Date of source: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Bayyādī said the meeting will also deal with Evangelical Christians’ views about the development of education, decisions of the ‘urfī (informal) conciliatory council in crises that erupt between Muslims and Christians while the application of the law is ignored and the FJP’s vision about creativity...
Date of source: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Investigation judges Tharwat Hammād, Ahmad Ismā'īl and Dīyā' Hassanayn accused Meunier that he and Father Philopater Jameel of the Virgin Mary Church in Faysal district, according to investigations gathered by the Military Police, met with protesters at Hilton Ramsīs Hotel on October 6 and gave...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Forensics finalized Monday (Feb. 20) examining the injuries of nine army soldiers to detect the nature of their wounds during the Maspero incidents that left 23 people dead and dozens others injured.
Counselor 'Ādil al-Ghūwayt, the judge mandated by the justice ministry to investigate the case, had...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Forensics finalized Monday (Feb. 20) examining the injuries of nine army soldiers to detect the nature of their wounds during the Maspero incidents that left 23 people dead and dozens others injured.
Counselor 'Ādil al-Ghūwayt, the judge mandated by the justice ministry to investigate the case, had...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
"In my reply to the accusations, I will say that the incitation was made by the Egyptian TV that urged the people to go out to protect the army and assault Copts," Meunier said in statements. [Ahmad al-Sa'dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 21, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Tension is gripping the township of Banī Mazār in al-Menya, where local residents of the village of Abū Jilbān besieged the village of al-Nasseriyah to take revenge on a tuc-tuc (autorickshaw) driver who happened to be a Copt, for killing a six-year-old boy who happened to be a Muslim. [Māhir ‘Abd...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá welcomed endeavors by the parliament’s fact-finding commission in cooperation with Christian religious leaders and Shaykh Hawwārī of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) Movement in al-‘Āmrīyah to “right wrongs”.
“Tolerance and coexistence are authentic values,”...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Archpriest Buqtur Nāshid of the Mar Girgis Church in al-Nahdah said despite the relief amidst Coptic families in the village of Sharbāt after the decisions by a parliament’s fact-finding commission, these decisions need to be implemented on the ground.
The commission’s acknowledgement about the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
“My father used to mistreat us. He was perennially quarrelling with my mother. Two years ago, he converted to Islam, left our house and married to a Muslim woman. We have been the focal point of bad talk in the town,” said the 14-year-old girl.
“Four months ago, I left my mom’s house and went to...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Pope Tawadros has decided that the Bishop of Ismailia, Bishop Seraphim, is to supervise the diocese of Suez temporarily until a new bishop is selected after the unfortunate death of Bishop Ignatius (Sayyid Nūn, al-Shurūq, Dec. 31, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.