Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) held the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and police "entirely responsible" for any loss of life, property or that Copts besieged inside a church in the village of Mīt Bashār in al-Zaqāzīq, al-Sharqia governorate, or the Muslims trying to protect the church...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Alexandria Governor Dr. Usāmah al-Fūlī said denied that the deported families were seven, adding some satellite channels exaggerated things in a "community that is enjoying calm and stability" after the incidents that erupted late January 2012.
"The 'urfī session, which I attended myself, only...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Saturday, March 3, 2018
Shaykh Muhammad Hassān, an Islamic preacher, took 20,000 Salafists during a symposium in Beni Suef with an Italian young woman who recited the Muslim shahādah (creed) in both Arabic and English and declared her conversion to Islam amidst cheering and shrills of approval by the participants in the...
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2012
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”.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Giza Emergency Supreme State Security Court resumes on Sunday (February 5) hearing witnesses in the Imbābah sectarian incidents in which 48 persons are facing charges of illegal assembly, premeditated murder, attempted murder, sparking and inciting sectarian fitnah and setting fire to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Dr. Ahmad Mahmūd ‘Atā Allāh, a member of parliament in al-Gharbia governorate, said he would forward a proposal to set up a committee for women inside the People’s Assembly considering the frail participation of women in parliament.
Female legislators are only eight, plus two by appointment,...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
On the other hand, Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III said the keenness shown by Islamist groups to express feelings of endearment for Copts over the Christmas celebrations only affirm that there is still good prevailing in Egypt.
“All those calls of division and disruption of unity among...
Date of source: Monday, January 9, 2012
On the other hand, a number of representatives of movements and parties on Sunday (January 8) to set up a national accordance committee to prepare a joint working paper regarding a mechanism to elect a constituent panel to draft a constitution. [Mustafá 'Abīdū, al-Jumhūrīyah, Jan. 9, p. 2]
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2012
A group of Salafī young men launched an initiative called Salafists for the Guarding of Churches through coordination among Islamist groups and parties, security agencies and church officials. [Author not mentioned, Al-Jumhūrīyah, Jan. 4, p. 3]
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Meanwhile, Maj. General Ahmad Sālim al-Nāghī, Director of al-Qalyubia security Department, said security agencies did not spot any assaults on stores in the governorate’s capital Banhā or any smashing of Christmas trees outside churches.
“Conditions on the streets are very normal and nothing that...