Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr carries a page three headline reading: "Lawyer of Samallūt [Train] Incident Injured: Accused an Extremist, Committed Crime of own Volition."
The text says Ihab Ramzī, the lawyer for those injured in the Samallūt train shooting, announced that the accused, ‘Amir ‘Ashūr ‘Abd al-Zahir,...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2011
Al-Misrī al-Yawm reports that a summit of Arab leaders is being held at the resort town of Sharm al-Shaykh in order to officially reject Western interference in sovereign Egyptian affairs.
The report comes in light of recent statements made by the European Union, Vatican, and various other...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr says that the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee has turned down a challenge by the Giza Bishopric to reverse the decision to stop construction at the disputed church site.
The report says the previous meeting of the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee had postponed its decision so that the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2011
The Family Home initiative is officially underway, according to al-Misrī al-Yawm.
The paper reports that the Egypt Peace Society has convened its first conference related to the initiative, which aims to create a Muslim-Christian body to serve as a mouthpiece for both the Azhar and the Church.
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Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr quotes informed sources saying that a "sovereign party" has gained "confirmed information of the involvement of the Israeli Mossad in the [Two Saints Church] explosion in cooperation with Egyptian elements.”
The paper further says “Egyptian security authorities had spotted an Israeli...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2011
Pope Shenouda has postponed his visit to the injured victims of the New Year's Day bombing of the Church of the Two Saints, says al-Wafd.
According to the report, the postponement is necessary because the injured are currently housed in five separate hospitals.
The paper adds that Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2010
The article at hand revolves around the death sentence against Hammām al-Kamūnī, who killed six Coptic worshippers coming out of a church last Christmas, on January 6, 2010. While the article criticizes the court’s slow examination, it welcomes the harsh sentence, which sets an example of how...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 18, 2011
The meeting of the Egyptian-European Council was the scene of a heated debate between the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Shūrá Council and the Papal Nuncio in Cairo regarding Pope Benedict's recent statements regarding the protection of Middle Eastern Christians.
According to...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 12, 2010
President Husnī Mubārak appointed 10 MPs to the new elected parliament, including 7 Copts.
The appointees included one woman, 'Amīnah Shafīq, member of National Council for Women (NCW).
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 18, 2011
Religious weekly ‘Aqīdatī says in a page one report that it has learned from its sources in the Azhar that the preliminary makeup of the proposed "Family Home," which intends to serve as a joint mouthpiece for the Azhar and the church, includes few Azhar scholars.
Ninety percent of the proposed...