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...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2011
The Administrative Judiciary Court will give a verdict July 2 in a lawsuit filed to compel the minister of interior to install closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) on the fences of all churches and monasteries.
Lawyers Nabīl Ghubryāl and Sa'īd Fāyiz had sued the interior minister demanding him to...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 21, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Shenouda III on Monday (June 20, 2011) exchanged views with the heads of Egyptian churches recent political developments, preparations for the parliamentary and presidential elections, the drafting of a new Egyptian constitution and the unified draft law on construction...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2011
Lawyer Najīb Jabrā’īl said his client Kāmīliyā Shihātah will not appear in the June 14, 2011 session at the State Council’s Administrative Judiciary Court in a case filed to demand that her whereabouts are disclosed.
“I expect the court to turn down the case and close it once and for all on the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 31, 2011
An Egyptian military court sentenced two Coptic Christians to five years in jail for violence and trying to turn a factory into an unlicensed church, judicial sources said late on Sunday.
The two men, also convicted of possessing weapons, were arrested on May 18 after clashes between Christians and...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 2, 2011
A paid advertisement in al-Ahrām by Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III announced that Hānī 'Azīz is not his consultant, nor his spokesperson and does not represent him in any way.
That came as a result of attributing 'Azīz as the consultant of the Pope in a number of newspapers, which does not...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 2, 2011
Dr. Ahmad Mahmūd Karīmah, Jurisprudence Professor in the Azhar, said that a Muslim can marry a woman from the people of the book, and it is allowed for her guardian to decide if this marriage can be 'urfī for a period of time, according to the the general interest.
He added that when a woman...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 29, 2011
Presidential hopeful Mohamed El-Baradei said on Sunday that he was working in collaboration with a number of community forces to prepare a document on human rights for Egypt, laying out the fundamental human rights as they apply to all Egyptian citizens.
El-Baradei added that this document should...