Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2011
'Abd Allah al-Husaynī, Minister of Awqāf (Endowments), underlined the necessity of protecting mosques.
The minister noted that imāms will no longer come under security guardianship.
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Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2011
Residents of Abū Qurqās of al-Minya governorate were outraged after the release of six Copts suspected of involvement in the incidents in the city, which left two Muslims dead.
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Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Some Coptic activists agreed to stage a demonstration in the St. Mark Cathedral on Wednesday 4, 2011 in support for Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III and protest against the salafists' demonstration.
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood's Irshād (Guidance) Office chose Dr. Muhammad Mursī to be the leader of the group's Freedom and Justice Party.
However, he has to give up his membership in the MB Irshād Office.
The MB Shūrá Council decided to compete over 45 to 49 percent of the parliamentary seats.
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Date of source: Monday, May 2, 2011
A Coptic source said that the Church is not against summoning Kāmīliyā Shihātah to investigation but it is against sending the subpoena to the St. Mark Cathedral, which is not the party involved in this issue.
The Church refused to receive subpoena as it should be sent to Shihātah's home not the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood on 30 April announced the formation of a new party and pledged to contest nearly half of the seats in the next parliamentary elections.
The party will be named Freedom and Justice Party. No explanation was given to why the group have now decided to contest 50 per cent of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Islamic Jihād group announced their welcome to Christians. This announcement gave many people hope for the end of sectarian fanaticism.
However, Dr. Jihād 'Awdah said that the salafī movement did not acknowledge the 1919 Revolution because of the participation of Copts participated. In addition,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2011
The article talks about the latest developments in Qena where salafists flamed fitnah in the governorate, then returned during the Friday prayers to cause it again.
Salafists had refused to stand for a minute of grief for the victims of the incident and Shaykh Qurshī Salāmah, potential amīr,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Usāmah Salāmah writes that the government is facing a critical challenge, either it will succeed in establishing a civil state or they will give up, and then we can call it the death of a civil state.
He believes that it is necessary to have a law that criminalizes all forms of discrimnation. Only...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Political liberal, leftist and Nasserist movements embarked on contacts for coordination in the upcoming parliamentary elections to confront the alliance of Islamist groups.