The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a shop owner's house Monday . A report was made of the incident and the defendant was referred to the prosecution for (...)
Railway traffic was disrupted on Wednesday after thousands of citizens gathered on railroad tracks in Bergayah village in Minya Governorate to protest the deaths of a woman and her two children in a train accident in the morning.
General Mamdouh (...)
Ten days after his testimony in court, Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has commented that he only said the truth.
“We were not ordered to shoot the demonstrators,” he said. “And we would never do so.”
Tantawi's (...)
Emad Ibrahim, a lawyer representing revolutionary martyrs in Beni Suef, dropped a bombshell on Tuesday during the fourth session of the case into the killing of demonstrators during the revolution, in which former Security Director Ahmed Shawqi and (...)
Secretarian clashes on Sunday left a Copt killed, four Muslims injured and six houses burned in Minya, Upper Egypt.
Eyewitnesses said fighting erupted between residents of the village of Hawarta, which has a Muslim majority, and Christians from (...)
The minister for local development has issued instructions to all governors to implement the decision to dissolve local councils, according to a ministry source.
According to the instructions, all local council premises are to be seized and put (...)
Police on Thursday dispersed hundreds of Muslims besieging the Mar Girgis church in Bani Ahmed village, Minya.
They were protesting a decision by Minya Bishop Makarius to reinstate Father Georgy, the church priest, who had previously been removed on (...)
The Minya Criminal Court in Upper Egypt on Tuesday decided to postpone to 13 September the trial of several senior Interior Ministry officials charged with killing peaceful demonstrators during the 25 January revolution.
Former Beni Suef Security (...)
Security forces on 8 June discovered five statuettes and eight ancient coins at a farmer's house in the village of Nazlet Shadi.
The discovery came during a wide scale police campaign led by Mamdouh Meqled, head of Minya's security department, to (...)
Thousands of Christians and Muslims started celebrating the Virgin Mary festival in Minya on Thursday under the slogan “Minya without Sectarianism.” Those celebrating expect the number of participants to exceed 2 million.
Security forces have (...)
A source at a church in Egypt's Minya governorate has reported that the husband of Kamilia Shehata, whose own disappearance sparked protests over speculation she had been detained by the church for converting to Islam, has disappeared.
The source in (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood does not intend to field a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, the group's top leader said.
At a conference held in Minya, Upper Egypt, Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie reiterated that the Brotherhood -- Egypt's (...)
Upper Egypt's military prosecution ordered on Tuesday the detention of 18 people for 15 days pending investigations into sectarian clashes in Minya on Monday that killed two and injured four others.
The detainees are facing charges of murder, (...)
Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, while in Minya on Saturday, announced Muslim Brotherhood offices will be opened for National Association for Change (NAC) activities.
ElBaradei also called on Wafd Party leaders to join the reform movement.
The (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt, have today filed a lawsuit calling for the cancellation of the parliamentary elections in five constituencies in which five MB candidates were competing.
The Brotherhood is asking for (...)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement has accused supporters of a parliamentary candidate for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) of trying to kill the leader of the MB's parliamentary bloc, Mohamed Saad al-Katatni.
In a press (...)
Egyptian courts will have a busy day Tuesday, with verdicts being handed down in four legal cases that have been closely followed by the local media and public.
Initial court hearings into the case of Mohsen Shaalan, deputy minister of culture and (...)
The ordination of Coptic priests should be contingent upon the consent of their spouses, Coptic Pope Shenouda III has said in his weekly sermon.
“Wives should also be tested on whether they fully understand the nature of a priest's vocation,” the (...)
A disagreement has erupted between the governor of Minya and stockholders of the el-Fateh for Land Reclamation association, after the governor ordered that trees grown by el-Fateh on state-owned land be removed.
The association allegedly encroached (...)
Minya--Anba Agathon, bishop of Maghagha, has delayed until Saturday a protest scheduled to take place today in front of Abbaseyya Cathedral, Cairo. The protest will go ahead if no final solution is reached concerning the construction of a new (...)
Minya--The crisis between Minya Governorate and the church of Maghagha escalated yesterday as hundreds of Copts demonstrated, objecting to Governor Ahmed Diaa Eddin's decision to halt construction of the city's new cathedral.
Anba Aghathon, the (...)
The archbishop of Maghagha, Minya, Anba Agathon, has pleaded for President Hosni Mubarak to intervene in removing restrictions blocking the building of the city's new cathedral.
Orders to halt the construction of the church were given by Ahmed Diaa (...)
Hundreds of Coptic Christians from the Minya Governorate demonstrated on Thursday at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbisiya to demand that authorities intensify investigations into the unexplained disappearance of Camelia Shahata Zakher.
Zakher, (...)
Minya--The bishop of Minya's Dayr Mawas monastery managed to end a sit-in by Coptic activists in front of a local church to protest the disappearance of the wife of pastor Tedaous Samaan, who believes she was kidnapped.
Bishop Aghapious urged (...)
Tens of lawyers gathered Wednesday in front of the headquarters of the General Tax Authority in the city of Beni Mazar in the Minya Governorate to protest the beating of a lawyer by tax collectors, who were attempting to collect money from his (...)