At 03.00 am on Sunday 14th December the Egyptian State Security officers at "El Pharana", Alexandria, in a barbaric-style operation arrested:
1. Mr. George Masoud Masoud Fam, (55 years old), a lawyer from Alexandria who works at the social services office of the Alexandria Coptic Episcopate, as well as the Clerical Council in Alexandria.
Coptic Christian Fights Deportation to Egypt, Fearing Torture
By NEELA BANERJEE
An Egyptian Coptic Christian who was permitted to stay in the United States because of the probable threat of torture back home is now fighting deportation on a murder charge in Egypt.
CSW calls for official investigation into Cairo church riot
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is calling for an official investigation into a recent attack on a Coptic church building in the East Cairo district of Ain Shams that later flared into mass rioting on the streets.
The Coptic Church of St Mary and Anba Abraam was attacked on Sunday by a mob of thousands, who began by protesting outside the church’s newly constructed extension building.
This delightful story just came in thanks to getreligion.org: The Saudis have recently asked permission to build a mosque in Moscow, a city where there are only four mosques and 2 million Muslims. The Russians, however, are saying they want, in return, an Orthodox church in Saudi Arabia.
Though they identify themselves as Christians, the Egyptian court is having a hard time letting them be. After all, "unknown to them, their religious identity officially changed 46 years ago due to their father’s brief conversion to Islam." Welcome to the wonderful world of sharia law, where lifelong Christians wake up one day to hear: "Surprise, you're Muslim!"
Egyptian Christian in Muslim ID Case Wins Right to Appeal
Arrest warrant rescinded for woman imprisoned because her father briefly converted to Islam.
By Roger Elliott
ISTANBUL, December 2 (Compass Direct News) – A Supreme Court judge in Egypt on Nov. 22 granted Christian Bahia El-Sisi the right to appeal her conviction for falsification of documents – a charge stemming from her official papers not identifying her as a Muslim.
Minneapolis:Somalis' "holy trip" of Haj ends at airport
Imam, mosque official barred from flight to Saudi Arabia
By JAMES WALSH and PAM LOUWAGIE, Star Tribune
Two men from a local mosque were kept off a flight Saturday, and their lawyer blames "unfair suspicions."
An imam and a youth coordinator at a Minneapolis mosque were prohibited from boarding a flight Saturday morning to Saudi Arabia as part of a spiritual pilgrimage, an attorney for the mosque confirmed Sunday.
LONDON - Over 5,000 butchers from Pakistan would get employment in the halal meat industry of UK through Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between National Halal Foods Group (NHFG) of UK and Overseas Employment Cooperation of Pakistan.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) should cut off outreach efforts with organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist extremist groups, a report from a ranking Senate subcommittee member recommends.
"Justice Denied: Waste & Mismanagement at the Department of Justice," is an 86-page report issued in October by the office of U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
Egypt: Two Coptic boys, forced to live with father convert-to-Islam, vow hunger strike to the death if not allowed to return to mother
Jihad Watch
I was reading the October edition of the Arabic newspaper, Sawt al-Muhajir ("Voice of the Immigrant" Y9N62) which regularly reports the abuses non-Muslims, mostly Christians, suffer living in the Islamic world. I found an update to a story we had originally posted here. According to that report, an Egyptian Christian intentionally converted to Islam simply so he could divorce his wife and remarry another, presumably Muslim, woman.
Countries attending a U.N. interfaith conference Thursday rejected the use of religion to justify acts of terrorism and other violence that kills and injures innocent civilians.
Secret enclaves of al-Qaeda extremists based in London, Birmingham and Luton are planning mass-casualty attacks in Britain, according to a leaked Government intelligence report.
By Sean Rayment, Security Correspondent
News footage of the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport Photo: PA
The document, which was drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence, MI5 and Special Branch, states that "some thousands" of extremists are active in the UK. They are predominantly UK-born and aged between 18 and 30, and many are believed to have been trained in overseas terrorist camps.
UK militants back Jihad according to leaked report
Thousands of Islamist militants in the UK are actively supporting jihadist activities at home and abroad, according to a leaked Government document.
The secret report states that Britain will remain "a high-priority target" for international terrorists aligned with al Qaida for the foreseeable future.
And it warns that a network of extremist cells exists in the UK, with the main concentrations in London, Birmingham and Luton.
New clashes erupt between Coptic Christians and Muslims
Cairo, (AKI) – Minority Coptic Christians have clashed with Muslims in southern Egypt, according to Christian MP Ibrahim Zanuni quoted by pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat. The violence erupted at a Muslim funeral on Tuesday in the Coptic majority village of al-Tayba in al-Maniya province after Muslims accused Copts of throwing stones at mourners praying at a funeral, Zanuni said.
Religious leaders to discuss right of Christians to build churches in Muslim countries
The right of Christians to build churches in Islamic countries will be among the topics discussed at a ground-breaking summit between Muslim and Catholic leaders in the Vatican this week.
Telegraph
By Nick Squires in Rome
The unprecedented Catholic-Muslim forum has been convened to rebuild bridges between the two faiths after Pope Benedict XVI caused outrage by linking Islam with violence during a speech in 2006.
Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah case at the State Council Court today adjourned.
In a telephone call to Mr. Nabil Gobrial the Cairo lawyer and Mr. Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary’s lawyer today, it was disclosed that court hearing took place at the State Council Court “Maglis Al-Dawla”, Doqi, Cairo today.
