Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Investigations are still going on to arrest the culprits who murdered a salafī preacher and his wife inside their apartment in the Giza district of al-Haram.
Neighbors of the murdered man told al-Yawm al-Sābi' newspaper that Shaykh Ahmed was a driving force behind Islamic da'wah (call) and set up a...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Dozens of Copts staged on May 30 staged a protest in al-Urdunīyah square in the city of al-'Āshir Min Ramadān, al-Sharqia governorate, against the reported disappearance of an 18-year-old Coptic girl, Jaclyn Ibrāhīm Fakhrī.
The demonstrators chanted slogans against the security apparatus for "...
Date of source: Thursday, June 2, 2011
Jackline's father, a missing young Coptic woman in al-'Āshir area, Sharqia governorate, refused to perceive the incident as fitnah tā'ifīyah, but he believes that it is a kidnap crime and trusts the security, asking them to intensify their efforts to find his daughter.
Date of source: Thursday, June 2, 2011
Muntasar al-Zayāt, Ahmad Lutfī's lawyer, first suspect in the Two Saints Church explosion in Alexandria, revealed that the emergency State Security court released his client. He was surprised to find out that the Minister of Interior Affairs, Mansūr al-'Isawī issued a decision to arrest him again...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Protesting Copts in Maspero rejected Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III's advice and instruction to end the protest, and assured that the Pope has a value in their hearts but he does not have guardianship over them.
This movement was a shock given that the Pope has never lost control of the church...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Rev. Andrea Zakī, Vice President of Egypt’s Evangelical denomination, demanded the application of the law to end the fitnah tā’fīyah, even on clerics, Muslims or Christians, if they were proved involved in the Imbābah incidents.
“If the state pursued the same old ways to deal with the sectarian...
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2011
The Family Court in Qūwaysanā decided to consider the separation case between 'Abīr Fakhrī Tal'at, fitnah sparker in Imbābah, and her Christian husband on June 26, 2011.
She was a no-show in court, but her seven lawyers came and represented her and presented documents that prove her conversion to...
Date of source: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Presidential candidate 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh said he is counting on support from salafists, who he said are greater in number than the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
“Salafists have been preaching in the mosques for 30 years under Mubārak without being persecuted like the Muslim Brotherhood,” he...
Date of source: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Dr. 'Abd al-Qawī Khalīfah, Cairo governor, assured the necessity of taking all engineering, scientific, artistic measures to protect Monastery of Sama‘ān al-Kharāz in al-Duwayqah area for its global and touristic value.
[Reviewer's Note: News story was also covered in al-Yawm al-Sābi', May 25, 2011...
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2011
In al-Jumhūrīyah, page 1, May 20, 2011, reports noted that the Coptic Maspero protests may be solved after a decision to reopen four churches and the release of Coptic detainees in Maspero incidents, proven to be not involved in the incident.