Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced 7 Copts to death in absentia for insulting Islam and harm Egyptian national unity.
Dr. Mohamed El-Baradei, member of National Salvation Front, said in a press conference today that the front refuses the void dialogue with the presidency.
Hafez Salama, Popular resistance leader in Suez, said that president Morsy has declared the state of emergency, while police have lost control in Suez.
Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, former candidate for the presidency and dissident Muslim Brotherhood leader, said that remnants of the former regime, imperialism, and many regional powers are responsible for such nationwide chaos and violence in Egypt.
Pastor Refaat Fathi, representative of the Evangelical Church in national dialogue committee, said that Egyptian churches have decided to withdraw from the national dialogue as Muslim Brotherhood as well as the presidency never keeps their words.
Eyewitness in Amshoul village, Assiut, said that the attacks have started after a group of young Muslims has attacked a Christian girl and harassed her sexually. She cried out loudly and Christians intervened
In his article today at al-Gomhoria official newspaper, Sheikh Ayman Saidah, Salafist preacher, called young people to marry more than one woman in order to please God and have abundance in life. He added that this is one of the reasons God grant people wealth.
Sources in the Church told Copts United that Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, will leave St. Bishoy monastery tomorrow heading to Alexandria, to celebrate the holy feast of Epiphany, before he returns to the papal residence in Cairo.
Ahly club supporters march tomorrow from the club to Tahrir Square demanding the rights of their martyrs of Port Said massacre, and to take revenge from their killers.
The International Amazigh Congress has invited Dr. Mariam Milad, head of Right party, to represent Egypt at their conference in Libya, as she is the first woman to head a party in Egypt and the Middle East.
Mohamed el-Sawy, who claimed to be the Church representative in Constitution's Constituent Committee, has apologized for his claim assuring that no one can claim so without having a permission from the Church, and this was only a matter of friendship and feeling responsible at the situation!
Campaign to raise awareness about the constitution said that illiteracy has dominated the voting process and greatly affected its results.
KIMI organization has condemned the violations that encountered the second phase of referendum on the constitution draft and invited all Egyptians not to recognize the results.
Maher Baybars, governor of Beni Suef, said that dialogue is the only way to reach a consensus view and to unite the majority of the Egyptian people.
Several non-governmental organizations for human rights have warned against rigging the referendum on constitution draft, after the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) had announced that non-governmental organizations interested in monitoring the referendum have to get authorizations by the Council.
Misdemeanor Court has sentenced Albert Saber , Coptic activist, to 3 years for insulting Islam and promoting extremist ideas and atheism through his Facebook page.
Tarek Nabarawy, coordinator of independence current in Engineers' Syndicate, has denounced the decision of the public prosecutor to transfer the Attorney General for East Cairo to Beni Suef as a punishment for violating the policy of Muslim Brotherhood and ignoring their threats.
Dr. Rev. Safwat Al-Bayaadi, head of the Evangelical community, told Copts United that the Evangelical Church hasn’t accepted the new Constitutional Declaration or invited the Christians to participate in the referendum on the draft of the constitution.
Dr. Emad Gad, vice-president of Democratic Egyptian Party, considered the new constitutional declaration issued last Saturday an extension to the policy of twisting and deception of MB.
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