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Khadija was born in 1998 in Burundi but has been living in Egypt since she was 2 years old. She attended Africa Hope learning center for more than 10 years and defines her experience there as being really bad. She could just identify two things that she liked. First of all, when she began...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Since President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī rose to power in 2014, the Egyptian government has built over 600 bridges and roughly 21 new axes for over 85 billion EGP (5.3 billion American dollars). The government is also planning to build a thousand overpasses costing 130 billion EGP (roughly 8 billion...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
A project to build a two-kilometer bridge on al-Ahrām Street in Heliopolis [Miṣr al-Jadīda] next to the historic Basilica of the Holy Virgin [kanīsat al-Bāzīlīk] has caused uproar. The people living in the region are rejecting the project due to the negative effects on the region’s distinct...
Date of source: Sunday, November 22, 2020
Dr. Munīr Ḥannā, bishop of the Episcopal-Anglican Church for the Alexandria region, participated in a mass commemorating the anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The mass was headed by Rev. Krikor-Okosdinos Coussa, bishop for the Armenian Catholic Church, at the Armenian Catholic Church of St....
Date of source: Thursday, July 4, 2019
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy Church celebrated on Wednesday the day of St. Thomas the Apostle, patron of the Chaldean Church and Patriarchate.
The Apostle Mar Thomas was a preacher of Mesopotamia (Iraq), the founder of the Chaldean Church of the East and the Messenger of Central Asia and he...
Date of source: Thursday, June 27, 2013
A number of Coptic movements announced their participation in June 30 demonstrations in Tahrir Square and around the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis. They made it clear that they will not leave unless Morsi steps down. Copts participating in the demonstrations warned from raising any religious...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The postponement of a meeting that was scheduled to take place between President Muḥammad Mursī and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawāḍrūs II at the al-Itiḥādīyah presidential palace on Tuesday (November 20) raised controversy in political circles.
Date of source: Saturday, November 24, 2012
Reactions of Egyptians on the streets escalated over decrees by President Muhammad Mursī on Thursday (November 22) sacking the public prosecutor and immunizing his decisions as political, betraying deep divisions within the society as opponents termed them as “rehash of past dictatorship”. [Author...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2014
The Ansār Bayt al- Maqdis announced its responsibility for the explosions that led to the death of three army conscripts and injuring 11 others in Sinai and Cairo yesterday.
Date of source: Saturday, May 3, 2014
Three conscripts and a civilian lost their lives and 12 others have been injured in two suicide attacks in Sinai, and an explosive device in Heliopolis.