Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2014
By: mcndirect
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Observers believe that the information provided by Eman Morcos, a Coptic woman who recently escaped from kidnapping, raises serious concerns about the role of the police in the diappearance of Christian Egyptians.
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 2014
By: mcndirect
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A member of the Muslim Brotherhood attacked a Coptic family on Friday at Al Ma'sarah village in Malawy, south of Minya governorate (Upper Egypt).
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
By: mcndirect
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Al-Rawdal al-Haditha private school in 6 of October City in Giza governorate is segregating Christian and Muslim students, said Rev. Refaat Fikri, pastor of the Evangelical Church in Shubra and chairman of the Evangelical Church Information and Publishing Committee.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2014
By: fikraforum
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When Abdul Fattah al-Sisi made public his intention to seek Egypt’s presidency this past March, he did so in his military uniform. While typical for the outgoing defense minister, many saw it as an affirmation that the country would be a military republic with Sisi at the helm.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
By: mcndirect
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Security forces in Minya arrested Tuesday a new defendant among other suspects of breaking into and bombing the Evangelical Church in Mallawi, southern Minya (Upper Egypt).
Date of source: Monday, September 22, 2014
By: copticsolidarity
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- President El-Sissi addresses the UN this week.
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2014
By: DAWN.COM
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WHEN protesters successfully called for the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last year, their rhetoric played on fears that Egypt’s first democratically elected president and his Muslim Brotherhood were seeking to turn the country into a theocracy.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2014
By: Middle East Research and Information Project
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More significant than what ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi says before the UN this week is what his presence signifies. His first address to the
“international community” caps a year-long effort to normalize his seizure of power on July 3, 2013 and banish the taint of putschism
Date of source: Saturday, September 13, 2014
By: Ahram Online
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Tonight the Coptic Museum is celebrating Coptic New Year with a series of lectures about Coptic arts,history, the Coptic calendar, and its relation to the ancient Egyptian calendar. Afterwards, a music concert
will follow.
Date of source: Thursday, September 18, 2014
By: edmontonjournal
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It’s not every day that a pope comes to Edmonton.
Edmonton’s Coptic Christians packed a Mill Woods church Wednesday night for the arrival of Pope Tawadros II.
Date of source: Thursday, September 18, 2014
By: bostonglobe
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ONCE AGAIN the United States finds itself embroiled in a debate over whether or not to “go to war.” It’s a choice the country shouldn’t have to make, and it wouldn’t with a bigger, more lethal clandestine service like France or Israel has.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 27, 2014
By: Carnegie Middle East Center
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The setting of a minimum and maximum wage for Egypt’s civil service will help the system
become more transparent and equal. But comprehensive reform is still needed.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
By: allafrica
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Pope Tawadros II, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday 1 September.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 13, 2013
By: allAfrica.com
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Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II urged the Egyptian people on Tuesday to renounce violence and avoid bloodshed.
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By: ECFR
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On Wednesday 21 August EU foreign ministers will meet in emergency session to consider their
response to the latest developments in Egypt. The EU is considering a range of measures to express
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
By: Associated Press
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CAIRO — The military chief who ousted Egypt's elected president called on the public Wednesday to take to the streets to give him and the police a mandate
Date of source: Wednesday, July 3, 2013
By: New Republic
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Morsi and his supporters are outnumbered, and the protestors show no sign of wavering.
