Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 7, 2011
Copts involved in the dog battle are planning a protest march in front of the Ministry of Justice for September 15, continuing with their demands for a law on civil marriage, as well requesting resignations from the Orthodox denomination sitting on the clerical council.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 17, 2011
President of the Egyptian Democratic Union, Najīb Jubrā'īl, has informed Human Rights that the Ministry of Interior Affairs has agreed to amend returning Christians’ Identification Cards, affirming their conversion back into the religion.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 30, 2011
Dr. Najīb Jabrā’īl Mīkhā’īl, Coptic lawyer and Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organizations (EUHRO), called on the church to ordain new bishops for the clerical council, and said these bishops should not sit for more than five years in the council.
He added that the church needs to...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 31, 2011
Coptic activists and organizations say that they refuse to transform the Egyptian revolution into a religious one, criticizing the Islamists that dominated Tahrīr Square on Friday. Speaking to Al-Misrī Al-Yawm on Saturday, the activists voiced their intentions to fight for a civil state that...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 26, 2011
Najīb Jabrā’īl, a Coptic lawyer and the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, met on Wednesday morning to discuss the deteriorating situation of the Clerical Council, and the increasing number of cases it is receiving – in its...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 21, 2011
Najīb Ghubryāl Najīb, President of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, has submitted a report to the public prosecutor, claiming that the President of the Islamic Center of Enlightenment was disdainful towards other religions.
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 8, 2011
The Maspero Youth Union announced their participation in Friday’s Revolution First, which will be via a march from Shubrā after Friday prayers to Tahrīr Square, where they will stage a sit-in.
The spokesman for the union, Rāmī Kāmil, announced their participation in Friday’s Revolution First...
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 19, 2011
Human Rights First organization said that the unified draft law on the construction of places of worship has made both Muslim and Christian leaders unhappy, rejecting the draft as restrictive and discriminatory to their respective religions.
If the law is passed without serious revisions, the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2011
Lawyer Najīb Jabrā’īl said his client Kāmīliyā Shihātah will not appear in the June 14, 2011 session at the State Council’s Administrative Judiciary Court in a case filed to demand that her whereabouts are disclosed.
“I expect the court to turn down the case and close it once and for all on the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 25, 2011
The Administrative Judiciary Court decided to postponed Kāmīliyā Shihātah's case to June 14, 2011.
Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl Mīkhā’īl, Coptic lawyer, Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organizations (EUHRO), said that the court did not summon Shihātah and that the trial is about...