Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Coptic intellectuals stated that a terrorist attack on churches is an attack on the state. Coptic intellectual, Sāmih Fawzī, stated that the terrorist attack against Copts is not due to their religion but rather because of their support in deposing Muhammad Morsi from power. He added that what has...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The attack has left four citizens dead. There are suspicions that it might be the Muslim Brotherhood, especially because the leaders of the Rāba’ah sit-in did not hesitate to threaten the Copts in reprisal for their participation in protests on June 30 (Peter Majdī, al-Tahrīr, Oct. 22, p. 5). Read...
Date of source: Friday, October 11, 2013
Hānī Ramsis, member of the High Board of the Maspero Youth Union stated in the memorial event of the Maspero incident in the Cave Church in the Monastery of Saint Simon the Shoe Maker that no one yet has brought the perpetrators to justice (Peter Magdī, al-Tahrīr, Oct. 11, p. 7). Read original text...
Date of source: Sunday, August 25, 2013
In the same village, in the protests of what they called “the Friday of the Martyr” (August 23), they requested the Copts of the village to leave. They have also attacked the cars of the police and army (Muhammad al-Zahrāwi, al-Tahrīr, Aug. 25, p. 10). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Sunday, August 25, 2013
A Washington Post article has deemed the Muslim Brotherhood innocent and accused the army of burning churches. It stated that the government is encouraging attacks against places of worship to give it an excuse for repression (Thomas Georgesian, al- Tahrir, Aug. 25, p. 12). Read original text in...
Date of source: Sunday, August 25, 2013
The Church expresses its anger over the American support for the Muslim Brotherhood. A number of bishops and priests in Egyptian churches have expressed their anger at the U.S. and expressed to Tahrīr that those who burned and looted the churches have been video taped. Bishop Makarios stated that...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 21, 2013
According to the author, the terrorism and excessive violence that has been committed by the Muslim Brotherhood and its followers like the al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyahand Jihadist organizations on the Sinai prompted a group of rights organizations torecord the acts of violence that these organizations...
Date of source: Sunday, May 11, 2014
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros has led a mass in St. Antonios’ Church in Abū Dhabi on Saturday May 10, on the second day of his visit to the UAE.
Date of source: Saturday, May 10, 2014
Salafīs have refused to implement the decision of the Ministry of Endowments which prohibits preaching of those who are not imāms.
Date of source: Saturday, May 10, 2014
Eng. Abd al- Mun’im al- Shahāt, spokesman of al- Da’wah al- Salafiyah, who issued an earlier fatwá that democracy is religiously prohibited, stated that we select al-Sīsī, out of concern for sharī’ah and that no political pact was made with him.