Tag: Egypt
Egypt and Syria: Two Civilizational Struggles
13/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency The rapidly changing Middle East is witnessing convulsions which are indeed revolutionary when it comes to alliances. After all, in ... Read More
Egypt’s Copts willing to support MB-led coalition
12/2/2012 Cairo: The patriarch of Egypt's Coptic Church has expressed willingness to support a new government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, days after the largest ... Read More
State of Fear: Syria’s Christians Face the Specter of Civil War and Sectarian Violence
By Kurt J. Werthmuller 3/2/2012 Will the endangered Christian communities of the Middle East survive? Editor's Note: This is a part of a multi-part series ... Read More
Egypt’s Christians want political party
1/2/2012 Mohamed Abdel Salam CAIRO: A number of Coptic Christian activists said on Tuesday that they agreed on the need for the establishment of an ... Read More
U.S. Copts Decry Egyptian Persecution of Christians (VIDEO)
30/1/2012 Coptic Christians in Rhode Island told their Christian neighbors about the suffering their friends and relatives have endured in Egypt in the aftermath of ... Read More
3,000 attack Egyptian Christians over rumored cell phone picture
Timothy Whiteman 30/1/2012 The Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) is reporting that a riotous mob consisting of extremist Muslim Salafists and members of the Muslim ... Read More
Two Copts killed in southern Egypt
Agence France-Presse Cairo 27/1/2012 Unknown assailants shot dead two Coptic Christians in a village of southern Egypt prompting an angry protest by more than 1,500 ... Read More
Why Christians in Egypt Are Holding Their Breath, Part 2
By Kurt J. Werthmuller 26/1/2012 The long-term future of Christians in Egypt is fraught with peril. Paradoxically, the last century has been a period in ... Read More
No Longer an Ancient Curiosity
© RIA Novosti. Ruslan Krivobok 26/01/2012 Andrei Zolotov, Jr. The Thirteenth Apostle was in town earlier this week. The Judge of the Whole Universe. I ... Read More
Why Christians in Egypt Are Holding Their Breath, Part 1
By Kurt J. Werthmuller 23/12/2012 A guided tour through the Christian communities of the Middle East begins with a community founded in the Apostolic generation. ... Read More
Local Coptic Christians fear for persecuted Egyptians
By MICHELLE BEARDEN | The Tampa Tribune 21/1/2012 As soon as news broke in January 2011 of the uprising that eventually would topple Egyptian dictator ... Read More
Muslims in Egypt Burn Christian Homes and Shops, Attack Church
By Mary Abdelmassih AINA NEWS 20/1/2012 (AINA) -- A Muslim mob attacked Copts today in the Upper Egyptian village of Rahmaniya-Kebly, Nag Hammadi, Qena province, ... Read More
Egyptian churches embrace Al-Azhar basic freedoms document
Al-Masry Al-Youm Staff 12/01/2012 Egypt's three major churches and the Maspero Youth Union have come out in support of Al-Azhar's proposed basic freedoms document, which ... Read More
Political powers sign Azhar’s ‘bill of rights’
By Omnia Al Desoukie/Special to Daily News Egypt 11/1/2012 CAIRO: Representatives of political parties and politicians signed Wednesday Al-Azhar’s bill of rights during a meeting ... Read More
Copts thank Muslims for Christmas spirit
Ola Salem 9/1/2012 ABU DHABI // The head of Abu Dhabi's Coptic church has thanked Muslims who took part in its Christmas celebrations for their ... Read More
Egypt’s Christians celebrate Christmas Amid Fears
By Sarah El Deeb ASSOCIATED PRESS 8/1/2012 CAIRO - Egypt’s Christians yesterday celebrated their first Christmas after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, amid tight ... Read More
Security tight as Egypt Copts celebrate Christmas
6/1/2012 AFP A massive plan to protect Egyptian churches swung into action on Friday as Coptic Christians prepared to celebrate their first post-revolution Christmas, with ... Read More
Coptic group rejects Christmas greetings in protest of Maspero Massacre
Photographed by نمير جلال Archived Mohamed Mustafa 04/01/2012 Coptic activists have expressed concerns over the trial of three soldiers accused of killing 14 Copts during ... Read More
Egypt: Islam: One year after the massacre of Christians in Alexandria, Egypt seeks a way forward
1/1/2012 The persecution against Christians mingled with violence against the Arab revolution. In a year more than 1000 dead, thousands injured, 1200 have lost one ... Read More
Egyptian Muslims, Christians clash over prophet cartoon
31/12/2011 Sectarian clashes broke out in the southern Egyptian province of Assiut after a Christian student posted a drawing of the Muslim prophet on the ... Read More
Egypt’s military: On alert for New Year’s attack on Christians
31/12/2011 Update at 6:25 p.m. ET: Facebook has apparently taken down the account of at least one group threatening a New Year's attack on Egyptian ... Read More