Of The Jews Will Be Disfigured From What The Muslim Will Do To Them COPTIC HERITAGE WEEK IN CANADA By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada has approved the designation of the last week of May as an annual Coptic Heritage Week in Canada. The approval was publicised in a statement by the Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver, and Western Canada; the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate; and the Diocese of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern CONTACT US - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Email: copt advocacy@copticsolidarity.org. Address: P.O. Box 1450 Centreville, VA 20122, USA. Details: Established in Virginia as a public charity organization under section 501 (C)(3) of FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home HUNDREDS REPORTEDLY DEAD AFTER MASSACRE AT ORTHODOX CHURCH By CNA – At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, ANCIENT EGYPT GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land of the pyramids, is the setting for many of the best known tales from the Old Testament. Through Moses, God punishes the Egyptian pharaoh for holding the Hebrew FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF COPTS: NO END IN SIGHT? By Nader Shukry – Watani – It is a very sad fact that, despite all the changes in recent years, the forced displacement of Copts in Egypt continues to be a form of collective punishment inflicted on Coptic communities for real or imagined crimes. Copts are THE REVIVAL OF SLAVERY BEFORE THE HOUR Finally, a number of contemporary scholars have mentioned that the desertion of slavery had led to an increase in fāhishah (adultery, fornication, etc.), because the shar’ī alternative to marriage is not available, so a man who cannot afford marriage to a free woman finds himself surrounded by temptation towards sin. ISLAMIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACE IN EGYPT By Dr. William Weessa – Presented at Coptic Solidarity’s 8th Annual Conference Washington DC June June 16, 2017 Many philosophers dealt with Public Space definition, starting from Aristotle to the German philosopher Habermas, and others. but there is no room here to review all definitions. What I prefer the most is Habermas’ ideawhich links
WHAT’S BEHIND THE TURKISH “SEIZURE” OF CHURCH PROPERTIES By John Burger – Aleteia – 1600-year-old monastery at center of ongoing dispute Turkey’s appropriation of Syriac Church property represents a reversal from Ankara’s policies towards Christian minorities, says an expert on Turkey. Those policies have heretofore been “considerably more generous than towards Jews, (non-Sunni) Alevis, and atheists,” said Lisel Hintz, Visiting Assistant HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is an organization seeking to help minorities, particularly the Copts, of Egypt and we support those in Egypt working for democracy, freedom, and the protection of the fundamental rights of all Egyptian citizens KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME By Watani – A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
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MURDER MYSTERY INSIDE EGYPTIAN MONASTERY STIRS CONCERNS By Sudarsan Raghavan – The Washington Post – It was one of Egypt’s most sensational murders: Deep in the desert, a bishop was allegedly bludgeoned with a metal pipe. Suspicion fell on two monks, turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation’s Coptic Christian priesthood. Then, something more predictable happened. Egyptian security agents interrogated TURKEY'S HAGIA SOPHIA: "IT'S LIKE IF SAINT PETER'S HAD By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow. For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Would youhave enjoyed it
EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS THE VICTIMS OF DISCRIMINATIONCOPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIACOPTIC EGYPTIAN HISTORYWHO ARE THE COPTICCHRISTIANS
By Dr. Wagdy Loza, C. Psych This article will provide an outline of the discrimination and suffering that the Copts of Egypt have been enduring since the Arabs invaded their land around 641 A.D. to the current time. l. The estimated current percentage of Copts living in Egypt In 2012 the Egyptian government’s reported that WHO'S ATTACKING PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS? By Bassam Tawil – Gatestone Institute – The plight of Christians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is one that is often ignored by the international community and foreign journalists based in the Middle East. It is worth noting that that the Christian population in the THE NEW WAR AGAINST AFRICA’S CHRISTIANS By Bernard-Henri Lévy – The Wall Street Journal – Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe, more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria. A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world ANCIENT EGYPT GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land of the pyramids, is the setting for many of the best known tales from the Old Testament. Through Moses, God punishes the Egyptian pharaoh for holding the Hebrew HOME - COPTIC SOLIDARITYADVOCACYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDDONATENEWSROOMEVENTS Coptic Solidarity is an organization seeking to help minorities, particularly the Copts, of Egypt and we support those in Egypt working for democracy, freedom, and the protection of the fundamental rights of all Egyptian citizens KILLER OF COPTIC WOMAN IN BENI MAZAR CONFESSES CRIME By Watani – A tuk tuk driver who earlier this month murdered the Coptic woman Mariam Moussa and her young son in Beni Mazar, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, has confessed his crime. The police had caught the killer, who goes by the name Abu-Muhammad al-Harami, on 5 April in the northern city of LAWYER PETER RAGHEB ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF "JOINING A Coptic solidarity – On April 4, 2021, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported an investigation by the State Security Prosecution with “Peter Nashaat Na`im Ragheb” (lawyer – 31 years old) pending the case 65 for the year 2021 State Security. The prosecution charged him with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false newsand misusing social
