A Minya military court sentenced on Thursday four pro-Morsi supporters to seven years in jail each for storming a governmental agency headquarters in Minya governorate.
The defendants were found guilty on retrial of storming the youth and sports (...)
A Minya military court sentenced eight Mohamed Morsi supporters to seven-year prison sentences for storming and torching a local council building in Minya governorate in August 2013.
The court also sentenced another defendant in the same case to (...)
By Mostafa Fahmy, Shaimaa Elise and Marwa Mefreh
The Ministry of Investment has received a list of approximately 100 projects from Upper Egypt, to be debuted in the "Upper Egypt Development" Conference to be held in September in Hurghada.
Minister (...)
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Prefacing this article by saying that capital punishment is inhumane and repugnant is a must. In Egypt, though, (...)
The forced dispersal of protest camps in Rabaa and Nahda Squares on 14 August 2013 was followed by a wave of attacks targeting churches and Christian-owned property.
Hard-line Islamists with links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya (...)
Security forces on Wednesday seized 16 stolen artefacts in the possession of three Sudanese nationals and an Egyptian at the Delga checkpoint in Deir Mawas, Minya.
The seized items included 10 statues, four gold bullion and two snake-shaped (...)
A number of churches were attacked on Wednesday in governorates around the country following the forcible dispersal of sit-ins in Rabaa Al-Adaweya in Cairo and Al-Nahda Square in Giza.
Two churches in the Fayoum village of Al-Nazla were set on fire, (...)
Dr Mustafa Eissa, El Menia Governor, said the governorate is planning for supporting and developing the religious touristic attractions in El Menia, as it has several old monasteries; like Deir Mawas, in an attempt to reactivate the tourism in the (...)
Security forces have been deployed to the Upper Egyptian city of Deir Mawas in an effort to curtail sectarian tensions which continue to rise following clashes between Coptic and Muslim factions. The developments followed of clashes on Sunday which (...)
Deir Mawas—Security at Deir Mawas in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya-the epicenter of the Kamilia Shehata story- is well beyond tight.
Local security forces are on hand in full force as access to the neighborhood of the Deir Mawas and Gilda (...)
CAIRO - Looking back at 2010, we notice that riots between Egypt's Muslims and Christians erupted over and over again. There were a number of victims and many arrests on both sides.
However, contemplating on the issue, analysts present some (...)
CAIRO: The wives of two Egyptian Coptic priests, forbidden by the Church from divorcing their abusive husbands, desperately sought another way out by converting to Islam. When their intentions were discovered, police handed them over to the Church (...)
LONDON: Six months have passed since Camilia Shehata, the 26-year-old wife of a priest, raised as an Orthodox Christian in Egypt disappeared after converting to Islam.
She fled from her home on July 18, 2010 and was found five days later by (...)
A number of websites have posted a video clip of a woman claiming to be Camilla Shehata, the wife of the Deir Mawas Church priest Thaddeus Samaan who is said to have been forced to return to the church after fleeing her husband and converting to (...)
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 (...)
Wise officials in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, together with their flock, who appreciate the value of citizenship and have a great sense of belonging to the motherland, should swiftly act whenever baseless rumours concerning a Coptic female (...)
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 (...)
A 44-year-old farmer died inside a police station in Minya on Wednesday. The farmer's brother has accused police officers of beating him to death.
"Police arrested my brother while he was on his way home and took him to the station," said Saber (...)
CAIRO: In a new escalation by Copts Abroad, the American Coptic Assembly and the Free Copts Association, they have called on the Coptic community in Egypt not to vote for President Mubarak, or any candidate from the NDP as a result of what they (...)
CAIRO: A farmer from Ismo el-Aroos village in Deir Mawas in the Minya governorate some 250 miles south of Cairo was killed after two police officers broke into his house some time after midnight on Wednesday under the pretext of searching the home, (...)
The dispute over who owns the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti may end in December, reports Nevine El-Aref
Since being unearthed in the workshop of the sculptor Tuthmose at Tel Al-Amarna in 1912 by German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt, the magnificent (...)
Compensation for soldier
IN AN unprecedented move, Cairo's Court of Appeals last week ordered Israel to pay $10 million to the family of Amer Saad, an Egyptian soldier killed by Israeli tank fire on the Egypt-Israel border five years ago. The (...)
Will the supreme artefact of the Pharaonic era, the magnificent bust of Queen Nefertiti, ever be allowed to visit Egypt? Jill Kamil looks at the prospects of a homecoming
The serenely beautiful likeness of Queen Nefertiti -- whose name literally (...)
CAIRO: Egypt produces 40,000 tons of municipal waste each day with an estimated total of 15 million tons a year, according to the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA). Much of this is left in the streets or burned, creating unsanitary (...)
MINYA: Sixteen people, including six children, died Saturday when a microbus they were riding in fell off a rickety ferry and sank in the Nile River in southern Egypt, security and local officials said.
The accident happened because the bus (...)