Translated from the original article by Amr Bayoumi and Yousri El Badri, published in CoptReal on 9/2/2010 The civil affairs administration has decided that it will not issue ID cards to Coptic Orthodox priests or their children using their clerical names and has demanded that they return to the ...

 عمرو بيومي يسري البدري قررت مصلحة الأحوال المدنية الامتناع عن إصدار بطاقات شخصية للقساوسة الأرثوذكس أو أبنائهم بالاسم الكهنوتي، كما طالبتهم الوزارة بالعودة إلى أسمائهم المدنية المدونة في شهادات الميلاد. وتقدم العشرات من كهنة الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية بشكاوي إلى البابا شنودة الثالث، بابا الإسكندر...

DPA, 8/19/2010 An Islamic publishing house in Egypt has published what is says is a "forged" version of the Christian Bible, angering the local Coptic Church, independent daily al-Masry al-Youm reported Thursday. The owner of the Islamic Enlightenment Publishing House, Abuislam Abdullah,...

By Essam Fadl /Special to Daily News Egypt August 12, 2010 CAIRO: Dozens of Copts demonstrated inside Abbaseya’s St. Mark’s Cathedral on Wednesday against the disappearance of a Coptic woman and her three children. The demo coincided with Pope Shenouda’s weekly sermon. Prote...

8/14/2010  (AINA) -- On August 13 Sheikh Tobah, Imam of the village of Shimi 170 KM south of Giza, called during Muslim Friday prayers for Jihad against Christians living there. As a result the Christian Copts living in the village were assaulted over two consecutive days. Eleven Copts were hos...

 This is the sixth year in a row that I write, following the conclusion of the annual parliamentary round, to comment on the failure of the Parliament to pass the unified law for places of worship. The lack of such a law, as any casual observer can tell, has been behind countless incidents of v...

8/10/2010 - (AINA) -- A Christian Coptic human rights group is seeking to initiate an international arrest warrant in the United Kingdom against the leading Muslim fundamentalist cleric Sheikh Yousef al-Badri for inciting Muslims to kill apostates from Islam in Egypt. Al-Badri, who is a member of th...

Over a series of four editorials printed last October, I tackled the practices exercised by Minya local authorities against the Copts in the governorate. A file I had received from the bishopric of Maghagha and Adawa in Minya was packed full of details that could be described as collective punishmen...

FreeCopts - By Mary Abdelmassih - Wednesday, 28 July 2010 Bishop Agathon, 75 clergy and nearly 150,000 Copts from parishes all over the Diocese of Maghagha & Edwah have staged a sit-in in Maghagha since Sunday 25 July 2010, protesting against the intransigence of the Gove...

تحديث: أكثر من ألف قبطي مازالوا معتصمين بالكاتدرائية المرقسية بالقاهرة إحتجاجاً على التلاعب الأمنى وعدم تنفيذ وعودهم التى قطعوها على أنفسهم بعودة زوجة القس تداوس سمعان المختفية. الأمن ينسحب من محيط مطرانية دير مواس ودلجا . بدء لعبة التوازنات بترويج شائعات عن إختفاء فتاتين مسلمتين بدير مواس لمشاهدة ...

لليوم الثانى على التوالى يعتصم عشرات الأقباط والكهنة داخل الكاتدرائية الكبرى بالعباسية احتجاجا على اختفاء "كامليا شحاتة زاخر" زوجه القس "تادرس سمعان" راعى كنيسة "مارى جرجس " بدير مواس فى ظروف غامضة مساء الأحد الماضى، أثناء توجهها إلى منزل والدها. وقال القمص ويصا صبحى و...

فى تصريحات خاصة -للأقباط الأحرار- أفاد القس/ تداوس سمعان كاهن كنيسة الشهيد مارجرجس التابعة لإبراشية ديرمواس بمحافظة المنيا، أنه فوجىء بغياب السيدة حرمه (تاسونى كاميليا شحاتة زاخر – 25 سنة – مُدرسة علوم بمدرسة قرية بنى سالم التابعة لمركز دير مواس) منذ ليلة الأحد الماضى 18-7-2010، وكانت...

