Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
On the other hand, justice ministry sources informed of the course of investigations into the foreign finance issue revealed that examining judges have received a new report accusing 15 more civil society organizations inside Egypt of receiving funding worth $600,000 from the United States prior to...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Pope Shenouda urged all Copts to observe good manners inside churches, adding during a weekly sermon on Wednesday (January 11) at the Saint Mark Cathedral that sometimes people forget they are inside a church and do things that not suitable in a holy place. [Yūsuf Rāmiz, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Jan. 15...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Tayyīb said the top Sunni Muslim establishment preserves the principles of the sharī'ah against any corruption or twisting of texts.
Tayyīb's remarks came in his speech at a conference on the service of the sunnah (the Prophet Muhammad's tradition),...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Lawyers of the martyrs’ families called for applying “the severest penalty” – execution – against ousted President Husnī Mubārak, his sons Jamāl and ‘Alā’, former interior minister Habīb al-‘Ādlī and six of his top aides on charges of involvement in killing demonstrators during the January 25, 2011...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
‘Isām al-‘Iryān, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), told U.S. newspaper The New York Times that "no people can support" permanent power for the military, and the Brotherhood's political party will fight for the Parliament's right to pick a future...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Meanwhile, the Cairo Court of Appeal set the Būlāq Abū al-‘Ilā Court of Misdemeanor to look into the lawsuit accusing Coptic business magnate Najīb Sawirus of disdaining religions and defaming Islam for publishing anti-Islam cartoons on the Internet.
Mamdūh Ismā’īl, a member of Egyptian Bar...
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2012
In the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to the feast Mass, churches specified the subject of their sermons to talk about "monotheism" which raised controversy that the priests are trying to send a message to the MB and deny that Christians are polytheists. [Yūsuf Rāmiz, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd,...
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2012
Speaking on the occasion, Pope Shenouda said, “I congratulate you on the start of a new era and the glorious Christmas that coincides with alarming atmosphere in which the people are wondering where Egypt is going. I would say that Egypt is definitely going to good prospects and blessings. I am not...
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2012
The investigating panel had received the probes by a sovereign security agency that disclosed ‘Azīz’s involvement in the incidents in which 28 persons are suspected, all released but banned from traveling out of the country pending investigations.
‘Azīz, according to investigations, has met with a...
Date of source: Friday, January 6, 2012
A young Copt, Kyrillos ‘Ayyād, sat on the ground inside the St. Mark Cathedral carrying a large photo of Shaykh ‘Imād ‘Iffat, who was killed in the recent incidents off the cabinet office in downtown Cairo, during the visit of Dr. Tayyīb, Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah and Minister of Awqāf...