The April 6 Youth Movement members in Minya has received an assassination threat through an anonymous email message saying the group was "playing with fire."
The sender warned the activists against continuing their campaign to reveal the names of (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
More than two thousand Copts Saturday evening organized a protest outside the Holy Diocese of Mallawi in the Upper Egyptian Minya Governorate to denounce the fatal bombing outside St. Mark and St. Peter Church in Alexandria minutes after midnight on (...)
Three people died and 11 were injured after the microbus they were traveling in flipped over while en route from Cairo to their hometown in the Sohag Governorate.
The microbus, bearing license plate number 25910 Sohag, flipped over on the west (...)
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has handed over the remains of three Coptic saints to the Abu Hanas Coptic church in Minya.
The saints are said to have died in the fourth century at the hands of Roman persecutors.
The three bodies were (...)
Villagers in the vicinity of Mallawy city of southern Minya governorate have accused the local council of dumping around 250,000 tons of garbage on the Nile Bank.
The local council, however, claimed it dumped the garbage to fill up a marsh even (...)
Minya--Thousands of residents of the village of Deir Mawas attended the funeral on Thursday of 44-year-old Fadl Abdallah, who family members say was beaten to death by police at the local police station.
The funeral was held amid heavy (...)
Dozens of residents from the villages of Barsha, Deir el-Barsha and Abu Hens in Minya protested on Tuesday, demanding that branches of the Nile Bridge be built to run through their villages. The Nile Bridge links the eastern and western desert (...)
The ongoing shortage of butane gas cylinders in the provinces resulted in more protests and clashes Tuesday, amid soaring local butane prices. The price of one gas cylinder in the Delta city of Daqahlia, for example, reached LE12--a full three times (...)
The healthy drainage project opened by president Mubarak yesterday in Minya has not yet been finished, according to citizens and members of municipal councils. Officials were accused of failing to pay enough attention to areas located just a few (...)
Some 200 Muslim youth of Bodroman village in Menya staged protests on Wednesday against a local church renovating its steeple. They called the renovation "provocative."
Priest Andraus Abdullah said the church received permission from the security (...)