أقامت مطرانية ملوى مساء أمس، صلاة الحزن على زوجة كاهن ديرمواس المختفية من الأسبوع الماضى وسط تجمع قبطى كبير شارك فيه الكهنة، حيث انطلقت دعوات المصلين للتخفيف عن أسرة كامليا زوجة الكاهن المختفية. عقب الانتهاء من الصلاة تجمع بعض الشباب أمام المطرانية، إلا أن الأسقف منعهم، مطالباً بعدم تشكيل أى تجمعات...

MEF, 7/15/10 Uncovering the truth is always a convoluted affair when it comes to the Middle East. Consider the case of the Egyptian Nagla Imam. Is she a Muslim woman who advocates the sexual harassment of Jewish women, or a Christian woman, who advocates human rights — especially for fellow w...

Continental News, 7/18/10  “The defendant’s legal team had applied in April 2010, to change the previous court due to being prevented from meeting with their client, attending closed sessions or cross-examining witnesses,” she said. “The court session which lasted for n...

 7/23/10 (AINA) -- The unexplained disappearance of a Coptic priest's wife in Upper Egypt has led today a sit-in staged by thousands of Copts at the Coptic Patriarchate in Cairo, to protest what they consider "collusion by the state security services." There are rumors that Islam...

 تحقيق شريف رمزي المحامي مريم وسامرية.. فتاتين فى عُمرالزهور (13 و 15 سنة).. خرجن لقضاء احتياجات الأسرة، ولم يعودا.. الأم تصرخ والأب يطرق كل الأبواب طلباً للمُساعدة، ولا يوجد مُصغِ أو مُجيب، وكالعادة تلعب الأجهزة الأمنية دور الحاضر الغائب!!..أنظار الأسرة تتجه من بهتيم محل سكن الأسرة صوب قرية ا...

Translated from the original article by Hekmat Hanna for Copts United: Maher ElGohary asks, What am I to do when I am threatened with death in my own country? I am prohibited from leaving and I am not given an explanation. Christian convert Maher ElGohary, also known as Peter Athanasius, was the...

 "ماهر الجوهرى": • ماذا أفعل وأنا مهدد فى بلدى بالقتل؟ • محاولات سفرى للخارج ممنوعة، وغير معلنة الأسباب. كتبت: حكمت حنا - خاص الأقباط متحدون في محاولة اغتيال مُدبّرة تعرّض اليوم المتنصر "ماهر الجوهري" المعروف بـ"بيتر أثناسيوس" لمحاولة اغتيال استهدفت...

By Ingy Hassieb / Daily News Egypt June 22, 2010 CAIRO: During her appearance on the talk show “Manchet” with Gaber Al-Qarmouty, Islamic studies scholar, Souad Saleh stirred controversy after she said it is against the Islamic Sharia for a Christian to assume the presidential role i...

Translated from the original published by United Copts, Osama Eeed on 23 June 2010 for CAA by Ed Shafik. Suzan Adely: “Syid Kahalf from Samalot, Egypt, kidnapped, drugged, and raped me and when I became conscious I found myself in an Islamic Center…I demand my lawful damages fr...

 كتبها أسامة عيد - الأقباط الأحرار الأربعاء, 23 يونيو 2010 15:50 سوزان عدلى بنت عزبة فانوس بسمالوط للأقباط الأحرار: تعرضت للإختطاف على يد سيد خلف ، وأفقت من غيبوبتى لأجد نفسى بالجمعية الشرعية ... إنى أطالب بحقى القانونى منه بعد أن دمر سمعتى. والد الفتاة : إبنتى عادت ولكن التهديدات مازالت ...

 عقب الأزمة العنيفة بين الكنيسة والقضاء، بسبب حكم الزواج الثانى، قرر وزير العدل المستشار ممدوح مرعى تشكيل لجنة لإعداد قانون الأحوال الشخصية الموحد للطوائف المسيحية، وعقد أمس فى مكتبه أول اجتماع لهذه اللجنة استعدادا لإرسال مشروع القانون إلى مجلس الشعب لإقراره. وكنت وغيرى قد كتبنا مرارا وتكرارا ...

 International Christian Concern, 6/1/10 Washington, D.C. (June 1, 2010) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has been informed that a group of Muslims attacked the home of an Egyptian Coptic family over a minor unresolved dispute. On May 29, Nabil Shawky and another Christian were standin...

