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The article is about an initiative, launched by the founder of the Jihād Group, calling on Islamic groups to stop the violence and killing.
Dozens of mothers and wives of suspects in al-Tā’ifah al-Mansūrah case demonstrated against the Ministry of Interior for not releasing their relatives.
This article resumes Father Būlus Bāsīlī’s discussion of his prison experience.
Eight bishops and twenty-four priests were arrested and imprisoned in 1981, an act which had no precedent in Egyptian modern history. After twenty five years Rūbīr al-Fāris interviews one of these priests, Athanasius Butrus, pastor of the Church of Mār Girgis in Manshiyt al- Sadr, to talk...
An examination of the crisis 25 years ago between President Sadat and the Coptic Orthodox Church, during which Pope Shenouda was confined in Anba Bishoi Monastery in the Western Desert, and banned from acting as patriarch of the Coptic Church. Many other bishops and priests were also detained, and...
Sources within the "banned" Jihād group have recently revealed that the group is currently considering a non-violence initiative, in response to repeated calls from former leaders of the group to reject violence, Ahmad Imbābī writes. Unlike al-Jamā‘ah al -Islāmīya, the Jihād group has no "...
An Egyptian Christian called Hani Samir Tawfiq is accused of being a member of the Qa´ida network. His mother said that he tried to convert to Islam but men of religion convinced him not to convert. He later joined one of the cells of the Islamic groups and they helped him to travel to Saudi...
Eighteen suspects of Egypt’s Jund Allāh [God’s soldiers] have ended their hunger strike after some of their demands were met, according to well-placed informed fundamentalist sources.
The mysterious disappearance of a Jihād Group leader, ‘Abboud al-Zumur, from the Limān Tora Prison has led many inmates to threaten hunger strike. The wife of al-Zumur, Umm al-Haytham, has called upon the public prosecutor, the interior minister, and Egyptian human rights organizations about an...
The sit in of a group of Sudanese in Cairo ended in bloodshed with around 600 people being taken to Shibīn al-Kum prison.

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