Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Chief of Suhāj’s security department proves that the news reported about girls’ kidnapings and human organ theft are mere rumors.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Coptic writers and intellectuals present their views on the reasons behind the inability of the Coptic Orthodox church to contain troublesome situations.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
The cases of Christian conversions to Islām are now increasing which may lead to sectarian strife.
Date of source: Friday, January 5, 2007
Upon detaining 15 priests in Suhāj, and after the problematic discussions of the laymen’s conference, church trials are put in question. Farghalī reports many Copts’ opinions and comments about the matter.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
The crisis of al-Kushh village which changed its name to al-Salām, in Sohag governorate, seems to experience a breakthrough after Bishop Wīsā, the bishop of al-Bilīnā, issued a decree to pardon the fourteen suspended priests.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The article sheds light on the alleged suspension of 14 priests from al-Kushh village, presenting their responses to the accusations.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Some Coptic residents of al-Salām village in Sohag have expressed their disappointment with their church, after hearing the news that some Orthodox priests in the village were suspended because of financial corruption.
Date of source:
Mamdouh Mahran, chief
editor of the weekly al-Nabaa, claimed that a former Coptic monk had
practiced prostitution inside the
church. Mahran was highly criticized in Egyptian media and was
accused of
damaging national unity. His
article provoked angry protests by Copts in Assiut and in the main...
Date of source:
The court of Cassation postponed
giving its opinion concerning the appeals filed against al-Kosheh rulings
by the Prosecutor General and the
four convicted defendants until the session of July 30. The upshot of the report,
the Cassation prosecution
introduced to the court was appealing against...
Date of source:
Montasser al- Zayyat, the lawyer of the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah was interviewed by al-Midan, Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat. In the statements he gave to the three papers he commented on the initiative denouncing violence, the government’s reaction towards it, the differences between the Jamā...