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Copts dream of a secure Egypt at Christmas
As Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas, hope and fear surrounds Egypt’s future
In Pictures: Egyptian Copts celebrate Christmas
Egyptian Cops attend Christmas mass, pay respects to those departed
Blogger charged with blasphemy released on bail
Alber Saber appeals three-year sentence for blasphemy
Fasten your seat belts please
The mood was tense last Thursday as anti-Islamist protesters continued their sit-in in Tahrir Square, demanding that President Mohammed Morsy annul the constitutional declaration he had issued a week before. Liberals and leftists had all come together to adopt a common stance: “No to absolute powers for the president.”They vowed to continue their sit-in until …
Is the Muslim Brotherhood’s sowing the seeds of its own destruction?
It is not an exaggeration or act of slander to say that the Muslim Brotherhood has always been the fascist alternative to what has been a reactionary regime. In the beginning of the 20th century, it entered into alliances with Egypt’s minor parties against the Wafd, who ruled the country and represented the people’s desire …
In pictures: Pope Tawadros II in St. Bishoy Monastery
Pope Tawadros: “If they implement Shari’a, we have many responses and ideas”
Papal enthronement
Pope Tawadros II: Background and biography
Pope Tawadros II: If they implement Shari’a, we have many responses and ideas
Pope Tawadros II speaks to the Daily News Egypt
Morsy faces choice, militancy or moderation?
The militant ambush on a police patrol in North Sinai bears the hallmarks of the Al-Qaeda terror group. Not only did the gunmen who carried out the attack raise black flags bearing the Muslim declaration of faith on them “There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his Prophet,” but they also chanted Allahu …
Salafis disrupt unity concert
Police ask concert goers to leave
Sectarian tensions rise in wake of crime boss death
Christians claim security forces don’t offer them protection.
Papal candidates narrowed to five
The Coptic Orthodox Church released on Saturday a preliminary list of papal candidates, narrowing it down from 17 candidates to five.
Charges dropped against Coptic boys
Nine and ten year old will not stand trial for contempt of religion
Human Rights Corner: The story of Mina and Nabil
The lack of state institutions and the story of Mina and Nabil
April 6 members attacked
“Make a trial for everyone in SCAF,” says Mohammed Adel a leader of the April 6 Youth Movement.
Remembering the Maspero massacre: one year on
A closer look at the massacre, and the unserved justice
Beheira governor suspends church demolition
Disputed church ownership causes Coptic friction
Maspero Youth Union files lawsuit
March and protest planned to simulate Maspero Massacre and demand prosecution against SCAF
Minister of culture intervenes in film censorship dispute
Minister promises that film about religious discrimination can be made without changes
Families of Maspero victims attack Maspero Youth Union
The Union of Maspero Victims’ families accuses the Youth Union of collecting donations on their behalf
Kids are the root of all evil
They go barefoot, are always smudgy and have the pleading look down pat, yet their eyes are 80 years old. They turn vicious if you decline their wares and insults and curses, shouted in small, shrill voices, will follow those who say no down the street.
Copts remember Maspero victims at Cathedral
Pachomius: “We live in a new era of martyrdom.”
Displacing Copts from Rafah or from Egypt?
A terrorist group demanded that Christian families leave the North Sinai town of Rafah. The government quickly carried out these orders sending all Christian employees of Rafah to work in Al-Arish and relocating their children to Al-Arish schools. The incident could have ended there, but fate decreed that the story be leaked to political circles. …
Hamzawy dismisses 100 day plan
Former MP discusses Egypt’s political future at Cairo University
Six Christian families return to Rafah
Rafah residents unite amid heightened security
Review: Columnists debate Al-Nour clashes, Constituent Assembly members and Sinai
Columnists explore the continuing internal dispute splitting the Salafi Al-Nour party. Others dedicate their columns to Sinai and the suggested idea of arming tribes to safeguard the peninsula. On another note, some commentaries have discussed the growing debate on the Constituent Assembly and its membership, focusing on the five members who resumed their roles within …
Families of Maspero victims seek justice
Maspero Youth Union considers lawsuit against state-owned newspaper
Egyptian Christians threatened in Rafah
Church and rights groups angry at government’s inaction
Conference to fight contempt of religion
Scientists discuss fighting contempt of religion
Morsy meets with Clinton
Religious tolerance a theme throughout president’s time in New York