Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 6, 2013
‘Atfīh is a center for 14 villages located near Helwan, South of Cairo, which is reportedly a stronghold for the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters. The MB uses mosque sermons to mobilize its supporters against Copts. Copts have been forcefully evicted from their houses, which were then...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 6, 2013
The Grand Imam, Dr. Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb, Shaykh of Al-Azhar stated that any events that are organized to ruin the celebrations of the 6th of October victory are against the teachings of Islam. He stated that the 6th of October commemorates a great victory in which the Egyptian army has bravely...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2013
Security forces have arrested the member of the Hazimūn group (group supportive of former presidential candidate Hazim Salāh Abū Ismāīl) for terrorizing the Copts in al-Marg by writing offensive threats on the walls of churches. Security forces have stormed defendant Ahmad Gamāl al-Din’s house and...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 12, 2013
Najuīb Jubrā’īl, the head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, stated that Copts are paying the price for participating in June 30th. This is through having more than 102 of their churches burnt (Husām Abū al-Makārim, et al, al-Wafd, Oct. 12, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2013
Three Congress members requested in an official letter that Secretary of State John Kerry take action in response to the recurrent attacks against Copts and their properties in Egypt as well as pushing the Egyptian governments to fulfill its responsibilities to protect its Coptic citizens (Muhammad...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2013
The Egyptian Union for Human rights Organization headed by Dr. Naguib Jubra’il drafted a memo addressed to Interim President Adly Mansur, Prime Minster Dr. Hāzim al-Biblāwī, and General ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisī. The organization issued a statement that included the demands in the memo. It included...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2013
Novelist, Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Maguīd, stated that he shall take part in the initiative organized by the Minister of Culture called “One Night for the Sake of Humanity”. The aim of this initiative is to mobilize artists to recreate the burnt Christian icons which were destroyed by terrorist attacks in...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2013
Pope Tawadros II has discussed in a meeting with the Family House delegation (Bayt al-‘Ā’ilah) convened in Papal headquarters the renovation of the attacked churches. Bishop Yuhanna Qulta, the Vice Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church, stated that the delegation proposed a number of business men...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 8, 2013
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services' (CEOSS) Forum for Intercultural Dialogue called for all movements represented by the various political forces to engage in serious, constructive dialogue by creating a suitable environment calling for the denunciation of violence and in which...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 2, 2012
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress who claimed that she was deceived into appearing in the film denigrating the Prophet Muhammad, which sparked large-scale outrage in the Arab and Muslim world, lost a lawsuit for the second time to force YouTube to remove the movie.