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Date of source: Sunday, October 23, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III told Prime Minister 'Isām Sharaf that the Copts were marching peacefully and did not carry any weapons, urging the Egyptian premier to speed up the enactment of a unified law regulating the construction of houses of worship so as to avoid repetition of the Maspero...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2011
Clashes erupted between the military and the Copts during the latters' protests off the state TV building in Maspero, on October 9, 2011, leaving nearly 24 Copts dead and 212 others injured. Some reports mentioned the death of three army soldiers and 100 others injured.
Date of source: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Al-Akhbār, October 5, 2011 (p. 4) – Army, police forces disperse protesters, open Kurnīsh road
Army and anti-riot police personnel dispersed Coptic protesters who had staged a sit-in in the area of Maspero by force during the early hours of October 5. The protesters escaped in all directions and...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
After the January 25 uprising and liberation of party politics from the manacles the Mubārak regime, some good enthusiastic Coptic figures phoned me and suggested the idea of establishing a Coptic party, writes Majdī Khalīl in a column.
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Administrative Court approved issuing National ID Cards with the Christian religion for the twins (Andrew and Mario Ramsīs).
Andrew and Mario's case occupied the public opinion for more than four years when their father converted to Islam in 2000 and demanded that his children follow his...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Hundreds of Muslims in al-Marīnāb village of Idfū town, Aswan governorate, set Saint George's Church on fire, and then used sharp equipments to demolish the church's domes and ceilings, in addition to setting light to four Coptic houses.
Security forces came late and failed to prevent the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
In the elections for Faculties' deans at Cairo University, Dr. Boutrus Hāfiz Boutrus, Copt, won and became the Dean of the Faculty of Kindergarten at Cairo University.
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Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
In Banī Mazār village, al-Minya governorate, al-Shaykh Fadl Secondary School refused to let a Coptic girl, first secondary grade, in for the eighth day running for refusing to wear a hijāb.
When the girl's father went to school to object the measure, the school administration filed a libel report...
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2011
The Egyptian Cabinet is scheduled to send a fact-finding team from the National Justice Commitee to investigate the Saint George's Church Crisis in al-Marīnāb village of Idfū city in Aswan governorate.
The crisis erupted three weeks ago when Muslims objected to building domes on the church and...
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2011
Dr. 'Imād Abū Ghāzī, minister of culture, said that the celebration of the Egyptian new year's feast at the Opera by the Ministry's Department of Foreign Cultures, came to reinforce the concept of citizenship away from religious differences, because it gathers all Egyptians regardless of their...
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