Date of source: Saturday, April 19, 2014
Salafīs have stopped Shaykh Muhammad ‘Iz al-Dīn Abd al-Sattar, First Deputy for preaching affairs, Ministry of Endowments, from entering al-Rahmān al-Rahīm mosque in MutāhrahVillage, Abū Qurqās district, Minya. Instead they allowed Shaykh Muhammad Ya’qūb to give the Friday sermon.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 30, 2014
After he has saved 491 Muslim Brotherhood members from death, the naming that some Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers have given Shaykh Shawqī ‘Allām, Grand Muftī of Egypt, is no longer applicable.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2019
On December 31, Egyptian President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī announced that a high counter-sectarian commission is to be formed and its work put immediately into effect. The presidential decree came after a police man shot dead a man and his son in Minya, which was the most recent incident after a...
Date of source: Thursday, April 10, 2014
Copts in Minya, whose churches suffered a frenzied campaign of arson, vandalism and looting on August 14 last year after the Rabi’ah and al- Nahdah sit ins were dispersed, are resorting to pray in their burnt churches.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Fr. Istafanous Shihātah priest of the Samalūt Diocese has opened the Church of Saint Karas in Ma’sarah, Minya.
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2014
‘Iffat al-‘Iryān, the husband of ‘Imān Marcos, known as the woman of Jabal al- Tayr that the leaders of the church sent his wife to an unknown place until things calm down in the village.
Date of source: Saturday, September 27, 2014
‘Imān Marcus Sarophim, who is known as the “lady of the Jabal al- Tayr village” whose absence from home and her alleged abduction has led to acts of violence, has returned to her house.
Date of source: Friday, September 26, 2014
Minya security forces succeeded yesterday in releasing secondary school Coptic student.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2014
General Muhammad Ibrahim, Minister of Interior, held a closed meeting with a church delegation to discuss the crisis of Jabal al- Tāyr in Minya.