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Military police forcibly disperse Coptic sit-in
Egypt
October 5, 2011
Military police forcibly disperse Coptic sit-in
Military police on Wednesday morning forcibly evacuated hundreds of Coptic demonstrators from the area outside the state TV building in…
500 Copts protest in Beni Suef over Aswan church burning
Egypt
October 5, 2011
500 Copts protest in Beni Suef over Aswan church burning
About 500 young Copts gathered Tuesday in front of the Beni Suef Governorate headquarters to protest the burning of a…
Coptic group slams govt, military council over Christians’ rights
Egypt
October 4, 2011
Coptic group slams govt, military council over Christians’ rights
A group of Coptic activists on Tuesday accused the cabinet and the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)…
Copts in Aswan demand construction of church
Egypt
October 3, 2011
Copts in Aswan demand construction of church
About 1500 Coptic Egyptians staged demonstrations before the Aswan municipality headquarters in Upper Egypt on Monday to demand the construction…
Aswan attack part of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Copts, says lawyer
Egypt
October 2, 2011
Aswan attack part of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Copts, says lawyer
Naguib Gobrail, a lawyer and the head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations (EUOHR), has called for the…
Abouel Fotouh: I will choose Coptic vice president if I win
Egypt
October 2, 2011
Abouel Fotouh: I will choose Coptic vice president if I win
At a rally in Aswan on Saturday, presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh said he would appoint a Copt as…
Thousands of Copts protest Aswan church attack
Egypt
October 1, 2011
Thousands of Copts protest Aswan church attack
Thousands of Copts staged a demonstration Saturday to condemn the attack on a church in Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt,…
Muslims burn part of Aswan Governorate church
Egypt
September 30, 2011
Muslims burn part of Aswan Governorate church
A group of Muslims burnt part of a church in a village in Aswan Governorate, 800km south of Cairo, eyewitnesses…
Pope Shenouda: Modern-day Jews not ‘God’s chosen people’
Egypt
September 29, 2011
Pope Shenouda: Modern-day Jews not ‘God’s chosen people’
Modern-day Jews are not God's chosen people, said Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, in a…
Pope Shenouda rejects foreign intervention in Egyptian affairs
Egypt
September 26, 2011
Pope Shenouda rejects foreign intervention in Egyptian affairs
Pope Shenouda III on Monday reiterated his rejection of foreign interference in Egyptian affairs, particularly with regard religious freedoms and…