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Everyone thought that the Mubārak regime has already fallen after the Two Saints Church bombing in Alexandria in January 2011 and after he failed to protect the nation's Christians.
 CAIRO - The January 25 revolution is having a momentous impact on the Coptic Church. “The Copts will ignore Church policies,” surmised Mamoun Fendi, president of Fendi Associates, a Washington DC-based research group and think-tank, during the 18-day revolution.    
The founders of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, applied yesterday for its registration, according to Mohamed Saad el-Katatni, a leading official in the new party. The founding members of the party totalled 8,821, including 987 women and 93 Copts. They chose Refiq Habib, a Copt,...
Hundreds of Copts yesterday continued their strike outside the official TV building for the third day on Cairo Nile Corniche over recent sectarian violence, as revolutionaries are planning a march in support of national unity on Friday. The message of the march will be that Muslims and Christians...
The Egyptian government on Sunday vowed to beef up security around churches and use anti-terror laws against those fomenting sectarian sedition after 12 people died in clashes outside a church between Muslims and Christians in an area near Cairo.
The author, 'Abd al-Mun'im Sa’īd, writes about the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt. Sa'īd highlights the reality of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and stresses the fact that the group does not believe in a civil national state. The Brotherhood do not care about the independence of the state, but...
Business tycoon Naguib Sawiris, a Coptic Christian, said yesterday he would accept a Muslim president for Egypt, on the condition that he would be committed to “values of justice, and equality between a Muslim and a Christian, and between a man and a woman”. He added that he rejected a Christian...
On Tuesday, March 8th, Egyptian Christians refused to end their protests over a burned down church in Helwan, even after the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces promised to rebuild the church and bring the perpetrators to justice. Many Muslims joined Coptic demonstrators and a meeting was held...
The article provides a listing of articles on two controversial Fatwás issued by the Muftī of Egypt and a professor at the Azhar University. The first fatwá says that the prophet’s urine used to be given to his companions for blessings. The second one urges working women to breastfeed their male co...
Questions remain concerning the psychological, emotional, and mental state which makes a normal person kill hundreds of people. The future terrorist believes that Muslims alone are treated cruelly and neglected by the rest of the world. This ‘loneliness’ influences the terrorist’s psychology and...

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