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Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, called for establishing a council for Egyptian churches to be tasked with negotiating with the new regime to achieve Copts’ demands, stressing unity of Christian denominations to seek solutions for Coptic problems, including the...
In the coast city of Suez, mass marches were out on the street on Friday took to the streets from mosques and churches, in a token of national unity, chanting slogans against SCAF and urging Field Marshal Tantawi to step down and the army to return to their barracks. ['Amr Ghnimah, al-Ahrām, Jan....
For a few weeks now, I have been closely following the fuss surrounding the visit by a delegation from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah in the evening of January 6 under Lt. General Sāmī 'Anān to congratulate...
Media dialogue have become an important tool that can damage the relationships among the Egyptian people due to their sectarian nature.
Following publication of a report detailing video evidence from the October 9, 2011 attack on a mostly Coptic demonstration at Maspero, a few people have sent in additional evidence. This appendix report updates the original text. Officer Fires on Protestors – Maspero (30 seconds)
From before the revolution, many Copts have realized their community suffers from a dearth of political and civic participation. The Coptic Orthodox Church’s Bishopric of Youth, for example, has an area of focus entitled ‘Promoting Coptic Participation in Society’, which I encountered when a...
News is almost never as it appears.  On December 1st I went with investigative researcher and former lieutenant with the Egyptian coastal security Intelligence Rā’id al-Sharqāwī to Tahrīr square.  The square is currently blocked for traffic by perhaps 2,000 demonstrators asking people wanting to...
This is the very question many people are asking about the Muslim Brotherhood following the Egyptian Revolution of January 25, 2011. While the world was enthralled by a peaceful youth movement to overthrow a corrupt regime, many feared then, and more fear now, that the aftermath will result in...
October 9 witnessed riots in Cairo that led to the death of at least twenty-seven people and the injury of over 300, mostly from Egypt’s Coptic Christian community.
The Maspero Youth Union urged the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to offer an official apology for all Copts of Egypt and investigate the October 9 bloody incidents that left dozens killed or wounded.

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