Tag: Egypt

Egypt and Syria: Two Civilizational Struggles

OCP- February 13, 2012

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

OCP- February 12, 2012

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

OCP- February 4, 2012

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

OCP- February 2, 2012

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)

OCP- February 1, 2012

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

OCP- January 30, 2012

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

OCP- January 28, 2012

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

OCP- January 26, 2012

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

OCP- January 26, 2012

© 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

OCP- January 23, 2012

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

OCP- January 21, 2012

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

OCP- January 21, 2012

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

OCP- January 13, 2012

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’

OCP- January 12, 2012

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

OCP- January 10, 2012

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

OCP- January 9, 2012

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

OCP- January 6, 2012

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

OCP- January 5, 2012

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

OCP- January 3, 2012

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

OCP- December 31, 2011

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

OCP- December 31, 2011

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