Date of source: Friday, May 16, 2014
A Sudanese Court has ruled to execute a 27 year old lady, who has converted to Christianity from Islam according to anonymous Sudanese judicial sources.
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Amīr ‘Ayād, founder of Christian Brotherhood Group, said that a large number of Coptic coalitions and unions will abstain from the anti-Brotherhood million-man protest on August 24. “Whoever is calling for it wants to put Copts at the first rows of the fight so that we redo the Maspero massacre...
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Bishop Mūsá of Youth greeted Muhammad Mursī for Eid al-Fitr and Muslims, as well as Christians for the Virgin Mary feast.
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Two months have passed since work first began on the Constituent Assembly and still its sub-committees did not finish drafting the final articles of the Constitution amidst an ongoing tug-of-war among its members, particularly about Article II, articles concerning the powers of the president and...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Reading through the articles of the constitution, I took a long pause at Article 40, which read, “The state shall be obliged to take all legislative and executive measures necessary to bolster the principle of equality between women and men in all political, cultural and socio-economic fields in a...
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Security Forces in Asyut have found a letter addressed to the office of the Muslim Brotherhood in Qena.
Date of source: Friday, September 27, 2013
Al-Shurūq reports on the 55 Christian families that were forced to leave the village of Diljā in al-Minya due to their fear of the Morsi supporters. Thugs have used the opportunity to extort them, attack their houses, and kidnap for ransom. The Coptic families still fear returning to their village...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2013
A popular delegation that included representatives of political factions, legal organizations, and Azhar scholars has visited Diljā accompanied by the governor of al-Minya, Salāh Ziyādah. He assured that the police control the security situation in the village with the assistance of the army. He...
Date of source: Monday, September 30, 2013
The Constituent Assembly has decided to maintain the Article 3 as “Christians and Jews” rather than amending it to read “non-Muslims”. Sources stated to the paper that this was in order calm down the Salafīs (Muhammad Sālim and Rāniā Rabi’, al-Shurūq, Sept. 30, p. 1). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Friday, September 20, 2013
The caretaker of the Diljā church (Virgin Mary and Bishop Abram Church), Bishop Younas, stated on the other hand that no forceful eviction has taken place with the village’s Copts. He stated that the Copts left their village voluntarily and not because they were threatened by anybody and that any...