Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Lawyer Najīb Jabrā’īl said his client Kāmīliyā Shihātah will not appear in the June 14, 2011 session at the State Council’s Administrative Judiciary Court in a case filed to demand that her whereabouts are disclosed.
“I expect the court to turn down the case and close it once and for all on the...
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2011
Al-Minya's new governor, Maj. General Samīr Sallām, gave the thumbs up to embark on procedures to license the construction of a new archbishopric and annexes over an area of 4300 meters in the city of Maghāghah, capping a 14-month-old crisis.
Archpriest Ezra Fanjarī, the deputy head of the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2011
Major General Manṣūr al-ʿIsāwī, Minister of Interior Affairs, said that the issuance of a unified law for building worship houses will occur soon.
He added that the church affairs will be under the pretext of local councils, not the Ministry or any other Security Apparatuses.
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Date of source: Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Archpriest Marqus Birtī, Father of the Virgin Mary and Bishop Abraham Church in 'Ayn Shams, demanded a rapid issuance of a license to build the church.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
A Coptic bishop called on the authorities to expedite procedures to issue a license for a "controversial church" in Ain Shams. "More than 2,000 Coptic families in Ain Shams are waiting for a license for the church to hold their prayers after a pledge by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to open the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Ashraf Edward, a lawyer representing the Virgin Mary Church in the Ain Shams neighbourhood of Cairo, said the church's legal committee will present a request to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the interior minister and the cabinet that the church be reopened. The church is one of many that...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2011
The attack on the church in Alexandria this weekend marked a new deep trench in the deteriorating relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Shortly before this act of terror, Trouw gauged the atmosphere among Egyptian Christians and Muslims. See footnote 1 in the full text. This text is...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Is the church in Egypt persecuted? Many Coptic Christians would answer in the affirmative. I definitely agree that the situation for Christians in Egypt has worsened but I do not agree using the word persecution before we have first agreed on a definition and compare facts on the ground with this...
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2011
The government announced it would prepare a law within a month to ease restrictions on building churches, while banning protests in front of places of worship, after attacks on Cairo churches.
The government is also moving to reopen churches closed under President Mubarak. It would study the cases...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thousands of Copts descended on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbāssīyah, Cairo on Friday, May 6, in response to a Salafi Muslim demonstration at the same location a week earlier