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Report Claims Cases Have "Escalated" Since Overthrow of Mubarak Regime WASHINGTON, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Christian Solidarity International (CSI) report released today calls on Egypt's Islamist government and the international community - especially the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - to investigate and take strong measures to prevent the disappearance, forced marriage and forced conversion to Islam of Coptic Christian women and girls. The report,...

Christian Solidarity International Seminar Series on the Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East WASHINGTON and BERN, Switzerland, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Historian Daniel Pipes, the President of the Middle East Forum, warned yesterday at a CSI seminar in Bern, Switzerland, that the persecution of minorities in the Islamic Middle East is "acquiring genocidal characteristics." The video of Pipes' 25-minute address on "Religious Minorities in an...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Coptic Solidarity strongly urges that the international community, through the United Nations Human Rights Council, appoint a special rapporteur for the Copts in Egypt, particularly in light of the recent evictions, property confiscations and attacks against Copts. The Copts are the Christians of Egypt who represent about 12% of Egypt's 84 million people. Over the past two weeks, a new and ugly campaign has been waged against...

A University of Cincinnati-based journal devoted to research on papyri from Egypt sheds light on job training, prayer, dream interpretation and belief in magic in the ancient world. Education, jobs, religion and even the cultural effects of bilingualism were as topical in the ancient world as they are today. All of these topics and more are featured in translations of ancient papyrus in the University of Cincinnati-based journal, “Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists,”...

NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Essam Abdallah, an Egyptian liberal intellectual, today stated in his article published on FamilySecurityMatters.org's website, that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Jordan now comprise what is becoming the greatest Islamist radical lobby ever to penetrate and infiltrate the White House, Congress, the State...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Coptic Solidarity condemns the attack by the Egyptian Armed Forces against the peaceful demonstration by the Coptic community in front of the State TV headquarters at Maspero, Cairo on Sunday, October 9, 2011. The demonstration was a peaceful protest of the recent burning of a church in Aswan, southern Egypt. The military forces' unprovoked aggression left 27 dead and over 300 persons wounded. Military Security officers and soldiers...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Coptic Solidarity warned today against the escalation of ugly hate speech and barbaric violence targeting the Copts of Egypt. The indifference of the ruling Junta and the current government is inexcusable, arguably complicit, and therefore forcibly condemnable. The Copts are the indigenous Christians of Egypt. They amount to 12-15% of the population, or about ten million. A surge of preposterous "debates" and proclamations is taking over...

NEW YORK, Jan. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC is horrified by the New Year's Day terrorist attack on a Coptic Church, killing at least 21 churchgoers, in Alexandria, Egypt. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO ) "Any and all such violent attacks on Christians, simply because of their faith, are despicable and demand universal condemnation," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Tragically, this is not the first such outrage in the region. Recently, we...

WASHINGTON, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eighteen Members of Congress, from both parties, expressed "concern over continuing reports of abductions, forced marriages, and exploitation of Coptic women and girls in Egypt". Writing on the 16th of April to Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, Director of the State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Office, the Members noted that they had received disturbing reports documenting "a criminal phenomenon that includes fraud, physical and sexual...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt - a pioneering report on human trafficking - was released today by Christian Solidarity International (CSI) and the Coptic Foundation for Human Rights. Researched in Egypt by American anti-trafficking specialist Michele Clark and Egyptian women's rights activist Nadia Ghaly, the report documents a criminal pattern involving deception, sexual violence,...