Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian federation for human rights, has congratulated Dr. Mohammed Mursy for being the 5th president of Egypt, pointing out that Copts should cooperate with the elected president.
Facebook activists have shared a photo of a document proves that MB has rigged the results of the elections in favor of Dr. Mohammed Mursy, the presidential candidate of Freedom and Justice party.
A team of Spanish television has visited the headquarters of the electronic newspaper Copts United for an interview with the Editor-In-Chief Eng. Ezzat Boulos to find out about the reaction of Copts in case Muslim Brotherhood candidate wins the presidential elections.
Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, have issued a statement to condemn Alwatan newspaper and the journalist Mostafa Rahoma who has changed the term international follow-up to international supervision in Gebrael's lawsuit and claimed that church leaders refuse his lawsuit filed yesterday to find out the real numbers of Christians in Egypt which is not true.
However church doesn't support a presidential candidate, many Copts in Upper Egypt have received threats they would be killed if they vote for Ahemd Shafik.
Ezzat Poulos, an activist and CEO of Copts United news website, said that Copts won’t vote for one presidential candidate, but most of them will vote for a civilian candidate like Ahmed Shafiq, Amr Moussa and Hamdeen Sabahi.
Al-Kalema center for human rights has issued an announcement after 12 Christians were sentenced to life imprisonment while 8 Muslims were acquitted in spite of committing many crimes like holding weapons and explosives, attacking the others to kill them and demolishing their properties.
Dr. Naguib Geprael said that the investigations of Maspero with him, father Philopatier and father Matthias were closed as they found no proof for the accusations.
Many Christians in Alexandria signed a statement to ask Abba Pachomius, acting Patriarch to prevent nominating bishops with dioceses for the papacy as this is against the laws of the Church.
Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights has formed a team from the federation to contact authorities in Saudi Arabia and also meet with the Saudi ambassador in Cairo and human rights organizations to help solving the crisis of the Egyptian citizen Mohammed al-Gizawy who traveled to Saudi Arabia to perform minor hajj and was arrested for charges of abusing the king.
Central Committee of national awareness in Alexandria, which includes a number of secular members of the Church, has issued a statement saying that a number of mass media was noticed trying to spread rumors about the Copts to draw attention away from other group that have many problems concerning politics and credibility.
Hamdeen Sabahi, the presidential candidate told Al-Jazeera live channel that it is not for the good of Muslim Brotherhood to insist on having a presidential candidate.
Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights made an opinion poll for the Copts about which presidential candidate they are going to vote for in the coming presidential elections.
Khalid Ali, a likely candidate for presidential elections is taking a legal action against the head of the Supreme Committee for the presidential elections to investigate the huge advertisements in the streets of Cairo which carries the words “The President” to know who is behind such expensive ads. Ali added that all Egyptians should know who is behind such advertisements and if this exceeds the legal budget.
Bishop Pachmios, the acting pope has decided to allow only the visitors who got a stamped permission from the Patriarchate to visit St. Bishoy monastery where the shrine of his holiness Pope Shenouda III. This comes after 8 people had died yesterday because of the massive crowds at the shrine.
Dr. Naguib Gebrael, the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights said that the Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered today the arrest of the Islamic preacher Wagdi Ghoneim wherever he is and placed him on no travel list.
The supreme state security prospection has listened to Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights in the case against Sheik Wagdy Ghonaim.
Copts United knew that Christian representatives in the committee to draft the new constitution have withdrawn after the withdrawal of Al-Azhar representatives as well as the Islamic researches assembly members because of the controlling attitude of the Muslim Brotherhood group.
The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church issued a statement yesterday demanding the observance of human rights in the new Constitution of Egypt.
Dr. Michel Fahmy, writer and political thinker said in an interview at CTV, Coptic satellite channel that Pope Shenouda has unified Egypt during his life, and he unified it even more by his death. He added that the whole world mourned Pope Shenouda III.
In this video from the Norwegian documentary, Tarek Heggy, liberal thinker and political writer talks about political Islam and Muslim Brotherhood group. He talks about the attempts to Islamize Europe against the valuable system in Europe that made the human being the core and goal of it. Heggy talks about the danger that Muslims Brotherhood bringing to Europe as they don’t believe in human rights, equality, democracy and other values that built Europe. Heggy calls Europe to build systems to integrate the Muslims of Europe into the society and make them believe in its values. He also talks about political wave of Islam in many countries all over the world. And that MB preaches mainly a political agenda rather than a religious call.
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The Light of the Desert-Documentary on St Macarius Monastery, Egypt