Date of source: Monday, October 14, 2013
This came after the call ofMuslim Brotherhood and its allies to storm al-Tahrīr square on the first day on Eid the and to start a sit-in there. Mīnā Majdī, the spokesman of the Maspero Youth Union, stated, “We will be there in the square and we will form human chains to protect the people praying...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 29, 2014
About 37 Muslim Brotherhood members were sentenced to death, while 491 others have had jail sentences of 25 years of jail. 683 members were sentenced to death pending the opinion of the grand muftī, including the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Muhammad Badī’.
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2011
A symposium convened by leaders and representatives of the new political parties in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya stopped for about 30 minutes over a tough debate on the 2nd Article of the Egyptian constitution.
Coptic business magnet Najīb Sāwīris, the leader of the Free Egyptians...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
More than one thousand Copts protested on June 14, 2011, in Minya demonstrating the kidnapping of Nancy Majdī Fathī, 14-years-old, and Christina 'Izzat Fathī, 17-years-old, after they attended prayers on Sunday, June 12, 2011.
Residents of the village said that the two girls went out on Sunday,...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 2010
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III met with Ahmad Diyā’ al-Dīn, al-Minya governor. A source from the papal seat stated that they discussed the crisis of the new Maghāghah bishopric and that the governor was keen that Copts are not subject to persecution, but he must implement the law.
For his part,...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2010 to Friday, August 20, 2010
The Breakfast tables of Ramadan have become a battlefield for the political and religion forces.
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2010
After the end of the priest’s wife crisis, Miny witnesses a new crisis after more than 500 Copts demonstrated in Maghaghah bishopric protesting against the governor’s decision to suspend the license of the building of a new bishopric.
Bishop Aghathoun asserts that Copts will protest until they get...
Date of source: Friday, November 28, 2008
The insistence of each side of the dispute on its own conditions hinders the progress of the negotiations set to end the Abu Fana crisis. On the other hand, others reject any negotiations and insist on resorting to the courts.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999
The article is a half-page interview with Farid Fadel, an Evangelical Christian singer, composer, painter and medical doctor.