Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Supreme State Security Prosecution started questioning Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, better known as Abū Islām, the owner of al-Omma (Nation) TV station, over reports lodged against him by lawyers Hāmid Hassan and Nāsir al-‘Asqalānī, members of the Egyptian Bar Association, that he was involved in...
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
Michel Aoun, a former Lebanese army commander and currently a politician and leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, warned that changing the regime of Syrian President Bashār al-Assad would wreak havoc with Lebanon and the Christians living inside it.
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel will not change the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
The three Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches agreed during a meeting under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius to start fasting for three days for all Christian congregation in Egypt as of early October while the last day will be dedicated for prayers at the St. Mark Cathedral in the...
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
Mājid Rīyād, the chairman of the Egyptian-U.S. businessmen association in the United States and the dean of the Egyptian community in New York, said he could not conceal his fears and concerns about the circumstances Egypt has been going through.
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
Some Coptic organizations announced planned protests outside the UN building in New York during Egyptian President Muhammad Mursī’s visit Monday
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
The mother of Albir ‘Ayyād, a Christian young man charged with disdaining religion, accused the police of arresting and detaining her son at al-Marj police station without a prior arrest warrant from the prosecution and also accused police officers there of torturing him and inciting prisoners to...
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
Several young lawyers lodged reports with the public prosecutor against an owner of a satellite channel on charges of insulting Christianity, threatening to humiliate the Holy Book and burning a copy of the Bible outside the U.S. embassy during protests against a film denigrating the Prophet...
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
Dr. Wahīd ‘Abd al-Majīd, the official spokesman for the constituent panel, warned of two dangerous proposed articles that have to do with the chapter on freedoms, adding the articles are being extremely haggled about for they threaten the freedom of the press.
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
The Azhar discredited reports by some mass media and an independent newspaper issued on Monday (September 23) that Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb has received a delegation representing all three Egyptian churches to reach an alliance in the face of the Salafists.