Date of source: Sunday, February 15, 2015
Egypt’s foreign ministry condemned yesterday’s attacks in the Danish city of Copenhagen which targeted a coffee shop and a synagogue and resulted in the deaths of two civilians. A Swedish artist attending a seminar on free speech hosted in the coffee shop was among the dead. The artist had...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Article about loosing faith an becoming an agnostic in a very religious society.
Date of source: Monday, January 5, 2015
CAWU Researcher Rene Witteveen met with Mina Magdy, General Coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union on October 10th 2014.
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Madbouly Bookstore in Cairo, that also functions as a publishing house, refused to publish and distribute a book of Hamdy Al-Assuity and Magdy Khalil entitled "Contempt of Religions in Egypt". The authors claim representatives from Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Religious Endowments put pressure on...
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Sherif Gaber, a young Egyptian, has been on the run in his country since The Suez Canal University reported him to the authorities for setting up an anti-Islam Facebook page in 2013. This happened after he openly argued with a professor at the University during a lecture about homosexuality. A...
Date of source: Saturday, September 19, 2015
Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Daily News Egypt and al-Bawaba news all report about the ban on reporting on the killings of Mexican tourists in Egypt’s Western desert. There is growing public anger against the absence of transparency and increased media gags.
Date of source: Saturday, September 19, 2015
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W. Winston Skinner reported on September 17, 2015 in the Times-Herald that an Egyptian native Christian missionary, in the article called pastor X, “told about 95 people at the International Leadership Team in Carrollton on Tuesday that...
Date of source: Monday, March 23, 2015
Religious freedom around the world
Jihād al-Khāzin analysed religious freedom around the world between 2007 and 2013. Focusing on state and social oppression against religious communities around the globe, al-Khāzin finds deteriorating conditions for all monotheistic religions. Although he finds...
Date of source: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Two Turkish journalists face prison for publishing the cover of Charlie Hebdo
Istanbul (Reuters) - A journalist from the Republic Daily newspaper has said that a prosecutor in Turkey has sought prison terms for two Turkish journalists for their publication of the cover of the French satirical...