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Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
This meeting took place in a hotel on December 12, 2012, only days before the referendum on December 15. The text in this report has been approved by both the SGP delegation and Dr. George Missīhah.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2012
A delegation of Shubrā al-Khaymah priests met with Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd on Wednesday (November 7) to ask for the protection of a plot of land owned by the Kai Mina and Abi Sayfayn Church in the area of Mintāī, accusing a group of Salafists of “occupying the land and turning it...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox and Catholic churches and a large number of Coptic activists refused to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Egypt on Sunday (July 15) out of rejection of the United States’ interference in Egypt’s internal affairs. [Husnī Mīlād and Ahmad ‘Abd al-...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
Egyptian Churches rejected the meeting called by American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Christian leaders which took place at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo yesterday (June 15, 2012).
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
Coptic circles have been lately preoccupied with the figure to be vice president, comparing some effective names like incumbent Minister of Tourism Munīr Fakhrī ‘Abd al-Nūr, thinker and political researcher Samīr Marqus, activist Michael Meunir and former lawmaker Georgette Qillīnī. [‘Abd al-Wahāb...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
Several Coptic activists, emerging from a meeting at the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, agreed to name two Copts for vice president post or membership of a presidential council – Tourism Minister Munīr Fakhrī ‘Abd al-Nūr or Deputy Governor of Cairo for the Northern Area Samīr Marqus...
Date of source: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Political activist Michael Meunier, the leader of Al-Haya Party, denied all prosecution charges of involvement in the October 9 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Maspero that left 24 people dead and 350 others wounded. [Hātim al-Jahmī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 23, p...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) held the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and police "entirely responsible" for any loss of life, property or that Copts besieged inside a church in the village of Mīt Bashār in al-Zaqāzīq, al-Sharqia governorate, or the Muslims trying to protect the church...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
Subhī Sālih, a member of parliament from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), said there are some attempts to spark a falling out between youths in al-Tahrīr Square and parliament on one hand and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on the other. [Fātimah ‘Abd al-...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Party Affairs Committee approved the formation of al-Hayāh Party, founded by Michael Munīr [Coptic activist and head of U.S. Coptic Association].
Munīr said that the party is liberal and not religious. It has Coptic and Muslim members and it believes in human rights and freedom under the...
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