 ABC News, 6/6/2010 An Egyptian court has upheld a ruling to strip Egyptian men and their children of their citizenship if they marry Jewish women from Israel. It is estimated around 30,000 Egyptian men, many of whom moved to Israel in search of work, are married to Israeli women. The ruling...

CAIRO, Egypt, June 9 2010 (CDN) — Rasha Samir was sure her husband, Ephraim Shehata, was dead. He was covered with blood, had two bullets inside him and was lying facedown in the dust of a dirt road. Samir was lying on top of him doing her best to shelter him from the onslaught of approaching...

By Dina Abdel-Mageed / Special to Daily News Egypt May 20, 2010 CAIRO: The press conference held by the newly appointed minister of education, Ahmed Zaki Badr, and the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa last month to announce changes to the religious curricula in national schools has initiated a fresh round...

CAIRO, Egypt, May 25 2010 (CDN) — From the mosque across the street, words blasting from minaret megaphones reverberate throughout the tiny apartment where Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary is forced to hide. Immediately following afternoon prayers, the Friday sermon is, in par...

Some two months ago, MP Mustafa al-Fiqi made a declaration to the effect that the era of President Mubarak had seen no discrimination against Copts, with many of them reaching senior positions in various fields. Dr Fiqi categorically denied that Copts were deprived of holding specific positions. I r...

5/20/10 (AINA) -- The Christmas Eve Massacre trial held before the Emergency State Security Court in Qena on May 17 listened for the first time after eight court sessions to the testimony of witnesses. The Massacre took place on 6 January 2010, the Coptic Orthodox Christmas Eve, when Muslims carrie...

By Essam Fadl /Special to Daily News Egypt May 18, 2010, 5:10 pm CAIRO: The Emergency State Security Criminal Court in Qena on Tuesday adjourned to June 19 the trial of the Naga Hammadi drive-by shooting case, which left six Copts and a Muslim guard dead on Jan. 6. After hearing prosecution te...

 By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM, New York Sun | May 19, 2010 At 11:30 p.m. on January 6, the Orthodox Christmas for millions of Egyptian Christians, gunshots rang from a drive-by car, killing 7 parishioners exiting evening mass. The Nagaa Hamadi Church Massacre, as it became known, left 26 seriously inj...

 By MOHEB ZAKI - Wall Street Journal, 5/18/2010 Cairo - A few weeks ago in the coastal city of Marsa Matrouh, an enraged mob of some 3,000 angry Muslims gathered after Friday prayers. After the mosque's imam exhorted them to cleanse the city of its infidel Christians, called Copts, they w...

Translated by Ed Shafik for CAA from the original by Sheriff Doakley and Hany Samir, as published in CoptReal The Papal quarters still receives many complaints against a Director of a government hospital located in midtown Cairo. Over several months, this hospital Director kept refusing requests f...

MERIA Journal, 5/4/10 On January 6, 2010, at 11:30 p.m., gunshots were heard in Nag Hammadi, Egypt (a town situated 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, north of Luxor). The shooting was aimed at a group of Copts leaving church following the midnight Christmas Mass (which the Coptic Church celebrated on Jan...

5/5/10 - (Reuters) - Egyptian Christians have called for government action against the author of a widely read novel they say insults Christianity, in an unusual case that puts freedom of expression in Muslim-majority Egypt under fresh scrutiny. Government investigators are looking into the co...

خاص - الأقباط الأحرار تجمهر مايقرب من 900 شخص مسلم مساء امس الثلاثاء الموافق 27 ابريل 2010 وقاموا بالاعتداء علي مطرانية اخميم وساقلته من الساعه 11:45 مساءاً وحتي الساعه 1:30 من صباح الاربعاء الموافق 28 ابريل 2010 وقاموا بقذف المطرانية بالحجارة مما ادي الي تحطيم بعض النوافذ والصليب الذي يعلو البواب...

 شريف الدواخلي وهاني سمير مصر لا تزال تداعيات الشكاوي المتعددة التي وصلت للمقر البابوي ضد مدير أحد المستشفيات الحكومية بمنطقة «وسط المدينة» مستمرة والذي ظل يرفض علي مدار عدة أشهر اعتماد قرارات العلاج علي نفقة الدولة التي تخص الأقباط دون إبداء حجج منطقية. وقال مصدر بالمقر البابوي...

