Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2012
Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl Mīkhā’īl, Coptic lawyer and Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organizations (EUHRO), said that he wants the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) money to be monitored by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) because they are performing public...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 4, 2012
New appointments to Egypt's Supreme Press Council include journalists, editors-in-chief, politicians and academics of varying political orientations.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2012
Al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah showed dissatisfaction and concern at the formation of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) as it did not include "people who represent ten thousands of Egyptians who lost their rights in prisons" referring to members of the Jamā'ah who were imprisoned at the time of...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2012
Dr. Wahīd 'Abd al-Mijīd, spokesperson of the Constituent Assembly drafting the Egyptian Constitution, denied finishing the draft text that concerns the Azhar being the religious reference to the state, also drafting a new article about the Islamic sharī'ah.
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Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2012
A number of bearded police officers staged a protest off the Ministry of Interior on September 4, 2012 calling to be rehired (after they were dismissed for growing a beard).
The Court ruled in their favor and they (bearded-police officers) stressed that their protest will continue until they get...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2012
The Shūrā Council approved the appointment of Judge Muhammad Husām al-Dīn al-Ghurīyān as president for the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) and 'Abd al-Ghaffār Husayn Ahmad Shukr as Vice-President.
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Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 4, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox voters' register committee and appeal committee meeting today (September 4) to discuss church position from lawsuit demanding the cease of the papal elections.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2012
Editor: Michael Burslem, a friend of AWR, sent us this text about Dr. Tarek Mitri who has supported us when he was a staff member at the World Council of Churches. Mitri’s comments about current Muslim-Christian relations are very to the point and worth reading.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī opened the 16th summit of non-aligned nations in Iran.
Mursī opened his speech by praising the four caliphs of sunnī Islam.
(Reviewer's Note: Sunnī Muslims believe that Abū Bakr al-Sidīq is Prophet Muhammad's successor while Shī'ah Muslims believe that 'Alī Ibn Abī Tālib is...
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2012
Bishop Dr. Yūhannā Qultah Sa‘īd, Deputy Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church, said that the Coptic citizen came out of his isolation.
He added that Egypt is the least country that has religious extremism and it is bigger than to contain only one religion or doctrine.
"We were used that fitnah...