Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Abū Islām, prior to referral to the court, said he meant to insult U.S. Pastor Terry Jones, who called for a so-called Qur’ān Burning Day, back.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Al-Yawm al-Sābi’ reports that leaflets inciting the killing of Christians have appeared in the city of Fāyīd. The city is close to the governorate of Suez, where three extremists had killed a young man for walking in public with his fiancée (he died in hospital on July 1).
Date of source: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
General Muhammad Nūr Al Dīn, the Assistant Minister of Interior, stated that there is a total of 11 police stations in al-Minya and that 7 were burnt in the events that followed the dispersal of the Nahdah and Rāba’ah sit-ins. He stated that extremists have formed shields, extorted Christians and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The hearing session of the civil society organizations in the Social Dialogue subcommittee of the Constituent Assembly has witnessed a disagreement between Najīb Jibrā'īl and Salīb Matta Sawiris, the member of General Union of Associations, concerning the status of Copts in the Constitution. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Representatives of Al-Azhar in the Constituent Assembly have announced their unanimous rejection of removing the phrases of “Christians and Jews” from the Article 3. Counselor Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām, the Rapporteur of the Basic Requirements subcommittee in the Constituent Assembly, stated that its...
Date of source: Friday, September 13, 2013
Father Ayūb from the Coptic Catholic Church in al-Minya said that Muslim Brotherhood members went from home to home in Diljā village with employees of Al-Jazeera satellite channel. The Brotherhood then forced the Copts to take interviews with reporters from the satellite channel where the latter ...
Date of source: Thursday, September 12, 2013
A delegation from the Presbyterian Church in America including Father Jean Dafris, Father Marshall Zeman, and Amgad al-Biblāwī, Regional Coordinator for the Middle East for the Christian Church in America, has visited Shaykh Al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyīb, this morning (Thursday) in the Shaykh's...
Date of source: Thursday, September 12, 2013
A delegation of officials of the Egyptian Churches under the leadership of General Bishop David has traveled to the United States of America to meet with U.S. officials in the United States National Security Council in the White House. The purpose of the meeting was to explain the truth about the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Copts for Egypt Movement has met the Minister of Administrative Development, Hānī Mahmūd al-Garīrī, yesterday evening (Tuesday) to discuss a number of issues that the movement has put up for discussion. Hānī al-Gazīrī told al-Yawm al-Sābi' that he has handed forward a proposal to the Minister that...
Date of source: Sunday, August 25, 2013
General Ahmad Yūsuf, the governor of Suez, has inspected the Church of “al-Ra’ī al-Sālih” (The Good Shepherd) for Catholic Copts and its school after it has been burnt completely during the protests by Morsi’s supporters (Michael Fāris, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Aug. 25, p. 4). Read original text in Arabic...