Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2013
Qena
Dozens of supporters of ousted president, Muhammad Morsi (Mursī) from Islamic movements in Naga' Hammādi formed a human shield around the Virgin Mary Church during the early hours of dawn on August 6. They gathered to stand firm against any attempts to storm the church after clashes between...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2013
Father Bākhūm, Bishop of Suhag, al-Munsh’aa and al-Maragha made statement that there is no truth in what was published and broadcast about the raising of an al-Qa’ida flag on Suhag’s Saint George’s Church. What happened, instead, was a peaceful march that passed in front of the church and in no way...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2013
Coptic Reactions
Tens of Coptic activists and organizations demonstrated in front of the Public Prosecutor’s office (August 5), protesting against the escalation of sectarian violence and the assaults against Copts...” (Michael Fāris, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Aug. 5). Read original text in Arabic....
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2013
Colonel ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ‘Abd al-Latīf, head of al-Minya security, received a complaint from Malāk Sādiq Jirjis, a 33-year-old businessman, resident in the division of Shalbī, reporting the disappearance of his 6-year-old son, Phīlopātīr. The investigations confirmed that he was kidnapped by a 21-year...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2013
Major General ‘Abd al-Fattāh Uthmān, Director of the General Department of Media in the Ministry of Interior, reassured the Copts by saying that there are current security plans for all of the Church establishments (‘Abd al-Wahāb al-Jundy, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Aug. 6). Read original text in Arabic....
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2013
Security forces controlled the clashes that broke out in the village of Banī Ahmad in al-Sharqiya district. Unidentified persons snuck into farms and fired guns, alerting security forces inside the village, which redeployed in and around the village and closed the streets leading to it. In total,...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 15, 2012
He noted that 200 Muslim and Coptic political figures, intellectuals and clerics have participated in the study, including Bishop Marqus, Bishop Yūhannā Qultah, Freedom and Justice Party deputy leader ‘Isām al-‘Iryān, People’s Assembly member Subhī Sālih, Abū al-‘Izz al-Harīrī, Jamāl al-Bannā and...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 14, 2013
Leaders of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) declared that it has refused to allocate a quota of seats to Christians in the Parliament, arguing that the Constitution prohibits discrimination among all segments of the Egyptian society; a quota would entrench sectarianism in politics.
Sābir Abū al-...
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2013
In the aftermath of a young Muslim who died during sectarian violence last August, clashes between Muslim and Christian residents in Dahshūr town in Giza governorate of broke out again. The clashes started after a Christian ironing-man burned a Muslim customer's shirt during ironing. Mu’āz...
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 5, 2013
Nūr ‘Alī of Al-Yāwm al-Sābiꞌ reports that Copts and women are the most controversial points discussed in the Shūrá Council on the parliamentary election law. While liberals demand more controls to represent them, the Islamists reject that on grounds of “no positive discriminations” among...