Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2013
Security forces have successfully completed a day-long campaign to bring back the goods that had been stolen from departments on August 14. They arrested 27 persons who are suspected of infringement in police departments and houses of worship (Author not mentioned, al-Aqbāt al-Yawm, Sept. 11). ...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2013
Copts for Egypt Movement has met the Minister of Administrative Development, Hānī Mahmūd al-Garīrī, yesterday evening (Tuesday) to discuss a number of issues that the movement has put up for discussion. Hānī al-Gazīrī told al-Yawm al-Sābi' that he has handed forward a proposal to the Minister that...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2013
Bishop Paul, Church representative in the Constitutent Assembly has critcized the last Constitutent Assembly, which prepared the 2012 Constitution. He said, “Some members of that assembly have claimed that the Church had agreed upon the provisions. In fact it was just one person from all churches...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2013
Crimes against Copts go unpunished; the perpetrators are unknown while the pain remains. When a sad event takes place against Copts in Egypt denouncements start and popular and formal apologies are presented. Soon after all of the statements boil to nothing. Policies that strengthen impunity in...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2013
Pope Tawadros II has visited the injured victims of the al-Warrāq Church attack inside the Military Hospital in Ma’ādi. He stated, “Muslims and Christians live in love. May God project Egypt” (Author not mentioned, al-Watan, Oct. 25, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2013
This was denied in a separate article in al-Wafd, which stated that tens of Copts, who are members of the Maspero Youth Union have demonstrated in front of the Council of Ministers in protest against the attack. A delegation of the movement met with Dr. Hāzim al-Biblāwī, the Prime Minister, to...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 22, 2013
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Dār al-Iftā’ is taking part in an international conference on the relationship between religion and the media that will be held in the headquarters of the German Parliament tomorrow (October...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 22, 2013
According to an article in al-Tahrir, targeting of Copts by armed groups aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood aims to confuse the policy makers and to show the failure of state security. It also allows for a bargaining chip to release the Muslim Brotherhood leaders. It is not important who...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 22, 2013
Najuīb Jubra’īl, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, has submitted a complaint to the general prosecutor requesting to dismiss Prime Minister Hāzim al-Biblāwī and Minister of Interior, General Muhammad Ibrahīm, due to their oversight in applying the emergency laws which led to...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 22, 2013
Dr. Hāzim al-Biblāwī has given his condolences to Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros for victims of the attack on the Church of Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael in al-Warrāq (Ahmad Abdil ‘Azīm, Wā’il Fāyiz and Muhammd Abū ‘Imayrah, al-Watan, Oct. 22, p. 6). Read original text in Arabic.