Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 18, 2013
Nizār Ghurāb, a lawyer from al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyyah, filed a report at the Council of State to demand the Azhar Fatwá Committee and the Ifta House (Dār al-Iftā’) to issue a fatwá prohibiting cartoonists from ridiculing the sanctity of Islam and Islamic law (Husayn ‘Umrān, al-Misrīyūn, May 18, p. 5...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 29, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II denied rumors that President Mursi or the presidential office called him to involve him in discussions about Renaissance Dam crisis in Ethiopia. This came during a meeting between the Pope and Austrian President Heinz Fischer in Vienna (Ahmad al-Sa'dāwī, al-Shurūq...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 23, 2013
In Sohag governorate, a Coptic man, Lutfī Khalafallah Hirmīnā, belonging to the Hirmīnā family was killed yesterday (May 22) by a member of the Muslim-family al-Sha’lānah a dispute over a piece of land. Following this, a number of the Coptic man’s relatives from his village, al-Siksākah, held a...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 28, 2013
Many priests from European churches joined his Holiness Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II as he led expatriate Copts in Vienna at Saint Anthony Monastery yesterday (May 27, 2013). Pope Tawadros also oversaw the inauguration of Saint Mark Church in the capital, which is adjacent to the United Nations...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 26, 2013
The largest meeting of heads of Churches between West, led by Vatican Pope Francis I, and the East, led by Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, inaugurates a new era in the history of inhabited relations between the oldest and the most important churches in world, despite the 1977 radical disagreement...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 27, 2013
Sohag Criminal Court sentenced one convict to death penalty and three others for life imprisonment who are "allegedly" innocent. These four people are convicted in the fitnah tā'ifīyah, erupted in al-Ghurayzāt village of Marāghah Township in Sohag governorate (Al-Sayyīd al-Ghūl, al-Misrīyūn, May 27...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 22, 2013
The U.S. State Department's 2012 annual report on religious freedoms highlighted the continuing sectarian violence demonstrates the failure of the Egyptian government to prevent sectarian division developing, and to conduct investigations into crimes committed against members of religious...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 9, 2013
Parallel to the happenings near Saint Mark Cathedral in al-'Abbāsīyyah further violent clashes broke out between Muslims and Christians in al-Khusūs. One Coptic guy was killed after being struck by a gunshot and 15 others were wounded, among them one police officer and four recruits. The police...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 25, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II highlighted his excellent relationship with Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb. The Pope mentioned that al-Tayyīb is a dear friend to him and that he plays an important role in both institutions. Pope Tawadros also pointed out that the Church and Azhar...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 20, 2013
In his first interview since the clashes at Saint Mark Cathedral in al-'Abbāsīyyah, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has confirmed that members of the police fired tear gas at the Cathedral (Caroline Kāmil, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Apr. 20, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.