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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
The new Egyptian government sworn in Thursday is a vivid testament to the political pressures President Mohammed Morsi faces in appeasing secularists and Islamists as he moves to fix a plummeting economy while attempting to loosen the military's hold...
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The Herald
| 10 months ago
The crowd threw firebombs at the hotel, smashed its lobby and set fire to 10 cars, a security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk the press. Security forces fired tear gas on the crowd and opened...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
At least 16 people, including 10 police officers, have been injured in clashes between Muslims and Christians in a village near Cairo. Some 120 Christian families in Dahshour were evicted after the sectarian violence, which was sparked by the death...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
At least 16 people have died after Muslims attacked a church and Christian homes in a village near the Egyptian capital, Cairo, security officials say. The unrest in Dahshur, about 40km (25 miles) south of Cairo, started after a Muslim man died of...
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Daily Nation
| 10 months ago
Rating Angry Muslims attacked a church and Christian homes outside Cairo on Wednesday, sparking clashes that wounded 16 people, a security official said, after a Muslim died of wounds from a fight with a Christian. Police fired tear gas to prevent...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
The violence in Dahshour, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Cairo, is the first case of sectarian clashes in the weeks since Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood took over as president. The election of an Islamist heightened fears among...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Over and over again she explained that the world should know about what was happening to Christians like her inside Syria. But she would not appear on camera or even allow her voice to be recorded. "My husband does not want to draw trouble on us by...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
How can Morsi commit to keeping his country's treaty with Israel when his religious beliefs preclude it? Mohamed Morsi's recent election as president of Egypt has proved to be a matter of concern. A candidate from the radical Islamist Muslim...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
An Egyptian security official says a 25 year-old Muslim man wounded in sectarian clashes with Christian villagers has died.
The clashes broke out Friday south of Cairo when villagers hurled fire bombs at each other in a quarrel that...
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Russia Today
| 10 months ago
Bahraini authorities have arrested Nabeel Rajab, rights activist and foremost critic of the Al Khalifa regime, as they continue their brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters. It comes after he was interviewed on Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow...
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AKI
| 10 months ago
A minority Coptic Christian teacher is under arrest for posting cartoons on Facebook that allegedly insulted Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and Islamist president Mohammed Mursi, state-run al-Ahram reported on Tuesday. Bishoy Kamel, a Coptic-Christian...
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Africa Headlines
| 10 months ago
As the constituent assembly writes Egypt's new constitution, a leader from the Salafi (ultraconservative) Nour Party insists that there is no need to include an article to grant non-Muslims the right to resort to their own religious rituals in their...
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Pak Tribune
| 10 months ago
The United States on Monday took aim at Pakistan for using blasphemy law to "restrict religious liberty". In its first report on religious freedoms since the start of the Arab spring uprisings, the US State Department warned, "In times of transition,...
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Scoop
| 10 months ago
Well, thank you very much, and it's indeed a pleasure to join you here today to talk about an issue that shapes the lives of people worldwide as much as any other, religious freedom. And I want to thank Jessica Matthews not just for that introduction,...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
From pork rinds sprinkled on Muslim graves in France to a Christian pastor's death sentence for apostasy in Iran, religious minorities were targeted across the globe in 2011, according to a U.S. government report on the state of religious freedom...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 10 months ago
She said the Obama administration's future relationship with President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood would depend on how they respect the rights of Coptic Christians, women and other minorities. Speaking to the Carnegie Endowment for...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Egyptian people and the international community are looking to the new Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi to appoint an inclusive government the includes women and Christians. Clinton spoke following the...
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Salem News
| 10 months ago
Each time an item like this is released I read it with optimism. As a Human Rights reporter, I can't recall a single time I was not dismayed, even horrified by what I see. It is one thing for a government to have alliances, but to have it blatantly...
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
U.S. slams Europe for anti-Muslim laws, hits Egypt over treatment of Christians U.S. slams Europe for anti-Muslim laws, hits Egypt over treatment of Christians From pork rinds sprinkled on Muslim graves in France to a Christian pastor's death...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
The adjournment of a battle that has overshadowed one of the main components of Egypt's transition to democracy after the Arab Spring uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak could give the current constitutional assembly time to complete its work. That...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
The United States on Monday accused Egypt, China and European nations of harming religious freedom, citing a rising tide of anti-Semitism, laws banning Muslim veils and attacks on Coptic Christians. "In times of transition, the situation of religious...
