Date of source: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
High ranking officials of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) together with their counterparts from the Coptic Evanglelical Church have issued a document of ten articles confirming the various rights of religious minorities and above all the Coptic denominations.
This was during a meeting in the MB...
Date of source: Sunday, February 5, 2012
Dr. Mustafá al-Fiqī, former manager of the presidential office, and Hilmī al-Nimnim, writer and president of Dār al-Hilāl, will discuss "Egyptian church: balances between religion and state" book on February 06, 2012 at 12pm.
The book is written by Hānī Labīb and it tackles contravrsial issues on...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The talk about foreign funding in Egypt for more than 10 years now had been inextricably linked to elections but what is being marketed on the mass media regarding Egypt's civil society most of the time involves inaccuracy, exaggeration and downplaying.
Date of source: Saturday, January 14, 2012
Cornelis Hulsman [Reviewer's Note: Director of CIDT and Editor in Chief of AWR] speaks to Watani about the Copts in Egypt, whose number, according to a former Egyptian official is…the number that brings on a headache.
Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2011
Media dialogue have become an important tool that can damage the relationships among the Egyptian people due to their sectarian nature.
Date of source: Monday, August 1, 2011
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The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a draft of a law to create the position of a special envoy to support the rights of religious minorities in the Middle East and Asia with Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as top priority. The draft was approved by a majority of 402 to 20.
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Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Georgette Qillini considers the historic relations between Muslims and Christians, finding that great cooperation was found in the Muhammad 'Alī era but has been strained given recent developments and sectarian tensions.
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Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2007
The Administrative Judiciary Court refused to recognize Max Michel as the patriarch of a Coptic Orthodox Church declaring that Pope Shenouda III is the only patriarch for Orthodox Copts. The execution of the ruling will imply the annulment of the identity card that had been issued by the Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2007
The victims of the attacks against Coptic property were compensated for the damages they incurred, and a reconciliation session was held in Isnā. Egyptian journalists call for a realistic and objective treatment of the increasing sectarian tension in the country.
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2007
Dr. Rafīq Habīb argues that citizenship principles will be the crowning achievement in Egypt’s development but they will not initiate the process of solving the problems in Egypt today. He referred to the danger of sedition and division in Egyptian society and to the compelling need to establish...