Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Masr al-Gidīdah Misdemeanor Appeal Court has decided that it would withdraw from the case of insulting religion against Ahmad Abdallah known as Abū-Islām and his son. The primary court has ruled to punish the former with 11 years and the latter with 8 years. Both of the defendants have torn and...
Date of source: Saturday, June 1, 2013
Judge Mustafá Musharaf will oversee the trial of 33 suspects at Banhā Criminal Court today (June 1, 2013), who are charged with instigating sectarian incidents at Khusūs. The suspects are accused of the illegal use and possession of weapons, the endangerment of public safety, the agitation of...
Date of source: Monday, January 9, 2012
Meanwhile, the Maspero Youth Union objected the excesses that took place during the Coptic Orthodox Christmas at Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah, criticizing the reactions by the cathedral's security personnel against young Copts who objected to Pope Shenouda III's...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Giza Emergency State Security Criminal Court resumes hearing witnesses for prosecution in Imbābah case in which 48 are accused of murdering 13 people and injuring 52 others, jeopardizing national security, setting the church on fire intentionally, possessing unlicensed weapons to execute a...
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2011
Coptic thinker Kamāl Zākhir refuses that the State monitor church money, which will be imposed in the unified law for building worship houses, to be issued.
The church has its own mechanism, as approved by the Milī council, to monitor its money.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III will announce on May 4, 2011 new details in the Kāmīliyā Shihātah crisis.
Bishop Aghabius of Dayr Mawās said he was ready to testify in the Kāmīliyā case.
On the other hand, Shaykh Abū Yahyá said that Bishop Ahghabius is going to be a suspect according to the CD...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Cairo's prosecution starts investigating the Kāmīiya Shihātah case after referring it to the Western Cairo Prosecution in light of the various reports about her disappearance [Read original text in Arabic].
In Ākhir Sā'ah magazine, page 12 and 13, May 4, 2011, Nabīl Lūqā Bibāwī said that neither...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Last night, a number of disappointing events took place when Copts demonstrators stood in front of the Egyptian television building [Maspero], intercepted October 6 bridge and prevented cars from crossing which created a traffic crisis.
Hundreds of the demonstrators joined in to destroy cars...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2010
‘Ayyād says that the lack of a unified law for building places of worship has once again caused problems. She says that it is the main reason behind last Wednesday’s ‘Umrāniyyah riots. She blames the authorities for ignoring the issue since the 1970's, most recently when it was suggested by...
Date of source: Sunday, September 27, 2009
The author highlights Bishop Timotheus of al-Zaqāzīq and Minia al-Qamh’s comments about conflict and love in the human soul.