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In a bloody terrorist attack by extremist jihādī groups supported by jihādī elements in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (Aug. 5), sixteen Egyptian army soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in the city of Rafah while they were starting to have their iftār meal. “Jihādists sneaked from the Gaza...
Armed men blew up two Muslim shrines with explosives, in separate areas in the North Sinai (evening, Sunday 4).  Security sources said that the explosives had been placed next to Sheikh Hamīd Abū Jarīr and Sheikh Salīm es-Sherīf Abū Jarīr's tombs and detonated them from a distance. The two domes of...
 Another Copt, Kamāl John, was attacked while crossing the street in north Sinai. John, a paramedic at north Sinai first aid unit, was buying water and a dish of oriental sweets for his colleagues, with whom he was celebrating his son’s success in high school. All of a sudden, a car passed by the...
.The one year of Morsi’s rule was one of the worst years for Copts, Pope Tawadros said on one of the television programs.  He explained that it was a disappointing year, pointing to the attack on the Cathedral which had not occurred over 19 centuries. The year of Morsi’s rule left 37 Copts killed,...
Spokesman of President Mursī, Dr. Yāsir ꞌAlī, yesterday commented on statements delivered by President Mursī on Egyptian Christians describing them as “minorities”. Accusing media of delivering false reports, ꞌAlī argued that media have taken President Mursī’s statements out of context and that the...
Slightly more than one hundred years ago on November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration was signed. The recently celebrated anniversary of the declaration led to expressions of appreciation, critique, hope, and fear through global media outlets, such as the Huffington Post, The Guardian, and the...
The Coptic Street [community] witnessed several events during the past week… We follow the most prominent of them in the proceeding article. 
On Sunday the Egyptian Authority declared that they had attacked one of the leaders of the Anṣār Bayt al-Maqdis that is supporting  Dāʿish [ISIS/ISIL] during a security attempt to arrest him in al- ʿArīsh.
  Egypt is facing a confrontation against terrorist groups concentrated in northern Sinai targeting military installations and buildings and extending their activity recently to the capital.
  I borrow this title from these two important volumes published by al-Ahrām Center for Political and Strategic Studies in two parts in 1996 and 1998, and which presented a unique study on the religious reality in Egypt in terms of institutions and the country's unique diversity of Islamic,...

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