by Publisher | Nov 29, 2017 | Egypt, News |
Twenty-one churches in Egypt’s southern rural Minya governorate can restore, expand and rebuild their churches after receiving approval from the Minya Governor. Governor Essam al-Bedeiwi approved the 21 applications over the last six months. Some of the churches had...
by Publisher | Nov 27, 2017 | Egypt, News |
ABERDEEN, Scotland (Morning Star News) – Fear of Islamist attacks was again cited as the cause of stopping worship in Egypt this month, even though parishioners said local Muslims supported the opening of the shuttered church outside Cairo, sources said. Anba Morcos,...
by Publisher | Jul 19, 2016 | Egypt, News |
Weekend of violence abetted by impunity. Istanbul, Turkey (Morning Star News> – One Christian is dead, several others have been wounded and a fire gutted a church building after Muslims across Egypt waged a weekend of violence against Copts. Full story Source: Morning...
by Publisher | Jul 14, 2016 | Egypt, News |
An Egyptian bishop has called for an end to discrimination against the country’s Christians, urging the government to do more to control the situation in villages across the country. Full story Source: World Watch...
by Publisher | Jul 6, 2016 | Egypt, News |
Islamic month of Ramadan marked by violence. ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A Coptic pharmacist was stabbed to death and then beheaded by a group of Salafi Muslims in Egypt’s Delta region Monday (July 4), the latest in a string of attacks against Copts during...
by Publisher | Jun 22, 2016 | Egypt, News |
To convert away from Islam is “treason” that should carry the death penalty, according to Sunni Islam’s topmost religious authority. “The penalty for an open apostate, departing from the community, is well stipulated in Sharia,” Al-Azhar’s...
by Publisher | May 31, 2016 | Egypt, News |
Threatened three times before arrest, he faces life in prison ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A Coptic human rights activist arrested this month by Egyptian security officials faces the possibility of life in prison on concocted charges because of his efforts...
by Publisher | Apr 21, 2016 | Egypt, News |
Ongoing ‘phenomenon’ targets hundreds of Egyptian Christians The News Earlier this month, a young Christian boy was kidnapped in Upper Egypt, before being released 12 days later after the payment of a hefty ransom. Anthonius Farag, 13, was snatched outside his school...
by Publisher | Jan 14, 2016 | Egypt, News |
Bishoy Kamel was supposed to walk free from his military service in February. Instead, his family collected his body three months earlier. The corpse bore “signs of torture”, the family said. “When we reached the hospital that afternoon, we saw Bishoy’s body reposed...
by Publisher | Jan 8, 2016 | Egypt, News |
Egypt’s Secular Party has called on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to support legislation which cancels the blasphemy law, because, in the words of lawyer Hamdi al-Assyouti, it has “become a tool in the hands of extremists against minorities, thinkers, and the...
by Publisher | Dec 17, 2015 | Analysis, Egypt, Front Page Analysis, Libya, North Korea, Tunisia |
The Arab Spring, which began five years ago today (17th December) started with a wave of protests in Tunisia followed by other Arab countries. It was positively acclaimed as a social movement demanding an end to human rights violations, government corruption and...
by Publisher | Dec 16, 2015 | Egypt, Libya, News |
Hard pressed at home, slain abroad. Today, 16 December, is the date set for the signing of a UN-facilitated agreement on forming a new national unity government in Libya. Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has been engulfed by conflicts between...
