Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
“The roundtable meeting invitation by the U.S. embassy in Cairo with Clinton was extended to Christian figures to discuss the status of Christians in Egypt. However, I, as an Egyptian politician, am ready to discuss issues of citizenship and human rights with Egyptians on national grounds but I...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The activists who signed the statement said Clinton and other U.S. politicians who visited Cairo since the outbreak of the January 25 revolution held a series of meetings that betrayed their and the U.S. administration’s encouragement of political Islam groups while ignoring politicians from other...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The Egypt Copts Coalition and Coptic politicians said that Clinton’s visit aims at “dividing Egypt on a sectarian basis, which is rejected by the Egyptian people in general and the Copts in particular”.
They added that the division started when she met Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and salafī figures...
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
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
Some Christians who voted for Ahmad Shafīq had been panicked by the possibility of seeing the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Muhammad Mursī, making it to power to the point that they thought of leaving their homeland and beloved ones.
Christians cannot be blamed because simply many Muslims opted to...
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
General Bishop Makarius of al-Minya and Abū Qurqās on Wednesday (June 27) called in an official statement in the name of the Copts of al-Minya for avoiding jumping to conclusions about the new president and for giving him enough time to arrange his ideas.
“The presidential election results were...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
Some Christians who voted for Ahmad Shafīq had been panicked by the possibility of seeing the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Muhammad Mursī, making it to power to the point that they thought of leaving their homeland and beloved ones.
Christians cannot be blamed because simply many Muslims opted to...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
Mursī, during a meeting with chief editors of state-run, party and independent Egyptian newspapers, said that Copts need no assurances because simply this is their own country and “we all have equal rights”.
Also during the meeting, Mursī noted that the Arab Palestinian rights are ones of Islam,...