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The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III. Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III. Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...
On the other hand, the Patriarchate of al-Menya and Abū Qurqās issued a statement on the incidents that broke out over the Mar Girgis Church in the village of al-Ismā'īlīyah in which it asserted security forces nipped a sectarian fitnah in the bud and applied to the authorities concerned to allow...
Tension is gripping the township of Banī Mazār in al-Menya, where local residents of the village of Abū Jilbān besieged the village of al-Nasseriyah to take revenge on a tuc-tuc (autorickshaw) driver who happened to be a Copt, for killing a six-year-old boy who happened to be a Muslim. [Māhir ‘Abd...
Coptic lawyer Najīb Jabrā’īl, the chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization (EUHRO), called for canceling the public prosecutor’s decision to place underage Coptic girl Rānyā Khalīl in a care house for girls, terming the decision as “arbitrary”. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd,...
Meanwhile, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemned the “police and army forces’ failure to protect houses and property of Copts in the village, adding arson is a crime that should have no place for conciliation. [Hānī Danyāl and Nādir Shukrī, Watanī, Feb. 19, p. 1] Read text in...
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá welcomed endeavors by the parliament’s fact-finding commission in cooperation with Christian religious leaders and Shaykh Hawwārī of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) Movement in al-‘Āmrīyah to “right wrongs”. “Tolerance and coexistence are authentic values,”...

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