Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 11, 2012
"I will collect the approvals for presidential candidature to be registered at the notary during the next couple of weeks in the name of 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh 'Abd al-Hādī Abū Sa'd, known as 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh," Dūs was quoted in a message obtained by al-Wafd.
Meanwhile, the Egypt...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2012
Meanwhile, the committee overseeing the papal elections postponed interviews with candidates pending the end of a deadline to register voters.
Archbishop Abram of al-Fayoum, a member of the nominations committee, said the challenges against candidates will be received by unregistered voters, adding...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the top Sunnī establishment is always expressive of the people’s feelings and the nation’s conscience, adding the Azhar will support any president the people will choose freely and transparently.
“The Azhar is supporting any articles in the...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
The Syndicate of Journalists council, in a meeting under Chairman Mamdūh al-Walī, denounced the recent attack on the freedom of the press by some deputies in the People’s Assembly and Shūrá Council, adding this attack only indicates there are some plans to undermine public freedoms, particularly...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
Meanwhile, officials in the communications ministry revealed that pornographic web sites could be acceded anyway even if any filters were installed to block them.
The officials made the remarks during a meeting of the People’s Assembly transport committee on Wednesday (May 16) as Dr. ‘Amr Badawī,...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
Two days after she was absent from her house, 20-year-old Christine, whose father reported missing since Monday (May 14), has turned out to have sought the help of Priest Damyan of Abu Jūy Church in al-Minya governorate, because she did not want to marry her cousin as her father wished.
Christine...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
As the Holy Synod is meeting soon under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius to decide on bishops nominated for the papal chair of Saint Mark, signature-collecting campaigns of the so-called East Bells Union of Alexandria Churches intensified to reiterate rejection of the nomination of bishops who...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod on Wednesday (May 16) reiterated commitment to the 1957 statute on the election of a new patriarch in succession of Pope Shenouda III and approved the nominations committee’s decision to extend the deadline to Saturday (May 19) to receive applications for the...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
Dr. Usāmah Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, the CEO of al-Ummah channel and Maria channel, which he plans to launch soon, said Maria is dedicated for niqāb-wearing women only and there will be no men on the crew at all.
He said that the channel will be totally separate from al-Ummah, owned by his father, Shaykh...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
Meanwhile, officials in the communications ministry revealed that pornographic web sites could be acceded anyway even if any filters were installed to block them.
The officials made the remarks during a meeting of the People’s Assembly transport committee on Wednesday (May 16) as Dr. ‘Amr Badawī,...