Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 10, 2012
Mursī's unconfirmed status of attending the enthronement of Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II is due to Salafists' pressure, according to al-Yawm al-Sābi’.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 9, 2012
Magi Mīlād, a 13-year-old Christian student in the preparatory stage of education whose hair was cut by force by a niqāb-clad woman inside the metro, said she was sad about that situation more than her sadness about her hair.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 28, 2012
Nine Christian families packed up and left their homes in the Egyptian city of Rafah to relocate to al-‘Arīsh, North Sinai governorate, after concerns amidst Christians’ circles that followed a shooting spree on the store of a Christian merchant on Wednesday (Sept. 26).
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 27, 2012
The ministry of education inserted verses from the Bible into the syllabus of secondary schools in the chapter on human rights of the national education subject
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 27, 2012
Maj. General Abū Bakr al-Jindī, Chairman of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), denied reports attributed to him about the census of Egyptian Christians or that he said Copts are five million.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 26, 2012
Abū Islām, prior to referral to the court, said he meant to insult U.S. Pastor Terry Jones, who called for a so-called Qur’ān Burning Day, back.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 15, 2012
Al-Yawm al-Sābi’ reports that leaflets inciting the killing of Christians have appeared in the city of Fāyīd. The city is close to the governorate of Suez, where three extremists had killed a young man for walking in public with his fiancée (he died in hospital on July 1).
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 18, 2013
General Muhammad Nūr Al Dīn, the Assistant Minister of Interior, stated that there is a total of 11 police stations in al-Minya and that 7 were burnt in the events that followed the dispersal of the Nahdah and Rāba’ah sit-ins. He stated that extremists have formed shields, extorted Christians and...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 18, 2013
The hearing session of the civil society organizations in the Social Dialogue subcommittee of the Constituent Assembly has witnessed a disagreement between Najīb Jibrā'īl and Salīb Matta Sawiris, the member of General Union of Associations, concerning the status of Copts in the Constitution. The...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 18, 2013
Representatives of Al-Azhar in the Constituent Assembly have announced their unanimous rejection of removing the phrases of “Christians and Jews” from the Article 3. Counselor Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām, the Rapporteur of the Basic Requirements subcommittee in the Constituent Assembly, stated that its...