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Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Reports conflicted on the health of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III as sources confirmed his deteriorating health due to "problems in the kidneys and the heart, which prompted him to cut short his treatment trip in the United States".
Rumors surfaced on Sunday (January 29) that the pope entered...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
Leading Coptic activists called on all Christians to rally their ranks into one political party so that Coptic votes would not be dispersed in the Egyptian Bloc or other alliances, urging Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III to investigate the bishops who asked Copts to vote for the Egyptian Bloc.
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Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2012
Activist Michael Nabīl, who was pardoned on the first anniversary of the January 25, 2012 Revolution, said that he was not subjected to any torture inside his prison but watched many torture cases inside military jails and al-Marg prison, where he was serving a three-year term for insulting the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2012
The area of al-'Āmirīyah, west of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, has been the scene of deplorable incidents when Muslims and Christians exchanged fire, leaving three wounded and setting some stores on fire, after a young man saved the images of a young girl on his cell phone and showed...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Ann Emil Zakī, a 35-year-old mother of four, adamantly insisted to become the first Egyptian woman to be ordained as priest right after she finished her theological studies.
Zakī, married to an American with all her four kids carrying U.S. passports, believes that the Cairo Evangelical seminary...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Father Sharīf Nāshif, the assisting priest at the Saint Kyrillos for Roman Catholics, left for northern Sudan to lead the Christmas Mass at the Lady of Annunciation Church in Khartoum.
In an interview with Rose al-Yūsuf magazine, he said that the Christians of northern Sudan refuse to immigrate...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), gave instructions to appoint 10 new deputies in parliament.
Marian Malāk, a 27-year-old woman, who carries a university degree in law, English language, the youngest member of parliament, said she...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
On the other hand, security agencies arrested on Friday (Jan. 27) the perpetrators of the Naja' Hammādī crime, in which five persons killed Copt Mu'awad As'ad, a cement trader, and his son As'ad.
The prime suspect is 'Ādil Muhammad Jamāl, an upholsterer, who was aided and abetted by four others...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Khayrat al-Shātir, the deputy murshid (guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood group, said that SCAF's passing of the Azhar law is a "grave mistake" and "flagrant assault on the parliament." [Ahmad Fathī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Jan. 28, p. 7]
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
The enactment of the law on the Azhar, known in the media as the Azhar independence law, was severely criticized as it was approved and published in the official gazette a few days before the People's Assembly session.
'Abd al-Ghanī Hindī, the leader of the people's movement for the independence...
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