ASSIST News, 4/27/10 Two Egyptian twin boys have said, "We refuse to be Muslims by force," after losing a court case. Middle East journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, writing for the Assyrian International News Agency explained the background to this controversial case. "On March 30 [2010...

 “Sectarian violence throughout two years” is the title of an eminently significant and serious study published this month by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The EIPR is an Egyptian NGO that monitors the situation of freedoms—especially religious freedoms&m...

 مايكل فارس - خاث الأقباط متحدون امرت محكمة أم الدولة العليا قنا برئاسة المستشار محمود عبد السلام في جلستها اليوم لتاجيل النظر في قضية محاكمة الكموني واعوانة الذين قتلوا شهداء نجع حمادي لجلسة 16مايو القادم وقد بدأت جلسة اليوم الساعة الثانية عشر ونصف في اجواء مشحونة ومترقبة من قبل فريقي الدفا...

4/19/10, Maktoob News DUBAI - An Egyptian court postponed the high-profile trial of three Egyptian Muslims accused of gunning down six Coptic Christians and a police officer for a second time on Sunday, Daily News Egypt reported. The court adjourned the case until May 16 when it will hear the test...

 The Christian Post, 3/25/10 State security agents in the upper Egyptian city of Luxor destroyed an Anglican church and assaulted the church’s pastor when he tried to save the building last week. Pastor Mahrous Karam of the Anglican Church in Luxor reported that he was still negotiati...

Spero News, 3/22/10 On March 12, 2010, a group of some 2,000 Muslims, whipped up by a local Imam in Mersa Matruh, a Mediterranean port city in Egypt, attacked a group of some 400 Coptic Christians. The supposed reason for swarming the oft-persecuted Copts was a rumor that they were building a chur...

 March is a lovely time in the year, as we experience the transition from the cold of winter to the warmer feel of the spring. Many sports fans in the United States, including the writer, tend to watch basketball games. It is the time to for the popular NCAA college basketball tournaments, fond...

 صالح رمضان تجددت الاشتباكات بين المسلمين والمسيحيين بقرية كفر البربري مركز ميت غمر وذلك بعد قيام بعض المسيحيين بدعوة صحفيين وإعلاميين لتصوير منزلين كانت قد اشتعلت النيران فيهما العام الماضي بعد مقتل محمد رمضان عزت «17 سنة طالب- علي أيدي أسرة مسيحية بالقرية لكن تدخل الأجهزة الأمنية مب...

 فى متابعة مستمرة لتداعيات الاعتداءات التى تعرض لها أقباط منطقة الريفية بمطروح، صرح القس بيجيمى الانبا بولا فى حوار خاص -للأقباط الأحرار- أنه تم عقد 3 جلسات للصلح بين الاقباط والمسلمين برعاية جهات أمنية وحزبية بمرسى بمطروح عرض خلالها نيافة الأنبا باخوميوس بعض المطالب لقبول الصُلح ، تمثلت فى ال...

 استمراراً لمُسلسل الهدم والتخريب بحق مُمتلكات الأقباط ومُقدساتهم، أقدمت الأجهزة الأمنية بمُحافظة الأقصر صباح اليوم الخميس على اقتحام مُحيط الكنيسة الإنجيلية بمُعدات ثقيلة وعربات أمن مركزى، وقامت بهدم مبانى تابعة لها والاستيلاء على الأرض بذريعة إزالة المبانى العشوائية المُقامة على مسار طريق الك...

3/13/10 (Reuters) - At least 27 people were arrested in northern Egypt Friday after fighting erupted between Muslims and Christians over land, security sources said on Saturday. At least 24 people were hurt in the fighting in Marsa Matrouh governorate, including women and children, security sources...

ISTANBUL, March 17 2010 (CDN) — A mob of enraged Muslims attacked a Coptic Christian community in a coastal town in northern Egypt last weekend, wreaking havoc for hours and injuring 24 Copts before security forces contained them. The violence erupted on Friday (March 12) afternoon after the ...