Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2011
My fifteen years living in Egypt has given me a lot of connections, including Egyptian diplomats, who are now providing me with stories about current developments in Egypt. It is very common among diplomats that they are ready to give visitors an off the record insight in what is happening in their...
Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2011
Full Title: An Appeal to the Supreme Council of the Valiant Armed Forces And a Clarification of the Circumstances Surrounding what Took Place on the Morning of Wednesday, February 23.
The official statement of Monks of the Monastery of the Great Saint Anbā Bīshūy at Wādī al-Naṭrūn about the attack...
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2011
Al-Kalimah Center for Human Rights released a press release on demolishing of the church of the two martyrs in Helwan.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2011
Editor: An army unit destroyed quickly built walls near the Monastery of Saint Bīshūy, each half-a-kilometer beyond the existing wall, and installed a new metal gate. This was done without any building permit.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The Egyptian religious establishment adhered to its position of favoring stability and opposing the spread of chaos and sabotage. It has also supported the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the five communiqués it has issued since it took over following the stepping down of President Ḥusnī...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
As so many many also Worldvision called us for information. But providing information does not always result in reporting that we would agree to. We introduced Worldvision to a medical doctor who is a good friend of ours. This is what they reported:
Weeks of protests in Egypt in the midst of...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
With the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today, pro-democracy protestors, Muslims and Christians, are celebrating in the streets of Cairo and other cities around the country. Power was handed over to the Egyptian military.
According to Open Doors, a Christian organization founded...
Date of source: Thursday, February 10, 2011
According to the Pew Research Center, US media attention for the Egyptian protests has exceeded every foreign policy story over the last four years, commanding 56% of all news coverage. While initially surprising, upon reflection this story hits at the conjunction of many popular flashpoints:...
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2011
AWR's intern Toon Bijnens analyzes the media coverage on the church of Two Martyrs St. Mina and St. George incident.
The church is located in Sūl village of 'Ātfīh (Governorate of Helwan). Angry Muslim young-men set the church on fire after seeing a muslim girl with a christian young-man called '...
Date of source: Friday, February 4, 2011
I visited Egypt with a Christian delegation between January 21 and February 4.
It was remarkable to see banners throughout Egypt with texts about Muslim-Christian unity. No one, however, knew whether these were just words or not but in the days following the revolt, which began on January 25,...