New York Times

The first anniversary of the protest movement that forced President Hosni Mubarak from power was observed in Egypt on Jan. 25.

National Review Online 
 

 
Coptic Orthodox cathedral

This year’s Christmas celebration by Egypt’s Orthodox Christians — on January 7, following the Julian calendar — was especially poignant. The Copts came together to reflect on a faith for which they had suffered much over the past year: church burnings, attacks on their persons and property, and, most traumatically, the Maspero massacre, last October, in which 27 Copts were killed by military troops in a barbaric attempt to disperse their protest against religious persecution.

Jihad Watch

The Obama administration supports "democracy" and "self determination" in the Middle East—two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to "mob-rule" and "Islamic radicalization," respectively.

(AINA) -- Two Copts were killed this afternoon in the village of Bahgourah, a suburb of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, after a Muslim racketeer opened fire on them for refusing to pay him extortion money.

(AINA) -- An Egyptian court has ordered a 16-year old Christian girl to be held in a state-owned care home, instead of returning her to her family, allegedly for expressing her wish to convert to Islam. She is to be held in state care until she reaches the age of 18.

The New York Times

 
Maikel Nabil Sanad
 
 
THE fate of one man can sometimes clarify the deepest flaws of a government and of the society it rules. Today in Egypt, on the anniversary of its uprising against Hosni Mubarak, that man is Maikel Nabil Sanad.

U.S.News & World Report

 
 
 
A little-noticed event gives a grim insight into what is really happening in the Middle East. The euphoria of the "Arab Spring," the instant Twitter-style transition from dictatorship to democracy, is seen for what it is: an illusion. Yes, the dictatorship of one kind has gone, but democracy in the sense we understand it is, shall we say, somewhat delayed.

Christian Solidarity International

On January 24, during his State of the Union Address, the president of the United States has a chance to expose the plight of religious minorities living in Muslim majority nations. Doing so would not merely shed light on one of the most ignored humanitarian crises of the 21st century; it would help alleviate it.