Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2014
Mustafá ‘Izat Hamdīn, the imam of ‘Amr Ibn al-‘As Mosque, was referred for questioning by the representative of the Ministry of Endowments in Cairo, Jabir Tayi’. The imam is being investigated for having left work and allowed someone else to take his place, without prior agreement from the Ministry...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 23, 2014
The fact finding committee formed by the NCHR has left for the village of Jabal al- Tāyr, Minya, in order to research the facts concerning the events that the village witnessed recently
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2014
Anonymous perpetrators kidnapped 26-year old Coptic farmer, ‘Bolbol,’ from his farm near the village of Mashtah in Suhag. His father, Jamīl Zakī, issued the report regarding his son’s kidnapping at the local police station and the investigation is ongoing to find the perpetrators.
Date of source: Monday, September 22, 2014
Shabāb Christian movement for Orthodox Copts called upon the Pope Tawadros to end his pastoral visit to Canada that would continue until the end of this month and return to Egypt to follow up on the crisis of the village of Jabal al-Tāyr in Minya.
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 2014
A number of Copts in the village of Dāyr Jabal al- Tāyr, Samalūt, Minya, have accused the security forces of dealing with the angry youth during the protests calling for the return of the disappeared housewife with much repression and brutality.
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 2014
Coptic activists and Coptic organizations called upon President ‘Abd al- Fattāh al- Sīsī to dismiss the Minister of Interior, Muhammad Ibrahīm, as well as the Governor and the Security Director of Minya.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 2014
On Sunday 14th of September, more than 200 Copts attacked a police station in the village Jabal al-Tayr, belonging to the governorate Minya, with Molotov cocktails which hurt three policemen and destroyed three police cars.
Date of source: Saturday, July 19, 2014
26 Christians suffered from an acute case of food poisoning on their way home from a school trip to visit the churches of Alexandria, Beheira, and Cairo. The trip, organized by Fr. Bakhūm Gaballāh, priest of the St. Bakhūm church in the village of al-Suām’ah in Suhag, was intended for the students...
Date of source: Saturday, September 13, 2014
Security sources revealed that members of the Muslim Brotherhood, members of the Devils of Damanhūr (‘Afarit Damanhūr) cell and Danak cell, who were arrested in Beheira have given confessions in front of policemen.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 16, 2014
A statement issued by the Catholic Diocese of Minya, stated that there are no criminal suspicion in the deaths of 11 Copts who drowned in Rās Gharīb, the Red Sea. The statement pointed out that the victims were part of a trip organized by the church to Coptic monasteries in the Red Sea governorate