Date of source: Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Dr. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Rīḥān, General Director of research and archaeological studies in South Sinai, has confirmed that religious tolerance in Egypt was a historical reality. He cites a Quranic verse calling for the preservation of Christian, Jewish and Islamic sacred sites. The verse itself, Verse 40...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 10, 2019
For many decades, Copts have suffered from arbitrariness in the construction and renovation of churches. After they called again and again for issuing a law for ending such a situation and preventing the repeated incidents of sectarian strife, the June 30 Revolution erupted to revive their...
Date of source: Sunday, June 2, 2019
Yemeni people are the last victims of the Arab Spring. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, people filled the streets of Yemen, demanding change in the regime of the government of Ṣāliḥ.
The wide national uprising against ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh Ṣāliḥ was also representing minority groups such as the Ḥūthī...
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2019
The General Secretary of the Egyptian National Movement Party in Alexandria, Muḥammad Shuʿayb said in press statements today that he always aims to instill a spirit of love and fraternity among the Egyptian people, indicating that he insisted on appointing 50% of the party’s general secretaries...
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2019
The death of Muḥammad Mursī, Egypt’s first elected president since the 2011 revolution, on June 17 sparked a wave of controversy and conflicting truths between human rights organizations and Egyptian media. Mursī died in court in Cairo where he was on trial facing charges of espionage.
Date of source: Monday, April 8, 2019
Egyptologist Zāhī Ḥawwās unveiled a 2500-year-old mummy of a priest at an ancient cemetery in Minya, south of Cairo, in a live broadcast on Discovery Channel on Sunday.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
In the aftermath of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and the peace negotiations which followed from 1977 to 1979, and under measures to bring about peace between Egypt and Israel, the late President Anwar al-Sādāt asked Pope Shinūda III that Christians visit Jerusalem. However, Pope Shinūda refused to do...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Two pastors, a civil servant, a professor and two students on their way to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo – what sounds like the beginning of a joke turned actually out to be a very educational trip through multiple millenniums of ancient Egyptian history. Blazing our trail through masses of people,...
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2019
This report aims to narrate the visit of the Dutch delegation of pastors to the village and
Monastery of Dayr el-Maimun. The delegation wanted to explore the historical heritage and
spirituality of Egyptian Christians as well as find ways to fight the crisis of faith in the
Netherlands and Europe...
Date of source: Friday, April 12, 2019
In his book “In the Scenes of the Press and Politics”, the Journalist ‘Atif Al-Ghamrī swiftly and smoothly recounts his own experience and shows how the role of journalism is deeply rooted in the conscience of the Egyptian nation since its debut.