Date of source: Monday, August 5, 2013
Sheikh 'Alā Saddīq, Secretary of Construction and Development Party in Suhag the political wing of Al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah (Egyptian Sunni Islamist group), claimed that electronic newspapers which reported the besieging of Saint George’s (Mār Jirjis) Church, breaking crosses in Banawīt village and...
Date of source: Monday, May 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.
This incident left three dead, two...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Dr. Ibrāhīm Fāyiz al-Sa'īd, Copt from Sohag, who hosted a meeting of al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah and other political representatives, including proponents of secularism, said that they will you be peace in Egypt if Islamic Law is properly implemented. Dr. Sābir Hārid, adviser to and Professor of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
In collaboration with local intermediaries and religious clerics, security authorities in Sohag Governorate intensify their efforts to prevent sectarian strife in the village of al- Samatā, al-Billīnā Township after a 42-year old Coptic man called al-Nimr Wahīb Najīb had assaulted and killed the 62...