Date of source: Sunday, October 23, 2011
The psychological institution in al-Khānkah sent back Michael Nabīl Sanad, who is serving an imprisonment term for insulting the armed forces, to the psychological hospital in al-'Abāsīyah.
Sanad's lawyer had asked the prosecution to have the sanity of his defendant examined.
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Date of source: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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What role will expatriate Copts play in this new plan of Egypt splitting into states? Three mini-states to be precise, with three distinct groups; Nubians in the south, Christians in Upper Egypt and Muslims in the north.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
A reported teenage love affair between a 16-year-old Christian girl and a 17-year-old Muslim boy, who were said to have agreed to marry, was about to ignite yet another sectarian confrontation in the Giza district of al-'Umrānīyah, where sectarian clashes erupted a year ago.
Speculations took an...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Controversy prevailed in religious circles in Egypt after statements regarding the enactment of a unified law regulating construction of houses of worship soon.
The law is to take the file of construction of mosques and churches from security bodies, particularly the interior ministry, to the local...
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
Four alleged ‘kidnappings’ of Christian girls were reported Friday to the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights.
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2006
The author says that al-Maydān, an independent newspaper, is refuting allegations propagated by a Coptic web site, Coptichistory.org, owned by ‘Izzat Andarāwus, about the abduction of Coptic girls to force them to convert to Islam. The paper says that it interviewed a girl, Wafā’ Rā’fat ‘Adlī, who...
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2005
In an interview, Shaykh Hasan al-Shinnāwī, the grand chief of the Egyptian Sufis elaborates on the number of Sufis in Egypt and their relation to the government and the American embassy, after the U.S. ambassador attended the al-Sayyid al-Badawī moulid.