Date of source: Sunday, September 30, 2012
Nine Coptic families in Egyptian Rafah started packing up and leaving to the city of al-‘Arīsh following recent threats a few days ago as some members of those families said they are relocating to ‘Arīsh after the governor approved to send them there, where there are no dwelling places available...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Egypt’s top census official revealed that Egyptian Christians are 5.130 million. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Sept. 26, p. 2] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī has reiterated that all Egyptians enjoy the same rights and duties and that there is no Christian minority in Egypt, said presidential spokesman Yāsir ‘Alī, commenting on U.S. President Barack Obama’s statements on Copts’ rights in Egypt. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām,...
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
The Azhar discredited reports by some mass media and an independent newspaper issued on Monday (September 23) that Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb has received a delegation representing all three Egyptian churches to reach an alliance in the face of the Salafists. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Khāliq, al-...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2012
Deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Dr. Rafīq Habīb said the groups that hail the dissolution of the parliament only aim to block any success by Islamists and then corner the president to call for repeating the presidential elections. [Author Not Mentioned,...
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius nodded a recent statement by the Los Angeles parish priests assembly that called for not including the name of Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles on the list of persons contained in a report to the public prosecutor in Egypt regarding a...
Date of source: Saturday, June 23, 2012
CAIRO, Egypt (AWR) – The standoff between Muslim Brothers and Egypt's ruling military continues, but seems to be turning into a victory for the army over the Brothers.
The Muslim Brothers organized large demonstrations at Tahrir square on Friday. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf)...
Date of source: Thursday, September 13, 2012
President Dr. Muhammad Mursī denounced offending the Prophet Muhammad and stressed in a presidential statement that the Egyptian people, Muslims and Christians, reject the discrediting of religious symbols.
Date of source: Saturday, September 1, 2012
Egyptian Church expressed their relief for the sppointment of presidential advisors consisting of four advisors and 17 members of the consulting body to President Muhammad Mursī.
Date of source: Saturday, September 1, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī made a promise in his election campaigne to appoint Christian, woman and youth as vice-presidents. Well, he fullfilled his promise by appointing a Christian and a women, I am not sure about a youngman though! There is a joke circulating on social-networking websites, namely...