Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā, Islamic thinker and presidential hopeful, said that the rumors about his tensions with Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, and Christians or his claims that churches had weapons were groundless. [Author not mentioned, al-Akhbār, March 28, 2012, p. 10] Read...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Laymen on the panel included Millī Council members Counselor Nabīl Munīr, Counselor Edward Ghālib, Mālik Mīnā, Munsif Najīb Sulaymān, Dr. Georgette Qillīnī, Dr. Kamāl Shawqī, Rasmī ‘Abd al-Malik, Kāmil Sālih, Wajdī Louis.
The Holy Synod will meet on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, to continue discussions...
Date of source: Friday, February 24, 2012
Counselor Tharwat Hammād, the judge assigned by the justice ministry to investigate the October 9, 2011 clashes outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Maspero, ordered the referral of 31 army soldiers in those incidents to the forensic officials to examine their injuries and see...
Date of source: Friday, February 24, 2012
Presidential hopeful Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-'Awwā said he expected support for him from the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafīs, liberals and Copts, adding during a rally in al-Badrashīn, Giza, that the military rule will not fall except through presidential elections. [Muhammad Gharīb and Ibtisām Ta'lab, ...
Date of source: Friday, February 24, 2012
Presidential hopeful Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-'Awwā said he expected support for him from the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafīs, liberals and Copts, adding during a rally in al-Badrashīn, Giza, that the military rule will not fall except through presidential elections. [Muhammad Gharīb and Ibtisām Ta'lab, ...
Date of source: Friday, February 24, 2012
"Rest assured because Jesus Christ will not come prior to the falling away. When this happens, Jesus will come," the pope said in reply to a question during his weekly sermon at the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah.
He said Jesus Christ is not going to come in Egypt these...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Bīshūy Fawzī, a member of the Union’s politburo, called for a symbolic stand of protest outside the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah to send a message to Pope Shenouda that invitations to Islamists or members of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The church’s insistence on the invitations it has sent to SCAF members and Islamists on one hand and calls by the opposition to stage protests off the cathedral on January 5-8 on the other are putting both sides on the horns of a dilemma, reads an opinion article in al-Ahrām daily.
Many Coptic...
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ʿIsām al-ʿIrīyān has been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood for many years and served on its Guidance Bureau. He is now the Vice Chairman of Ḥizb al-Ḥurriya w-al-ʿAdāla (Freedom and Justice Party) founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in 2011. Al-ʿIrīyān has been arrested several times;...
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This interview concerns the court case of four members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who had been arrested right before the upcoming parliamentary elections in November 1995. Aḥmad al-Khawāja, Head of the Lawyer’s Syndicate, not an Islamist himself but the lawyer representing the MB...