National Post
29 June 2010

Pope Shenouda III (C), the 117th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox of
Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark, stands with
Coptic archbishops.

A new grassroots movement among the Coptic Diaspora was established in Washington this past weekend. Almost 100 Coptic Christian community organizers from around the globe gathered to discuss religious freedom in the Middle East and future lobbying efforts for the rights of Egypt’s Coptic people.

One of the most explosive issues in the relations between Christians and Muslims of Egypt is the abduction of Christian Coptic minor girls,  to force them to embraced  Islam, after humiliating and demeaning them psychologically and morally.

Several hundred people joined One Law for All on 20 June at Downing Street to show their opposition to Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and to demand universal rights and secularism. A new report “Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights” was published on the day to coincide with the rally.

Asia News
25 June 2010

Lebanon is and was (even during the civil war) a model of life together because of its schools and universities. Card Tauran notes a movement back to religion in secularised societies. Card Scola says fundamentalism can be defeated by educating in truth and freedom.

DW-WORLD-DE
25 June 2010

Bielefeldt stands up for the rights
individuals

German human-rights expert Heiner Bielefeldt has been named the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief. He starts the job in August.

24 June 2010 

Rev Michael Youssef from Atlanta broadcasts Arabic Christian TV programs to the Arab World on two transponders, namely Hotbird and Nilesat. The channel is called Al Malakoot (the Kingdom) in Arabic.  More information on where this channel and many other Arabic Christians channels can be viewed, can be found HERE

22 June 2010

Tampa Police have arrested an Imam of a Tampa mosque who they say sexually battered a 13-year-old boy inside the mosque.

The New York Times
21 June 2010

Egypt's Outpost of Tolerance

Like the city around it, the Cap d’Or’s better days are behind it. The bar was
opened about 110 years ago by Greek residents.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — These two women were veiled, true. They are religious, too, or at least as religious as their community expects them to be. But do not tell them they cannot stop into Sheik Ali’s bar and sit at a table and eat fried calamari and laugh over a glass of juice while surrounded by men drinking beer and whiskey.