Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2011
Father Marqus Birtī, Father of the Virgin Mary Church in 'Ayn Shams, sent the following letter to al-Ahrām:
In the meantime where elders succeeded in pacifying fitnah tā'ifīyah in 'Ayn Shams, which is similar to Sūl and Imbābah, and the conciliatory agreement between both sides that specified what...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Is the the issuance of a unified law on building houses of worship going to be the end of misery and the end of fitnah?
Qutb al-'Arabī, writer, answers 'no' because this law will be applied on all religions equally, churches and mosques. That means that, according to the United Nations, every...
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Sanne Lundberg’s thesis was about the strong Coptic Christian perception of being discriminated, the interplay of this belief with religious beliefs, as well as
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2010
Part 2 of 2
(Continuing the analytical remarks on the feelings of unease that certain issues engender among the Copts):
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2010
Sa'd al-Husīnī, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc, declared that the MB will include a number of Copts candidates in case of participation in the next parliamentary election.
He also expressed his confidence with the solidarity of all the political parties in facing what...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2010
Part 1 of 2 In Egypt, the Copts are being denied access to certain high positions, deprived from the freedom to build new churches, and suffering from increasing suffocating fanaticism from all directions.
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2011
According to Alfred Stepan, Muslim Brotherhood and the total number of Islamists will not win more than 25 percent of votes in any free election. The American Professor of Political Science therefore claimed, worrying about Islamists getting to power is overemphasized. Stepan is specialized in...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
[Text spoken at the Missio-organized Parlamentarischer Abend in Berlin, March 15, 2011. The meeting was well attended. Seven members of parliament from different political parties participated, along with assistants of other members in parliament and diplomats of the Foreign Ministry. Dr. Otmar...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
[Editor AWR: Both Cardinal Patriarch Antonius Naguib (Cardinal of Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt) and AWR editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman were asked to give presentations about the place of Christians in Egypt today on occasion of "The Parlamentarischer Abend" (informal evening meeting of...
Date of source: Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has decided that ID cards will suffice for referendum and elections, instead of the pink voting card.
A document belonging to the ousted regime, saved from the State Security headquarters, states the ousted regime's reasons for not using the ID card. One of...