Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Representatives of political parties, factions and election experts requested President Adly Mansūr to withhold the bill of Political Rights and the House of Representatives and leave the task of issuing it to the president-elect, Abd al- Fattāh al-Sīsī after he swears in. This was during a round...
Date of source: Sunday, May 18, 2014
With the endorsement of the Grand Imām Ahmad al-Tayyib Shaykh of the Azhar, a new branch of ‘Bayt al-‘Ailah (a body related to the Azhar comprised of Christian and Muslim leaders and scholars), was inaugurated in the governorate of Sohag by several officials, among them Dr. ‘Abbās Shūmān, Deputy of...
Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2014
Shaykh Yassir Burhami, vice president of the Da’wah al- Salafiah, stated during a popular conference held in al-Kharijah [Kharga], in al- Wadī al- Jadīd, that they support Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī in the presidential elections due to their belief that he is the most capable of leading the country in...
Date of source: Friday, May 16, 2014
The Reciters Syndicate decided to expel Shaykh al- Shāzilī, the reciter who called the shi’te call to prayer in Iraq. The deputy of the Azhar, Abāss Shuman, stated that the honorable Azhar does not honor it to have a Shaykh such as Shāzilī affiliated to it. He stated addressing the expelled...
Date of source: Friday, May 16, 2014
The Reciters Syndicate decided to expel Shaykh al- Shāzilī, the reciter who called the shi’te call to prayer in Iraq. The deputy of the Azhar, Abāss Shuman, stated that the honorable Azhar does not honor it to have a Shaykh such as Shāzilī affiliated to it. He stated addressing the expelled...
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Pope Tawadros has arrived to Egypt coming from the UAE after a five-day official visit. He stated in a press conference in Abu Dhabi before his return, in which the Egyptian Ambassador Ihāb Hamūdah was present, that the support of the UAE to Egypt in the current period is a continuation of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
In the confessions of the third defendant in Ansār Bayt al- Maqdis case, Muhammad Bakrī Harūn, stated that he received orders from the group to steal the cars of Copts during the sit-in at the ‘Itihāddiyah [Presidential] Palace [December 2012]. He would attack a car once he spotted a cross hanging...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
General Muhammad Ibrāhim, Minister of Interior, has announced that more than 40 terrorist cells including more than 225 terrorists, involved in the assassination of police personnel, have been arrested. He stated that they mostly are affiliated to Ansār Bayt al Maqdis and Ajnād Misr groups. He...
Date of source: Thursday, October 2, 2014
The grand imam of the Azhar, Dr Shaykh Ahmad al- Tayyīb, received on Thursday Pope Tawadros and the accompanying delegation. The pope congratulated the Muslims on the occasion of Īd al- ‘Adhá (author not mentioned, al- Dustūr, Oct. 2)
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Fr. Istafanous Shihātah priest of the Samalūt Diocese has opened the Church of Saint Karas in Ma’sarah, Minya .It has been shut down by security forces who were afraid that it would be attacked by extremists. The Church leadership continues its constructions to prepare it for prayer. The priest...