Date of source: Sunday, October 21, 2018
Kamal Zākhir, the Founder of the Secular Coptic Current, has undergone a harsh attack on the social networking sites after the sermon he delivered in Mary Girgis Church at al-Qulalī district, Cairo; moreover, the sermon created controversy between the conservative and reformist currents in the...
Date of source: Friday, September 13, 2013
The song, “We are the people, you are the people,” by the singer 'Alī al-Hagār provoked a wave of criticism and polarization between supporters and opponents of Morsi. Attempts were made to declare the singer an infidel. Now the singer responds, “The last song that I sang after the incidents in...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Mahmūd 'Azab, advisor of Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb of Al-Azhar said that houses of worship are holy. It was an act of barbarism and ignorance to storm a mosque or a church to damage it or to perform any other act there than an act of worship of God. He said: “Who attacks a mosque or a church...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 11, 2013
The three Egyptian Churches have agreed on the distribution of their members in the Constituent Assembly – the primary candidates as well as those on the reserve lists, among the sub-committees of the Constituent Assembly
Meanwhile, the Coptic organization, the Maspero Youth Union has submitted...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Giza security department is setting up checkpoints in order to speed the process of arresting the defendants in the al-Warrāq Church shooting following their identification by the security apparatuses. Investigations showed that they were jihadis (Nadā Hamdī, al-Dustūr, Oct. 28, p. 3). Read...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Revolutionary Union for Coptic Youth has stated that the government is responsible for the events taking place aiming at terrorizing the Copts. The Union stated, “How can we believe the Minister of Interior who carried out the attack on the Cathedral?” (Alī Rajab, al-Dustūr, Oct. 28, p. 4). ...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
Fr. Rafīq Greisch, the spokesman of the Catholic Church stated that the terrorist attacks against churches will not deter the Copts from attending services. Rather it will strengthen their will and their attachment to God and prayer. Greisch requested the state and all of the security departments...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Cairo Criminal Court convening in Tagammu’ al-Khamis has decided to reject the appeal submitted by 6 defendants in the case of the “Cathedral Events”. The judges ruled to renew their detention for another 45 days pending investigations (Mustafá Harbī, al-Dustūr, Oct. 28, p.4). Read original...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Najuīb Jubra’īl, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, has submitted a complaint to the general prosecutor requesting to dismiss Prime Minister Hāzim al-Biblāwī and Minister of Interior, General Muhammad Ibrahīm, due to their oversight in applying the emergency laws which led to...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Religious institutions have denounced the attack in al-Warrāq. Grand Imām, Dr. Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb, Al-Azhar Shaykh, stated that the act is a terrorist attack, which contradicts with morality and religion. Dr. Shawqī ‘Allām, the Grand Muftī, stated that attacking churches is prohibited...