Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Al-Akhbār writes that the new Minister of Information, Salāh 'Abd al-Maqsūd, has announced that he will work towards moving the media from dependency on the government to a media that professionally reflects “the pulse of the Egyptian street”.
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2012
On Friday (August 18), Major General Usāmah Al-Saghīr, First Assistant of the Interior Ministry for Security in Cairo, welcomed an ecclesiastical delegation to his office, which was headed by the General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Yu’annis
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2012
The Coptic Ethiopian Church also announced last night that First Patriarch Father Paulos died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 76
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2012
Archbishop Abune Paulos, First Patriarch of the Coptic Ethiopian Church, went into cardiac arrest and died yesterday at the age of 76 in an Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital Ethiopia after a struggle with illness.
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2012
Khālid al-Misrī, Secretary General of the National Association for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms (NADRF), made a complaint to the Attorney General, Counselor ‘Abd al-Mijīd Mahmūd, accusing Muhammad Abū Hāmid, a member of the dissolved parliament, of inciting fitnah tā’ifīyah between Muslims...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2012
Dozens of members of the “Copts 38” movement [a group of Copts that call the Coptic Orthodox Church to allow second marriages]. This movement demonstrated in front of the presidential palace yesterday (August 17) evening against the addition of text to Article II of the Constitution, which would...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2012
Some Egyptians are busy with efforts to impose a constitution which expresses their viewpoint alone without consideration for Egypt as a whole, according to Dr. Rif’at al-S’aīd.
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2012
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church on Thursday (August 16) announced the death of Abune Paulos at a hospital in Addis Ababa after suffering a heart attack. He was 76.
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2012
The public prosecution set the August 23 session to try Islām ‘Afīfī, chief editor of al-Dustūr newspaper, before the Giza Criminal Court on charges of publishing false reports slandering the president of the republic.
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2012
Prime Minister Hishām Qandīl is holding a session of dialogue after ‘Id al-Fitr holiday with representatives of non-governmental organizations and civil society in Egypt to discuss legal steps to pass a law on NGOs