CAIRO: The Egyptian educational system suffers from a large economic crisis because of shortages in the budget and the deteriorating situations of teachers, said the chairman of the Institute of Educational Research, Kamal Mogheth, at a symposium (...)
CAIRO: Demonstrators marched to Ramses Street and the Coptic Hospital before arriving at Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday, memorializing protestors killed at the Maspiro clashes last month.
A coffin with photos of the deceased led the march. Scout (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian government officials told a group Coptic Christians concerned about rising sectarianism in Egypt from Egypt and abroad that foreign powers were behind the violence at a meeting Tuesday.
The Coptic delegation, made up of Egyptians (...)
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda III, head of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church, received two phone calls today offering condolences for those killed during last Sunday's Maspiro clashes.
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians and Muslims yesterday attended the funeral for the martyrs killed during the Sunday clashes between Copts and the military forces outside the Egyptian Radio and Television Headquarters (Maspiro).
The (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's former Minister of Interior, already incited for one charge and facing murder charges, is facing a new lawsuit. Habib al-Adly is accused of killing 27 Coptic Christians in the bombing outside Two Saints Church in Egypt's Mediterranean (...)
CAIRO: Around 100 Coptic Christians threatened to convert to another Orthodox sect if the divorce crisis is not solved.
They demonstrated outside Abbasyia Cathedral and called on the Egyptian Pope Shenouda III to consider their demands regarding (...)
CAIRO: Many of Egypt's political powers, coalitions and political parties are calling for Mohamed el-Baradei to replace Essam Sharaf as Egypt's prime minister. They have decided to march from Tahrir Square to the Cabinet building and close Qasr (...)
CAIRO: Churches in Egypt issued a statement thanking Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the cabinet for issuing a unified law regarding building places of worship after the law had been put on hold for several (...)