Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Secretary-General in Alexandria, Husayn Ibrāhīm, said that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliament members will activate the second article in the constitution calling it as a 'National Security' and filtering laws from anything that is against the Islamic Sharī'ah....
Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Minister of Local Development, Counselor Muhammad 'Atīyah, said that the Legislative Commission of the Cabinet demand the Family House to state the reason for rejecting the unified law for building houses of worship.
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Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Azhar's Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, held an urgent meeting with the Islamic Research Academy to discuss the 2001 Statute for building mosques and a separate law for building churches.
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Date of source: Saturday, October 29, 2011
Minister of Local Development Muhammad 'Atīyah said that the government has received some notes from the Family House initiative regarding the draft law on the unified construction of Muslim and Christian houses of worship and will be approved.
'Atīyah, who is also a member of the cabinet's...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Islamic Research Academy renewed its disagreement on the unified law of building houses of worship and insisted on the 2001 statute that regulates building mosques.
This came in a meeting headed by the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and Muftī of the Republic Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah.
This...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Party Affairs Committee approved the formation of al-Hayāh Party, founded by Michael Munīr [Coptic activist and head of U.S. Coptic Association].
Munīr said that the party is liberal and not religious. It has Coptic and Muslim members and it believes in human rights and freedom under the...
Date of source: Friday, October 28, 2011
The Mental Health Hospital in al-'Abāsīyah area of Cairo released Michael Nabīl, blogger, accused of defaming the Military.
[Reviewer's Note: Michael Nabīl went on a hunger strike after being arrested and then he was admitted to the Mental Health Hospital.]
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Date of source: Friday, October 28, 2011
Sources from the Egyptian Council for Human Rights commission, assigned to prepare a report on Maspero incidents, said that the report will not deny killing protesters either through gunshot or crashing into armored vehicles which resulted in them being run over. However, the report will assure...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Rights and legal activists criticized decisions by the Family House initiative on October 16 that recommended the abolition of the draft law on unified construction of houses of worship.
The initiative, which had been launched earlier by the Azhar in order to avoid any possible sectarian strife,...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The version by official bodies about the sanguinary incidents in the Maspero area on October 9 and that of the Copts are extremely different to the point of contradiction.