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Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church revealed that ‘Abd al-Nūr and Marqus are the most likely candidates for the post, denying that the church interfered in naming some Coptic leaders for the position.
“Reports that the church called for appointing Michael Meunir as vice president are totally...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
Najīb Jabrā’īl, the organization chairman, said the church was consulted on the proposed and other names but the Coptic activists finally settled on ‘Abd al-Nūr and Marqus, both are acceptable for both the church and Christian citizens. [Muhammad Hijāb, al-Ahrām, June 29, p. 6] Read original text...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
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...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
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...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
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,...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
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...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
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,”...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Archpriest Buqtur Nāshid of the Mar Girgis Church in al-Nahdah said despite the relief amidst Coptic families in the village of Sharbāt after the decisions by a parliament’s fact-finding commission, these decisions need to be implemented on the ground.
The commission’s acknowledgement about the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Local leaders managed to contain a sectarian fitnah in Mīt Bashār as Muslim elders of the village formed human shields to protect the church and Copts’ houses there until security agencies found Rānyā in the house of one of her relatives in Cairo.
The girl, who was handed over to the al-Zaqāzīq...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
The Minyā al-Qamh prosecution is still investigating the crisis over rumors that church clerics kidnapped and detained her after she converted to Islam.
Hanān ‘Attīyah Girgis, the 40-year-old mother of Rānyā, said during investigations with her that her husband Khalīl has forced Rānyā to convert to...
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