Date of source: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Egyptian churches rejected insistence by salafī members of the constituent assembly drafting a news constitution for Egypt that Copts should be compelled to pay the zakāh.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Today’s overview deals with calls by the Azhar on Muslim countries meeting at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah to withdraw the Arab initiative to settle the disputes between Israel and the Palestinians.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The voter registration committee on the election of the 118th pope for the Coptic Orthodox Church stopped receiving more contests against the voter lists, settling for the 150 challenges it had received. [
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Hishām Qandīl sent Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Dr. Muhammad Bahā’ al-Dīn to Addis Ababa to offer condolences to the Ethiopian leaders over the death of Abune Paulos, the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who passed away at the age of 76
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Hishām Qandīl sent Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Dr. Muhammad Bahā’ al-Dīn to Addis Ababa to offer condolences to the Ethiopian leaders over the death of Abune Paulos, the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who passed away at the age of 76
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Today’s overview deals with calls by a former senior U.S. diplomat, Dennis Ross, on Egypt to accept the reality and play by a set of rules, saying the record to date is not good: news reports suggest that more than 100,000 Coptic Christians have left Egypt; there have been new efforts to...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2012
Twenty-five human rights organizations and political parties called on the Shūrá Council to freeze the recent appointments of chief editors of state-run newspapers
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2012
Twenty-five human rights organizations and political parties called on the Shūrá Council to freeze the recent appointments of chief editors of state-run newspapers.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb praised President Muhammad Mursī's decision to re-establish the Senior Scholars...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2012
Journalist Khālid Salāh, the editor-in-chief of the independent al-Yawm al-Sābi’ newspaper, was assaulted and his car smashed outside the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC) on Wednesday (Aug. 8).
Salāh said during the investigations that a large number of bearded demonstrators carrying placards...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2012
Security agencies in Qena governorate, with follow-up efforts by Governor Maj. General ‘Ādil Labīb, contained a sectarian fitnah in Naqādah area between Muslims and Christians.