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MURDER MYSTERY INSIDE EGYPTIAN MONASTERY STIRS CONCERNS By Sudarsan Raghavan – The Washington Post – It was one of Egypt’s most sensational murders: Deep in the desert, a bishop was allegedly bludgeoned with a metal pipe. Suspicion fell on two monks, turning a spotlight on a cloistered world of intrigue within the nation’s Coptic Christian priesthood. Then, something more predictable happened. Egyptian security agents interrogated TURKEY'S HAGIA SOPHIA: "IT'S LIKE IF SAINT PETER'S HAD By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow. For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Would youhave enjoyed it
EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS THE VICTIMS OF DISCRIMINATIONCOPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIACOPTIC EGYPTIAN HISTORYWHO ARE THE COPTICCHRISTIANS
By Dr. Wagdy Loza, C. Psych This article will provide an outline of the discrimination and suffering that the Copts of Egypt have been enduring since the Arabs invaded their land around 641 A.D. to the current time. l. The estimated current percentage of Copts living in Egypt In 2012 the Egyptian government’s reported that WHO'S ATTACKING PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS? By Bassam Tawil – Gatestone Institute – The plight of Christians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is one that is often ignored by the international community and foreign journalists based in the Middle East. It is worth noting that that the Christian population in the THE NEW WAR AGAINST AFRICA’S CHRISTIANS By Bernard-Henri Lévy – The Wall Street Journal – Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe, more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria. A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world ANCIENT EGYPT GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land of the pyramids, is the setting for many of the best known tales from the Old Testament. Through Moses, God punishes the Egyptian pharaoh for holding the Hebrew NEWSROOM - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Egyptian Islamic Scholar Hazem Shouman: Allah Promised The Total Destruction Of The Jews; The Faces Of The Jews Will Be Disfigured From What The Muslim Will Do To Them COPTIC HERITAGE WEEK IN CANADA By Watani – The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada has approved the designation of the last week of May as an annual Coptic Heritage Week in Canada. The approval was publicised in a statement by the Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver, and Western Canada; the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate; and the Diocese of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern CONTACT US - COPTIC SOLIDARITY Email: copt advocacy@copticsolidarity.org. Address: P.O. Box 1450 Centreville, VA 20122, USA. Details: Established in Virginia as a public charity organization under section 501 (C)(3) of FROM GOLGOTHA TO BIR AL-ABD: “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR By: Youssef Sidhom – Watani – It is the will of our Heavenly Father that, as we live the joy of the Resurrection of Christ this year, we carry in our hearts the pain of the brutal martyrdom of the 62-year-old Copt Nabil Habashi Salama. Mr Salama was kidnapped in November 2020 from his home HUNDREDS REPORTEDLY DEAD AFTER MASSACRE AT ORTHODOX CHURCH By CNA – At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, ANCIENT EGYPT GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST By José Pérez-Accino – National Geographic – Christianity’s origins are found in many places, including Egypt, where Coptic Christianity flourished shortly after the death of Jesus. Egypt, land of the pyramids, is the setting for many of the best known tales from the Old Testament. Through Moses, God punishes the Egyptian pharaoh for holding the Hebrew FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF COPTS: NO END IN SIGHT? By Nader Shukry – Watani – It is a very sad fact that, despite all the changes in recent years, the forced displacement of Copts in Egypt continues to be a form of collective punishment inflicted on Coptic communities for real or imagined crimes. Copts are THE REVIVAL OF SLAVERY BEFORE THE HOUR Finally, a number of contemporary scholars have mentioned that the desertion of slavery had led to an increase in fāhishah (adultery, fornication, etc.), because the shar’ī alternative to marriage is not available, so a man who cannot afford marriage to a free woman finds himself surrounded by temptation towards sin. ISLAMIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACE IN EGYPT By Dr. William Weessa – Presented at Coptic Solidarity’s 8th Annual Conference Washington DC June June 16, 2017 Many philosophers dealt with Public Space definition, starting from Aristotle to the German philosopher Habermas, and others. but there is no room here to review all definitions. What I prefer the most is Habermas’ ideawhich links
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