Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2013
After 33 months of suspended relations, Dr. Shawqī ‘Allām, the Grand Mufti of the Republic shall visit Pope Francis I, Pope of the Vatican. Participating in a peace conference, he will hand him a letter from Dr. Shaykh Ahmad Al-Tayyīb, Shaykh of Al-Azhar. The letter welcomes the resumption of...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 2013
Coptic activist, Sharīf Ramzī, stated that the intervention of the security forces in order to eliminate the terrorist groups and end the state of insecurity in places such as Diljā and Kirdāsah is necessary. He stated also that it is important to eliminate the sources of extremism through...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 2013
The prosecutor general, Judge Hishām Barakāt, has ordered the imprisonment of 51 defendants for 15 days pending investigations due to possibilities of their involvement in crimes of murder, arson, and terrorist activities in Diljā village, Minya governorate. The prosecution has also ordered the...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 20, 2013
In an interview by Al Wafd newspaper with Samīr Ghatās, the president of the Middle East Forum for Strategic Studies, he stated that the U.S. position pertaining to the Christians in Egypt is flawed with double standards. He said that previously it was not acceptable if the glass of a church was...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 20, 2013
About 150 families have left the village since the beginning of the events, according to the priest, and families continue to leave the village. He noted that even after the army and police forces have entered the village they are afraid of returning.
A family of five approached him one week ago...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 22, 2013
Pope Tawadros stated in an interview that the crisis committee in the Church has finalized assessing the losses of Copts as a result of the destruction of their property and that the Papal Headquarters will send to the dioceses and churches compensations for the damages. The Pope also stated that...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 22, 2013
The Suhag prosecution has ordered the jailing of two of the defendants who are accused in violent acts in Suhag City since the dispersal of the Rāb’ah and Nahdah sit-ins for 15 days pending investigation. The prosecution has accused them of inciting violence, burning Mar Girgis Church, resisting...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 22, 2013
Bishop Makarios went on to say, “If the extremists consider us infidels and we consider them terrorists, how can we serve them and how can we bring our perspectives closer?” Don’t hospitals and schools have a role to play in that? Isn’t working in the slum areas with the poor people, to treat them...
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 11, 2012
An unidentified author in Rose al-Yūsuf magazine denies that Islam permits the punishment of those who revert from Islam. After citing examples from the Qur'ān and Hadīth, the writer goes on to say: “those who espouse radical religious ideas deny the role of reason because they wish to impose their...
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 11, 2012
An unsigned article in al-Dustūr also attacks the forthcoming constitution: “after a period not exceeding 60 days the new ‘Brotherhoodite’ constitution will have been prepared … a clear declaration and announcement of the advent of the Brotherhood state principality.