Worldpress.org
3 July 2009
 

 
Last week, the daily newspaper al-Shorouk reported that important figures in Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (N.D.P.) are meeting to decide the name of the party's 2011 presidential candidate.

ASSIST News Service
3 July 2009

The terrible consequence of forced ’reconciliation’ in the absence of truth or justice

AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- Since early 2007 the Egyptian government has been appeasing Muslim fundamentalists by settling matters of sectarian conflict out of court in line with Islamic Sharia law. That prohibits Christians from bringing evidence against Muslims.

Baptist Press
2 July 2009



WASHINGTON (BP)--An Egyptian court has granted custody of Coptic Christian twins to their mother but also ruled that the twins must be considered Muslim on their identification cards.

2 July 2009

But twins will keep father’s Muslim identity in their records, creating future problems.

 
                              Andrew and Mario

LOS ANGELES, (Compass Direct News) – A Christian mother in Egypt has won custody of her twin sons from her estranged husband, who had converted to Islam and claimed them according to Islamic legal precepts.

The New York Times
2 July 2009



NEW YORK — I am a Muslim, I am a feminist and I detest the full-body veil, known as a niqab or burqa. It erases women from society and has nothing to do with Islam but everything to do with the hatred for women at the heart of the extremist ideology that preaches it.

London Daily Mail
2 July 2009

CoE school bans girl from wearing crucifix - but allows Sikh pupils to wear bangles


Lauren Grimshaw-Brown (right),
with mum, Laina, dad, Gary and
brother Callan, holds up the
necklace she was told to take off

A school told a child to remove a Christian cross she was wearing even though it lets Sikh children wear bangles as part of their religion.

1 July 2009



(AINA) -- Another incident of a Muslim mob attacking, torching and looting Coptic Christian homes and shops took place today in the village of Meet El-Korashy, Meet Ghamr, after a Muslim young man died following a fight with a Coptic shopkeeper.

AINA
1 July 2009


(AINA) -- The persecution and discrimination against the Christian Copts in Egypt takes many forms; the most obvious manifestation is limiting their freedom to practice their religious rites, sometimes through violent means.