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Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, called for establishing a council for Egyptian churches to be tasked with negotiating with the new regime to achieve Copts’ demands, stressing unity of Christian denominations to seek solutions for Coptic problems, including the...
[This is a full transcript of an interview made on December 2, 2011] The results of the first round of the Egyptian elections show that Islamist parties appear to have won by a landslide. The Muslim Brotherhood created the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) that has apparently received 40-45 percent...
Following publication of a report detailing video evidence from the October 9, 2011 attack on a mostly Coptic demonstration at Maspero, a few people have sent in additional evidence. This appendix report updates the original text. Officer Fires on Protestors – Maspero (30 seconds)
News is almost never as it appears.  On December 1st I went with investigative researcher and former lieutenant with the Egyptian coastal security Intelligence Rā’id al-Sharqāwī to Tahrīr square.  The square is currently blocked for traffic by perhaps 2,000 demonstrators asking people wanting to...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) [non-governmental federation for human rights organizations founded in 1922. Its general secretariat is in Paris] demanded from the Egyptian authorities to make a fair investigation in the Maspero incidents and hold those involved to...
  The report prepared by the fact-finding committee formed by the National Council for Human Right (NCHR) has blamed "unknown civilians" for stirring up the events that left 28 persons dead and dozens injured following clashes between army personnel and Coptic protestors.  
  Maspero's youth union decided to organize a celebration to pay a tribute to the Maspero martyrs next Friday starting at 2 p.m. in the yard of Saint Morcos Cathedral in 'Abbāsīyah followed by another funerary march at 3 p.m. heading from the Cathedral to Tahrīr Square accompanied by music and...
Before the end of World War II there was a German-origin businessman called Oskar Schindler who successfully saved more than 1,000 Jewish Poles from a total 4,000 crammed by Nazi Germany in Krakow to move to the gas chambers in Auschwitz.
  The Coptic Organizations Union in Europe “AYKOR” denounced the arrest of the Egyptian Blogger Michael Nabīl and sending the activist 'Alā’ 'Abd al-Fattāh to prison. It asked the Military Council to release Nabīl immediately. Nabīl was sent to a mental hospital last week after being arrested for 7...
  In all events, people always accuse unknown doers of igniting strife in the country. In fact, those igniters of strife are identified and known, but everyone disclaims responsibility.  

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