Date of source: Friday, February 10, 2012
A coalition grouping Muslims and Christians for the first time was founded by with the aim of deepening full citizenship and freedoms of opinion and expression in accordance with the international law, the UN Charter, international human rights covenants and the Egyptian society’s norms and ethic...
Date of source: Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church Thursday called on all citizens to work on building a powerful future for Egypt and preserving the nation’s top interests. [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, Feb. 9, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
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The Episcopal / Anglican Diocese of Egypt mourned on Sunday (February 5) “all the sons of Egypt who lost their lives in deplorable incidents in the cities of Port Said, Suez and Cairo”. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Jumhūrīyah, Feb. 6, p. 6] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Friday, February 3, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III expressed heartfelt condolences for Egyptians over the deplorable incidents that followed the Egyptian league football game between Cairo's al-Ahlī and Port Said's al-Misrī in the coastal city. [Husnī Mīlād, al-Akhbār, February 3, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) reiterated condemnation of "attempts to provoke the group's youths" in al-Tahrīr Square during celebrations marking the January 25, 2011 revolution's first anniversary. [Hānī 'Izzat, al-Ahrām, Jan. 31, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb sent a cable on Tuesday (January 24) to Dr. Muhammad Sa’d al-Katātnī congratulating him over his election as speaker of the first parliament after the January 25, 2011 revolution. [Ashraf Sādiq and Muhammad ‘Abd al-Khāliq, al-Ahrām, Jan. 25, p. 22] Read...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A Coptic organization abroad affirmed that it will not participate in all celebrant aspects marking the January 25 revolution, adding one year after the revolution nothing of its objectives have materialized. [Yumná 'Abd al-Wahāb, al-Wafd, Jan. 24, p. 3] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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...
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb called on the members of the Egyptian parliament, the first after the January 25, 2011 revolution that unseated President Husnī Mubārak, to keep in mind the impoverished, downtrodden and marginalized citizens and the people who reside in graveyards and...
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Presidential hopeful Dr. 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh said Egypt has been a Muslim nation for nearly 15 centuries now, criticizing voices calling for the implementation of the sharī'ah "as if Egypt has been a Quraysh or infidel state". ['Ādil al-Darajlī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 22, p. 14] Read...