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.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 10, 2012
Twenty-five human rights organizations and political parties called on the Shūrá Council to freeze the recent appointments of chief editors of state-run newspapers.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb praised President Muhammad Mursī's decision to re-establish the Senior Scholars...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 23, 2013
Attacks against Copts
Birlantī Fayīz ‘Awad, a senior arts specialist in the Art Palace of Heliopolis, stated that she was attacked verbally and her car was destroyed during a rally of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Mahkamah Square in Heliopolis. She recounted that they told her, "Oh, Christian, oh,...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2013
Interim President,AdlyMansūr, issued a decree to license the establishment of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Pyramid City,6th of October, Giza Governorate (Magdī Fikrī, al-Dustūr, Oct. 2, p. 2). This article has no link online.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2013
Families in ‘Ayāt have stated that the clashes between the families and thugs have renewed. According to inhabitants, thugs are extorting the families. They have shut down shops for the refusal of the shop-owners to pay extortions. Thugs have also terrorized the Christians families and extorted the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2013
Security forces have stated that they were capable of identifying the perpetrator of the assassination attempt against Bishop Makarios. The attack came as an attempt to stop the Christians from practicing their religious rituals after an exchange of gunfire by both sides, according to security...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 1, 2013
Research Center, "Yad Vashem", which focuses on the events of the Holocaust, published a story about Egyptian doctor named Muhammad Hilmī, a doctor rescued Jews from the hands of the Nazis. He is the first Arab who succeeded in protecting a Jewish family in that period. He thus deserved the title...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 1, 2013
There are new hopes for resuming relations between Al-Azhar and the Vatican. Dr. Shawkī Allām, Egypt's Mufti, attended a peace conference in Rome as a representative of the Shaykh of Al-Azhar. The mufti carried a message from Shaykh to the Pope welcoming the renewal of dialogue between the two...