Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Bishop Antonius of Ireland and Scotland said all expatriate Copts are keen on attending the great day of elections that some of them had private flight reservations, adding all Copts would cooperate with the new patriarch for the good of the church. [
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2019
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The following is a translation of an e-mail by Sieghield Lacoere, the official spokesperson of the Belgian Minister of Justice, to Jarit Taelman, a Belgian journalist working with De Gazet van Antwerpen, “Re: Leslie Maras,” February 12, 2019. The original e-mail was...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2019
Editor AWR: The Center for Arab-West Understanding has ‘adopted’ Belgian prisoner Leslie Maras who has been since 2006 in an Egyptian prison for an effort to take drugs into Egypt. Leslie was sentenced in 2007 to life in prison which in Egypt means 25 years. His parents have tried through court...
Date of source: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb criticized the West’s constant bias in favor of the Zionist entity, adding the Palestinian issue is the very core of all problems in the region that failure to reach permanent and just solution and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its...
Date of source: Saturday, September 29, 2012
A decision by the Dutch government on July 11, 2012 was all about facilitating procedures for asylum by Egyptian Christians, not at all about announcing the reception of asylum seekers.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter emphasized Egypt's role under the new regime in achieving peace and stability in the Middle East and expressed hope that the new Egyptian constitution would meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said any citizen in any place all over the world who seeks asylum to the Netherlands must first be present on Dutch soil and then offer a convincing proof that he/she needs international protection. [Dīnā Darwīsh, al-Akhbār, Oct. 23, p. 7] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, October 11, 2012
The Vatican, during a weekly sermon by Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic Church, in which he used Arabic for the first time in a bid to have larger communication with Christians and Muslims in the Middle East, expressed concerns about the emigration of the region’s Christians for their own...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The German intelligence service is searching for 35 German jihādists in Egypt after Germany expressed concerns about Salafī threats to carry out terrorist operations on its soil.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Rose al-Yūsuf has published an interview with Midhat Qilādah, president of the Union of Coptic Organisations in Europe, who will hold a meeting with representatives of the European Union to present the conditions for Copts in Egypt under President Muhammad Mursī. In the interview Qilādah claims...