Date of source: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The Islamists bar association demanded on June 14, 2011, the presence of Kāmīliyā Shihātah and Wafā' Constantine in the Administrative Judiciary Court, and that in order to pacify fitnah, their religion should be announced.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
More than one thousand Copts protested on June 14, 2011, in Minya demonstrating the kidnapping of Nancy Majdī Fathī, 14-years-old, and Christina 'Izzat Fathī, 17-years-old, after they attended prayers on Sunday, June 12, 2011.
Residents of the village said that the two girls went out on Sunday,...
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2011
Head of the Egyptian union for human rights, Najīb Gibrael, said that the ministry of defense agreed on re-building the Virgin Mary and Bishop Antonius church in Qena governorate.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The Court of Cassation decided that July 3, 2011, will be date of the first trial of the 48 culprits in Imbābah's incidents.
Military prosecution had been investigating the case and then referred it to the Public Prosecution, which ordered the referral of the 48 perpetrators to criminal trial. 22...
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2011
A number of human rights activists agreed that the unified law regulating the construction of houses of worship in Egypt would not end the recent sectarian strife over the issue.
Hāfiz Abū Si'dah, Chairman of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), said the law would settle 70-80% of the...
Date of source: Friday, June 3, 2011
Security forces succeeded in finding Jackline Ibrāhīm Fakhrī on June 2, 2011, after her mysterious disappeared on May 21, 2011. Jackline is a Coptic student who disappeared in al-'Āshir min Ramadān area [10th of Ramadan].
Her father said to the papers that he was informed by the police to come and...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
A number of former members of the nullified parliament and Shūrá Council and members of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) seek to join the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) party "Freedom and Justice," on one condition, that they be placed on the MB's list in the upcoming parliamentary...
Date of source: Thursday, June 2, 2011
Dr. 'Abd al-Akhar Hamād, Muftī of al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah, said that the group completely refuses the option of a Christian becoming president.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Hamdīn Sabāhī, potential presidential candidate, said that he will keep the second article in the constitution without cancelation or amendment, for two main reasons: one of them is that it is the country's identity, Islamic culture is what he was raised by. The second reason is that a constitution...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church had demanded from the Cabinet to present it with the Unified Law for Building Houses of Worship.
A church source assured that the cathedral refuses the idea of financial supervision of the church, because the church does not get donations from the State but from...