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Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
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CAIRO — Only a day after the June 30 protests, the army gave President Mohammed Morsi a 48-hour ultimatum to “listen to the will of the people,” after which the army will take it upon itself to announce a road map to a solution.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
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Observers are shocked. They do not understand as they watch millions of Egyptians marching in protest, in every major city in Egypt, against President
Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Stratfor
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With less than 24
hours left before the
military's ultimatum
to Egyptian President
Mohammed Morsi
comes into effect,
various political
factions from the
Muslim Brotherhood,
members of the
Date of source: Saturday, July 13, 2013
By: Newsmax
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Coptic Christians in Egypt have come under harsh attack since the overthrow
of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi — with members of the community
kidnapped, killed, and their houses of worship trashed amid charges they
Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Geopolitical Diary
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The Egyptian military issued an ultimatum Monday, demanding that Egyptian
President Mohammed Morsi and the ruling Muslim Brotherhood start a dialogue
with opposition members within 48 hours, or risk the military stepping in to
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
By: Daily News Egypt
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Egypt’s representative to the United Nations, Walid Mahmoud Abdel Nasser, told the 25th United Nations Council for Human Rights Monday that Egypt is determined to protect human rights, citing the newly ratified constitution as proof of the country’s dedication to “building democratic institutions
Date of source: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
By: Foreign Affairs
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Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
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CAIRO — It took only minutes for activists to witness Egypt’s controversial new protest law in action on Nov. 26.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
By: arabist.net
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yesterday, as a who's-who of Egyptian activists and human rights workers was harassed and detained for peacefully protesting, I thought back to US Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks when he visited Egypt earlier this.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
By: Newser
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Egypt's revolutionary activists, relatively muted since the country's July coup, showed a new vigor Tuesday, scuffling with supporters of the military-backed government in Cairo's Tahrir Square and wrecking a state memorial dedicated to protesters killed in the country's nearly three years of t
Date of source: Thursday, December 12, 2013
By: LinkedIn
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"Egyptian voters might well be asked to approve the new constitution without knowing much about when their new president and parliament will be elected or what sort of system will govern the parliament.
Date of source: Monday, June 17, 2013
By: meforum
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Syria and Egypt are dying. They were dying before the Syrian civil war broke out and before the Muslim Brotherhood took power in Cairo. Syria has an insoluble civil war and Egypt has an insoluble crisis because they are dying.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2013
By: foreignpolicyjournal
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DOHA — The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet from where I am sitting, but such tranquility hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
By: RT
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Amid the ongoing crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian authorities have arrested Essam El-Arian, the vice chairman of the Freedom and Justice party. He was one of the few Brotherhood leaders remaining free since the ouster of President Morsi.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
By: egyptindependent
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About this time last week, the bodies were being ferried into the Virgin Mary Church where they had been shot barely 24 hours before, a grim liminal irony that - as some pointed out - turned a wedding into a funeral in the space of two days.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
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CAIRO — Several months ago, sometime after the volcanic period that began in November, which witnessed Mohammed Morsi declaring himself Egypt's omnipotent ruler, the referendum on the constitution, the beginning of mounting violence and anger, fierce political confrontation, and a raging fire of
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: BBC
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Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo.
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Date of source: Thursday, June 20, 2013
By: meforum
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Recently, the journalist Paul Sheehan, reflecting on the Woolwich beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby, invited consideration of the view of Muslim violence in authoritative Islamic texts.
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2013
By: middleeastmonitor
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A German expert in international communications has expressed her surprise that the Egyptian media have rejected the freedoms opened up by ousted president Mohamed Morsi and opted instead for the old, military-led authoritarianism.
Date of source: Monday, October 7, 2013
By: middle-east-online
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Rights groups say more than 40 churches have been attacked since August 14, including 11 in Minya and eight in Assiut.
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Date of source: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
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The trial of the deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi — postponed until Jan. 3, 2014 — became an opportunity to escalate an unfortunate further divisions among the Egyptian people.
Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
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CAIRO — Sinai novelist and activist Mosaad Abu Fajr was jailed for nearly three years under the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak for his campaign “Wedna Ne`ish” (We Want To Live), which protested issues faced in the Sinai and among the Bedouin community.
Date of source: Monday, November 11, 2013
By: soundviewmediapartners
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Filmmaker Lillie Paquette follows key opposition figures and young democracy activists as they struggle against extraordinary odds and at great personal risk to remove an uncompromising U.S.-backed authoritarian regime determined to stay in power.