Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Pope Shenouda has postponed his visit to the injured victims of the New Year's Day bombing of the Church of the Two Saints, says al-Wafd.
According to the report, the postponement is necessary because the injured are currently housed in five separate hospitals.
The paper adds that Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
People's Assembly member Ahmad al-Sahafi wants to know what the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments has done to encourage imāms to push for acceptance and co-existence between the country's Copts and Muslims, especially in light of the New Year's Day attack on a church in Alexandria.
According to a...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The meeting of the Egyptian-European Council was the scene of a heated debate between the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Shūrá Council and the Papal Nuncio in Cairo regarding Pope Benedict's recent statements regarding the protection of Middle Eastern Christians.
According to...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
This story reports on the recent calls for realizing former president Anwar al-Sādāt’s vision of a unified state with equal rights and duties for all citizens. In the past, it was the upcoming October War in 1973 that motivated Sadat to introduce a bill on national unity. Today, it is the...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
The article at hand describes the Egyptian police’s denial of claims that the suicide bomber responsible for the Alexandria attacks was of Pakistani origin.
Furthermore, the article covers the interior ministry’s release of the latest forensic findings, which identify the perpetrator as a 23 to 25...
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2011
Muhammad al-Misrī, a former professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, begins his commentary on the Alexandria bombing with a reflection on his childhood days spent in Cairo’s predominantly Christian district of Shubra. He thereupon proclaims his conviction that “Egypt’s...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
On Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer reportedly opened fire on a train in the southern province of Minya, killing one Christian and injuring 5 others. Today's Egyptian newspapers mostly emphasized that the assailant was allegedly mentally unstable and that his motives were not...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
This Egyptian Gazette article talks about the call by Amnesty International for Egyptian authorities to stop the alleged intimidation of the family of Sayyid Bilāl, whose family claims that he was tortured to death while in detention.
Bilāl was suspected by police to have been involved in the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
According to the article, the Vatican shares Egypt's wish to avoid an escalation of inter-religious tensions. This comes after Cairo on Tuesday recalled its ambassador from the Holy See following comments by Pope Benedict XVI, who condemed the church bombing in Alexandria and called for the country...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
This Egyptian Gazette article covers the issue of the train shooting in Minya on Tuesday night. Prosecutors have detained the 23-year old policeman who allegedly opened fire while on a Cairo-bound train, killing a 71-year-old Copt, while wounding his wife and four others, all of whom are Christian...