Date of source: Monday, October 7, 2013
Coptic Businessman, Naguib Sawiris, criticized the Muslim Brotherhood and the deposed president, Muhammad Morsi (Mursī). He stated that he has given himself divine powers and treated him as a second-class citizen. He denied having pacts with the Muslim Brotherhood. He stated that Ambassador Rifā’ah...
Date of source: Friday, October 4, 2013
A number of Salafī figures have criticized the issuance of a law that criminalizes refusing to salute the flag and one that prohibits parties on a religious basis (Mustafá Hāsim and Muhammad al-Fikī, al-Shurūq, Oct. 4, p. 4). Read the original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Friday, October 4, 2013
The vice president of the Salafī Call, Yāssir Burhāmī, continued to criticize the Constituent Assembly and stated that to refer to the Egyptian identity in the Constitution is a way of getting around the Muslim creed of the ummah (the Islamic nation) (Ahmad Badrāwī, al-Shurūq, Oct. 4, p. 4). This...
Date of source: Friday, October 4, 2013
A number of representatives of the Popular Movement for the Independence of Al-Azhar in the Constituent Assembly requested the deletion of Article III of the Constitution, which refers Christians and Jews to their own religious codes, but that the text of Article II remains unchanged.
Sāmih Ashūr...
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Maspero Youth Union coordinator in Alexandria, Ramī Qashu’, stated that the union decided in coordination with the central movement in Cairo to suspend their protests due to the attack on the church in al-Warrāq until the government responds. He stated that their requests include the dismissal...
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2013
The funeral of Karīm Jirjis, a Copt who was shot dead when he was in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, took place on Thursday (Dec. 6) at Virgin Mary and Saint Stephen Church in Shubrā el Khaymah.
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Bishop Benjamin, the bishop of Menoufia, stated that the attack on the Church in al-Warrāq is alien to Egypt and that non-Egyptian elements are possibly responsible for it as well as the other terrorist attacks that aim at destabilizing the country and causing strife between Copts and Muslims (...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Novelist, Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Maguīd, stated that he shall take part in the initiative organized by the Minister of Culture called “One Night for the Sake of Humanity”. The aim of this initiative is to mobilize artists to recreate the burnt Christian icons which were destroyed by terrorist attacks in...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Security sources stated that they have identified the names of 8 defendants who carried out the terrorist attack on the Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael Church in Warrāq, which led to the death of 5 people and injured 17 others on October 20. The source has also stated that they have arrested a...
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2012
Former member of parliament Jamāl Zahrān said in 2007 the People’s Assembly (parliament) took four months to amend Article 34 of the constitution amidst debates, dialogues and objections, criticizing a vote over a whole constitution in one or two days as “void and illegitimate”.