CAIRO: Sharqiya Attorney General Ahmed De'bes referred Wednesday a Coptic girl rumored to have converted to Islam, to a care center where a committee from the Egyptian Center for Motherhood and Childhood will be formed to monitor her case, judicial (...)
CAIRO: Calm returned Wednesday to the Meet Bashar village in Sharqiya following police and army intervention, after a group of villagers attempted to burn down a church where they believed a Christian convert to Islam was being held against her (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization (EUHRO) presented a memo Monday to Minister of Justice Adel Abdel Hameed, demanding that a judge be appointed to investigate the Al-Qeddesine Church bombing that took place last January.
The (...)
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda is to send invitations to all state institutions and political parties to attend the Christmas celebrations scheduled to take place in the man Cathedral in Jan. 7.
Papal sources told DNE that the invitations include political (...)
CAIRO: Two kidnapped Copts were released late Wednesday in Qena, days after their families threatened to block the railway in protest of what was described as a recurring crime.
Hundreds of Copts in the Upper Egyptian City of Naga' Hammadi had (...)
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda met Monday with head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawy and Intelligence Chief Murad Mowafi to discuss the latest developments in the aftermath of the Maspero clashes.
On (...)
CAIRO: A poll conducted by the Egyptian Union for Human Rights found that 67 percent of Egypt's Copts will refrain from voting in the upcoming parliamentary elections in November, while only 23 percent said they will vote.
The poll, conduced from (...)
CAIRO: Leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church described their meeting with Military Chief of Staff Sami Anan Wednesday as “positive.”
Representing Pope Shenouda II, five church leaders met Anan, also member of the ruling military council, to (...)
CAIRO: Following a meeting with Pope Shenouda III Monday, Egypt's information minister said he promised not to repeat the “professional mistakes” that occurred in state TV's coverage of the Masepro clashes.
Rights groups have criticized state (...)
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda discussed with two members of the ruling military council the deadly Maspero clashes and unlicensed churches in a closed meeting Sunday.
Journalists weren't allowed to attend and both sides didn't give official press (...)
CAIRO: A fact-finding mission arrived in Aswan on Wednesday to launch an investigation into the incidents surrounding the Marinab Church, which started late last month.
A subsequent protest in Cairo demanding Coptic rights was met with violence (...)
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda presented Thursday all relevant documents and licenses for renovating a church partially burnt down in Marinab last week to the ruling military council and the Cabinet.
Coptic sources told Daily News Egypt that Shenouda's (...)
CAIRO: The Alexandria Urgent Cases Court adjourned on Sunday the Al-Qeddesine Church bombing case to Nov.13 to prepare the case documents.
The Orthodox Church's Holy Synod in Alexandria filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, (...)
CAIRO: The attorney general of the Higher State Security Prosecution called on Egypt's foreign ministry to coordinate with its British counterpart to obtain information on the bombing of Al-Qeddesine Church in Alexandria.
A memo was sent at the (...)
CAIRO: The attorney general of the Sohag prosecution remanded in custody four men pending investigation into Sunday's sectarian clashes in the Upper Egyptian governorate.
Rumors of a relationship between a Muslim man and a Coptic woman led to (...)
CAIRO: The Coptic Orthodox Church was served with court papers relaying the decision by 130 Copts to abandon the Church, leaving them without belonging to a recognized sect.
The decision reflects growing tension between members of the Coptic (...)
CAIRO: The Hisham Mubarak Law Center (HMLC) said Thursday that it created a network to provide legal aid to candidates and voters in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The HMLC lawyers, spread across the country, would help raise awareness of (...)
CAIRO: The Alexandria Emergency Court will investigate on Sept. 25 a complaint filed against Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, Minister of Interior Mansour El-Essawy, and Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud for their reluctance to investigate the (...)
CAIRO: The military commanders of the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan held separate meetings with Muslims and Copts in Merinab village Thursday evening to avert sectarian clashes triggered by the maintenance of a church.
Muslims gathered in front of (...)
CAIRO: A complaint accusing Egypt's interior minister and Cairo's security chief of ordering the beating of martyrs' families outside Hosni Mubarak's trial was referred Thursday to the East Cairo Prosecution.
The complaint accuses Interior (...)
CAIRO: One hundred and fifteen lawyers filed a complaint to Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud Monday demanding the arrest of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak if he sets foot in Egypt on charges of killing Egyptian police officers in Sinai (...)
CAIRO: Priest Boules Ewida accepted an invitation to attend "reconciliation iftar" Thursday at the Grand Nile Tower hotel to end a dispute that saw him take off his robes after allegedly being asked to do so by the hotel's security staff.
The (...)
CAIRO: The State Security Prosecution opened Wednesday an investigation into a complaint filed against former Interior Minister Habib El-Adly, accusing him of killing 27 Copts in the bombing of Al-Qeddesine Church in Alexandria on New Year's (...)
CAIRO: Evicted residents of Madinet El-Salam threatened on Tuesday to resume their sit-in after the government failed to deliver on its promises to give them apartments.
The residents — known as the Maspero protesters in reference to the state-TV (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Prime Minister apologized to a priest who was forced to take off his robes by a Cairo hotel security, saying the ministry of tourism is investigating the incident, the priest said.
“I strongly denounce the offensive search to (...)