President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama Removes his Shoes While Visiting the Sultan Ahmed Mosque

CFI Urges President Obama to Remember Persecuted Christians in Egypt

Christian Freedom International

 SAULT STE. MARIE, MI -- President Obama has chosen Egypt to deliver a major address to the Muslim world. Obama said after his election in November that he planned to make such a speech to show Muslims that the United States was extending its hand in friendship after years of tension.

Britons Held At Gunpoint In Egypt Over Flu

A British family have told of their holiday hell after being held in quarantine by armed guards amid swine flu panic in Egypt.   

Stewart Harbut, his pregnant wife Sasha and their four young children claim they were "pinned down" at Sharm el Sheikh International Hospital while doctors forced them to give swabs.

A bomb explodes near Cairo church

A small bomb exploded near a revered church in the Egyptian capital but caused no casualties or damage, police officials said Monday.

The officials said late Sunday night's explosion was caused by primitive bomb planted under a parked car near Saint Mary Church in Cairo's Zeitoun district. The church is one of the holiest sites for Egypt's Coptic Christian minority because an apparition of the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared there in 1968.

BBC appoints Muslim to top religious post in controversial first


Aaqil Ahmed has been appointed the Head of Religion and Ethics

 

The BBC yesterday appointed a Muslim as its head of religious programming in a radical departure from broadcasting tradition. Aaqil Ahmed has been appointed the Head of Religion and Ethics

The post - considered one of the most influential religious roles in the country - has gone to Aaqil Ahmed, who has been working as an executive at Channel 4.

Bomb explodes in Cairo

Reuters

A small homemade bomb exploded near a church in the Egyptian capital on Monday but no one was hurt, security sources said.

The device damaged a car and a second one was found and detonated by police in the same area near a Coptic church in the northeast of Cairo, the sources added.

Queen's Trinity Cross medal scrapped... because it's 'too Christian'

medal personally established by the Queen is being withdrawn after it was deemed offensive to Muslims and Hindus.

The honour - known as The Trinity Cross of the Order of Trinity - has been ruled unlawful and too Christian.

It has been awarded to 62 distinguished residents of the former colony of Trinidad and Tobago over more than 40 years, including cricketers Brian Lara and Garfield Sobers, novelist V.S. Naipaul and many diplomats and politicians.

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Caribbean storm: The old Trinity Cross (left) is replaced with the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, which has removed any Christian symbols

 

Egypt’s Swine Destruction Threatens Coptic-Run Industry

Government vows to continue slaughter in spite of international criticism.

By Roger Elliott

CAIRO, Egypt, May 5 (Compass Direct News) – Authorities yesterday pressed ahead with the slaughter of Egypt’s pigs – crippling the livelihood of thousands of swine breeders, nearly all Coptic Christians – in spite of World Health Organization (WHO) criticism that the measure was unnecessary for fighting the A(H1-N1) flu strain.

Right to Convert Spotlighted Again in Egypt

The Media Line

Written by Joseph Mayton

Cairo, Egypt] Conversion is always a contentious issue in Egypt. Twenty-one-year-old Samar Mohamed’s conversion to Coptic Christianity in order to marry Tharwat Riad has left her on the run from police and her family.

The case has once again sparked tensions between the minority Coptic population and Muslims across the country.

The case has once again sparked tensions between the minority Coptic population and Muslims across the country.

Egypt pig farmers clash with police over cull

CAIRO (AFP)

Egyptian riot police clashed on Sunday with stone-throwing pig farmers trying to prevent their animals from being taken away for slaughter as part of a nationwide cull.

Between 300 and 400 residents of the hilly Moqattam slum district of Cairo, where mostly Coptic Christian scrap merchants raise pigs, hurled stones and bottles at police.

Malaysia: Islamic groups none too pleased about ban on "automatic" conversions of children when one parent converts to Islam

Conversion ban slammed

By Elizabeth Looi, Malaysia Correspondent

The Muslim groups say the decision betrayed the religion and infringed on the powers of the Islamic court and the Malay sultans, who have final say on issues involving Islam

Is it Cull or targeting Christians for poverty? 

Egypt presses ahead with pig cull

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Deputy director for veterinary affairs for Cairo, Dr Souad Al-Khouli: 'We haven't had any positive samples'

Deputy director for veterinary affairs for Cairo, Dr Souad Al-Khouli: 'We haven't had any positive samples'

Egyptian authorities have begun in earnest the slaughter of 300,000 pigs, in what was originally described as a precaution against swine flu.

Islamic Scholars Wrestle With Death-For-Apostasy Issue

By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor

(CNSNews.com) – An international Islamic body has appointed a committee of six religious scholars to study one of the most contentious issues in Islam today – whether “apostates” should face the death penalty.

Egyptian Christians riot after swine flu cull

Times Online

Egyptian farmers block the street to prevent vehicles of the Egyptian Health Ministry workers who came to slaughter the Swine

(Nasser Nouri/AP)

Egyptian farmers block the streets to prevent health ministry vehicles getting past to carry out the mass-slaughter of swine

UN agency slams Egypt order to cull all pigs

Reuters

By Phil Stewart

ROME, April 29 (Reuters) - Egypt's order on Wednesday to cull all the country's pigs is "a real mistake" and another reason why the world needs to rethink using "swine flu" to describe a virus affecting humans, a U.N. agency official said.

Coptic Christian Priest Unjustly Tried And Imprisoned In Egypt

Father Mattaos Wahba 
Father Mattaos Wahba
(RSD) -- Not all the facts were taken into account in a case last year where a Coptic priest was tried and sentenced to an Egyptian prison for his involvement in the falsification of an ID card indicating a young woman was Christian, rather than Muslim.

Egypt Ex-Muslim And Husband In Hiding; Violence Kills Two

By Worthy News Middle East Service

CAIRO, EGYPT (
Worthy News) -- An ex-Muslim who converted to Christianity and her Christian husband were in hiding Tuesday, April 28, amid threats from family members and police, the latest in a series of attacks against Coptic Christians this month, in which at least two people were killed, several sources said.

Christian Teacher Suspended after Complaining that a Staff Training Day was used to ‘Promote’ Homosexual Rights

 

A CHRISTIAN teacher has been suspended from a senior post for complaining that a staff training day was used to promote homosexual rights.

 

Convert in Egypt Arrested for Marrying Christian

Couple goes into hiding as police place Islamic law over Egyptian penal code.

By Michael Larson

ISTANBUL, April 23 (Compass Direct News) – Christian convert Raheal Henen Mussa and her Coptic husband are hiding from police and her Muslim family for violating an article of Islamic law (sharia) that doesn’t exist in the Egyptian penal code. 

Netherlands: US Islam-critic cancel trip due to death threats

Islam in Europe

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Netherlands: US Islam-critic cancel trip due to death threats

Mark A. Gabriel, ex-Muslim and Islam-critic has gotten death threats and must cancel speaking appointments in the Netherlands.

Two Copts Gunned Down in Egypt after Easter Vigil

QENA, Egypt (AFP) – Muslim gunmen shot dead two Coptic Christians as they left church after an Easter vigil in southern Egypt, in an apparent five-year-old vendetta, a security official said on Sunday.


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