Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2012
On the other hand, an official source said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is likely to issue a complementary constitutional declaration that would set the powers of the president a few days ahead of handover of power to an elected head of state.
The step is expected after the runoff...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Copts’ choices will not be out of these three after they dropped Dr. ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh out of their calculations the moment he struck alliances with Islamist groups, let alone his past as one of the leading turncoats from the Muslim Brotherhood group and the emergence of file photos of...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
He said that the whole world knows that Egyptians want the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah, adding Egyptians’ wish to have their country pursuing Islamic laws should not be a reason for concern.
“I pledge to preserve churches and monasteries so that everyone feels he/she lives in a nation...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Counselor Walīd Mas’ūd, head Burj al-‘Arab Prosecution Office, has ordered that the individual suspected of having killed five people in Alexandria be remanded under custody pending investigation. The suspect claims he was taking vengeance for their mistreatment of him (Shīrīn Tāhir, al-Wafd, Feb....
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2012
A large number of candidates running in the third round of the parliamentary elections paid visits to the church to congratulate it over the New Year while candidates of the Salafī al-Nūr Party refrained.
Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, refused to meet any candidates, adding that the...
Date of source: Monday, January 19, 2015
Since the official start of the registration process on 12 January, the Ministry of Solidarity issued permits for 43 Egyptian NGOs to observe the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Ayman ʿAbd al-Jawwād, general manager of NGOs at the ministry.
Date of source: Saturday, June 2, 2012
Penetrating the Coptic boycott against Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Muhammad Mursī for the first time, two envoys of Bishops Bula and Armiyā, one of them a businessman, held a secret meeting with Secretary General of the group’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) ‘Isām al-‘Iryān. [...
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2012
Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod, severely criticized Cornelis Hulsman, Editor-in-Chief of the electronic news bulletin Arab-West Report (AWR), over the latter’s last week interview with al-Watan newspaper in which he accused the senior clergyman of being "sectarian”. [...
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2012
The Egyptian Center for Human Rights (ECHR) expressed concerns over escalated “sectarian” statements by some leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political wing the Freedom and Justice Party that Copts voted for Mubārak’s last prime minister, Ahmad Shafīq, in the first round of the...
Date of source: Sunday, December 4, 2011
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) has registered violations of the electoral laws in the first round of the Egyptian elections. The different types of violation are hindering the task of the polling stations, delaying the commencement of their work and keeping voters waiting for long...