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The daughter-in-law of Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, better known as Abū Islām, speaking to al-Ahālī newspaper, the mouthpiece of the leftist al-Tajammu’ (Grouping) Party, said the shaykh has left her and his grandson homeless, adding he kidnapped her son outside a police station and refused to grant her...
Meanwhile, public figures and movements in the Egyptian church rejected demands by some Christians to apply the Islamic sharī’ah on Christian personal status affairs.  
The interior minister’s remarks that the Dahshūr incidents were not sectarian in nature but were rather a brawl among a group of local residents in some area in Giza are nothing but a flawed simplification and a failed attempt to cover the truth.
The party told some leading members in the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) that they will not cede their wish to implement the Islamic sharī’ah. The Salafī Da’wah (Call) appealed to its deputy leader Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, a member of the constituent assembly...
Bishop Yūhannā Qultah, the deputy patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church, denied he received any invitations to attend the constituent assembly meeting on Monday (June 18) while the two other Orthodox and Evangelical churches confirmed they received those invitations for the meeting held at the...
Meanwhile, the Coptic Orthodox Church set criteria for electing or excluding candidates for the post of the 118th pope to succeed Pope Shenouda III, who passed away on March 17, adding the initial list of candidates will be announced soon. Bishop Bisāntī of Helwan and al-Ma’sarah and member of the...
“‘Amr Ibn al-‘Ās has conquered Egypt and we are going to repeat that Islamic conquest in order to bring back to Egypt its progress and dignity. The Muslim Brotherhood and its party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) aim to achieve sovereignty,” said Mursī during the rally. Skirmishes took place...
Meanwhile, the Maspero Youth Union (MYU) is holding a ceremony to commemorate the late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah on the occasion of the anniversary of the 40th day of his departure. [Rānyā Nabīl, al-Ahālī, April 18, p. 1] ...
Caretaker patriarch Bishop Bakhomius (Pachomius) denied any amendments in the 1957 statute on patriarch election, affirming that any other statements about extending the duration of this interim period pending the election of a new pope or amending the statute are not true. [Mahmūd Duwayr, al-Ahālī...
The Islamic Café, with two branches in Alexandria's Sīdī Bishr district and Port Said governorate, would separate between the two sexes and bans serving shīshāh. Young people on social networking web sites expressed disgruntlement over this café and one of them wondered about the legal solutions...

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