On June 1, an 18-year-old, middle-class Coptic Christian woman in Upper Egypt went to school as usual – but was then caught ...

Two Christian converts from Islam who were locked in an Egyptian prison and held for three years without trial have been ...

February 15, 2025, marks the tenth anniversary of Daesh (Islamic State, ISIL) releasing the video of the murder of 21 men on ...

Coptic Easter has come and gone. For arcane reasons, Copts, the Christian sect indigenous to Egypt, celebrate the holiday on a different date than western Christians, and last Sunday they did so ...

Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, who is originally from Yemen, was part of a Christian Facebook group that landed him in an Egyptian jail over alleged "terrorism activities." ...

Egyptian authorities have released Christian convert Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, who spent three years in prison for his Facebook ...

(photo credit: Courtesy Majed El-Shafie) Majed El-Shafie, a Muslim-born Christian reverend and human rights activist from Egypt who escaped a death sentence in his home country, spoke to The ...

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The Trump administration is upping the pressure on Cairo to accept the United States president s plan to resettle large parts ...

A Christian man was freed from an Egyptian prison last month after three years of detention over Facebook posts he shared among an online group of converts from Christianity to Islam. Abdulbaqi ...