Date of source: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
In a statement issued by Catholic Bishops Council chaired by Patriarch Cardinal Antonios Naguib, the Catholic Church in Egypt stressed the necessity that the new draft regulation on construction of churches includes a provision giving official licenses to churches already constructed before the...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I have received an e-mail message from British ambassador in Cairo James Watt forwarded to many persons and invited them to comment on it, not on the Internet but in al-Jumhūrīyah newspaper.
Date of source: Monday, October 24, 2011
Dr. Muhammad Mursī, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), blamed the October 9 bloody Maspero incidents on the remnants and lackeys of the former regime, adding it was them who opened fire on both sides and it was them who sparked the Imbābah fitnah.
"Neither the...
Date of source: Monday, October 24, 2011
The unified draft law on the construction of houses of worship will be tackled by the cabinet's legislative committee Tuesday (Oct. 25) to discuss some amendments and proposals introduced by some religious institutions during the past few days, according to Minister of Local Development Muhammad '...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2011
Clashes erupted between the military and the Copts during the latters' protests off the state TV building in Maspero, on October 9, 2011, leaving nearly 24 Copts dead and 212 others injured. Some reports mentioned the death of three army soldiers and 100 others injured.
Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2011
The Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) Freedom and Justice Party elected six members in the executive office, one of them was a Christian lady called Kāmilīyā Hilmī.
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Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The Supreme Administrative Court in the Council of State headed by Counselor Majdī al-'Ajātī, ruled in favor of re-converters to Christianity and gave them the right to prove their religion on the national ID card and birth certificate.
The Court will still have to consider another 12 similar...
Date of source: Thursday, September 29, 2011
A number of masked men killed a security guard when they attacked the site of a former church early Thursday morning in a village in Fayoum Governorate, southwest of Cairo.
The men fired a barrage of bullets at the security team, which included one police sergeant and two guards. Security sources...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Giza Emergency State Security Criminal Court resumes hearing witnesses for prosecution in Imbābah case in which 48 are accused of murdering 13 people and injuring 52 others, jeopardizing national security, setting the church on fire intentionally, possessing unlicensed weapons to execute a...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, the Azhar's grand shaykh, criticized U.S. favoritism toward Israel in the Palestinian case, assuring that it will garner hatred towards the U.S. Administration's justice.
He added that the Azhar will always support Palestine and the establishment of a Palestinian State with...