Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 3, 2011
Ramsīs al-Najār, lawyer and the individual responsible for the file of closed churches, said that there are 58 requests to open Coptic Orthodox churches presently before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and only a few numbers have been opened.
Al-Najār said that there is a church in...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 4, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood’s new Freedom and Justice Party criticized Coptic business mogul Naguib Sawiris, accusing him of affiliation with the former regime.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 4, 2011
The writer [not mentioned] of this article criticizes Eng. Najīb Sawirus, Egyptian Coptic businessman, for the cartoons he put as a profile on his Twitter page. He states that because Sawiris is wealthy he can get away of anything he does and just apologize.
He added that Sawirus had reached a...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 4, 2011
The administrative court issued a verdict that gave the right to the re-converters to Christianity to prove their religion in their National ID card and birth certificates. The court affirmed the necessity of applying the law to similar cases.
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Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 29, 2011
The Egyptian authorities must immediately launch an independent and impartial investigation into the conduct of security forces at demonstrations, Amnesty International said amid continuing protests in central Cairo.
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 30, 2011
Al-Tahrīr Square, once the pride and joy of each and every Egyptian, was the scene of fresh bloody confrontations between police forces and hundreds of knife-wielding and stone-pelting demonstrators on Tuesday and Wednesday (June 28 and June 29, 2011).
Dozens on either side were wounded in the...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Irshād (Guidance) Office is organizing the first public meeting of the group's female members under the slogan "Women...from Revolution to Renaissance," on Saturday, July 2, 2011, at the Azhar University.
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III on Wednesday received Maj. General Sāmī Diyāb, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) at the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abāsīyah.
The meeting discussed current developments in Egypt as well as the draft law on the...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2011
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) underlined commitment to attaining the ambitions of the Egyptian people in order to establish a civil state based on democracy where freedom and social justice are achieved.
SCAF is backing and following up the work of the different security agencies...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2011
Counselor Hishām Badawī, First Attorney General for the Supreme State Security Prosecution, ordered on Tuesday (June 21, 2011) the release of 'Abīr Fakhrī, the woman who sparked the sectarian unrest in the impoverished district of Imbābah.
Security authorities had arrested Fakhrī, who was referred...