Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2012
Also in Asiut, a court sentenced a Coptic secondary student, Jamāl ‘Abduh Mas’ūd, who sparked sectarian trouble in the Upper Egyptian governorate, to three years in jail for disdaining Islam and publishing photos and images insulting religions. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2012
Also in Asiut, a court sentenced a Coptic secondary student, Jamāl ‘Abduh Mas’ūd, who sparked sectarian trouble in the Upper Egyptian governorate, to three years in jail for disdaining Islam and publishing photos and images insulting religions. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2012
The Asiut Court of Appeal upheld a six-year imprisonment sentence against Copt Makārim Dīyāb Sa’īd, the Secretary of al-Dayr al-Jabrāwī Preparatory School in Abnūb, after he was found guilty of slandering the Prophet Muhammad. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2012
Also in Asiut, a court sentenced a Coptic secondary student, Jamāl ‘Abduh Mas’ūd, who sparked sectarian trouble in the Upper Egyptian governorate, to three years in jail for disdaining Islam and publishing photos and images insulting religions. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2012
The Asiut Court of Appeal upheld a six-year imprisonment sentence against Copt Makārim Dīyāb Sa’īd, the Secretary of al-Dayr al-Jabrāwī Preparatory School in Abnūb, after he was found guilty of slandering the Prophet Muhammad. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 22, 2012
The Cairo Criminal Court canceled a decision barring Priest Philopater Jamīl from leaving Egypt over charges pressed against him of involvement in incitation in the October 9 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero, which left dozens killed or wounded. [Author Not Mentioned, ...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 22, 2012
The Cairo Criminal Court canceled a decision barring Priest Philopater Jamīl from leaving Egypt over charges pressed against him of involvement in incitation in the October 9 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero, which left dozens killed or wounded. [Author Not Mentioned, ...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 11, 2012
Majdī Shenouda, the representative of the church on the panel, said the ruling has offered a sigh of relief for the Egyptian street and was in line with the law.
He called for re-forming the assembly that should include at least five constitutional law experts.
Asked whether the church, which had...
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 13, 2012
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has emphatically stressed equality in rights and duties. Copts pay their taxes like any other citizen. I would not be exaggerating if I said one-third of the tax duties of the state are contributed by Copts. Coptic businessmen like Najīb Sawirus and Munīr...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 19, 2012
He noted the Holy Synod confirmed that women will be allowed for the first time to vote in the papal chair elections, adding the addition of expatriate Copts to the election lists just like Copts at home is being considered at present. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 19, p. 3] Read text in...