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Minister of Interior Majdi `Abd al-Ghaffār met a group of journalists in his office on Monday to discuss police abuse and plans to confront terrorism.
World Servants, a Dutch Christian organization that supports building projects in different countries, contributed to several buildings in Egypt for social purposes. All projects, except for two, have been completed. The Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Beni Suef made promises to also complete these last...
In Luxor - the ancient Egyptian city that draws thousands of tourists each year – a facebook campaign has prompted the arrest of nine police officers accused of torturing the man to death.
The ministry of social solidarity closes 9 NGOs in Luxor because of their links to the Muslim Brotherhood.  The representative of the ministry in Luxor added “these NGOs will be closed completely by next week and their money and property will be claimed by the ministry to aid other NGOs” Read more ...
Christianity in the Arab World was flourishing in relative terms prior to the First World War and consequent break-up of the Ottoman Empire.
As a student who signed up to study Arabic in the autumn of 2010, I looked forward to the third year of my degree (abroad in an Arabic-speaking country) with a lot of excitement – there were so many options to choose from. I had organised a three-month teaching placement in Muscat, Oman to begin in...
Luxor Misdemeanors Court headed by Judge Muhammad al-Tamāwī has fined the teacher Dimīyānah ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Nūr EgP100 thousand. Dimīyānah faced the charges of insulting Islam and the Prophet as well as proselytizing her students at Naga El Sheikh Sultan (Naj’ al-Shaykh Sultān) primary school in the...
Dozens of thousands of people gathered in the Vatican City to hear the final public prayer ceremony of the departing Pope Benedict XVI, amid exceptional security measures and claims of plots in the Vatican. Both volunteers and elite security forces worked to ensure a safe and secure experience for...
As always, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism maintains its faith in the resilience of the Egyptian tourism industry and bets on its capability to quickly rebound following the short period of slow business marked by a general precariousness and anticipation from the tour operators.  
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday, June 14th about two major political cases that had been brought before court: Were the past parliamentary elections constitutional? Is the Political Isolation Law Parliament passed valid? This law bans members of the former regime from...

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