لم اصدق عينى عندما لمحت خبرا على الفيسبوك يقول ان حركة التعيينات الجديدة للمحافظين ستشمل د. منال ميخائيل محافظا لدمياط. امرأة وقبطية لمنصب محافظ؟ كان هذا أكبر مما أتصور. وقد عبّرت عن شكوكى فى تعليق، فجاءنى الرد من احد القراء ليؤكد صدق الخبر ويضيف ان التعيينات شملت ايضا د. كمال شاروبيم محافظا للدقهلية. ومع ذلك فمن فرط دهشتى لم اعرف ما اذا كان الامر واقعا ام مجرد حلم. وكتبت اطلب من الاصدقاء عدم ايقاظى ان كان الامر حلما. والآن بعد مرور اكثر من يوم ولم يصدر ما يكذب الخبر اصدق اننا فعلا أمام حدث تاريخى غير مسبوق يعيد الامل فى غد مشرق لاقباط مصر ولمصر كلها.
Suspended for wearing a Cross - now victimised at work
NOTICE OF OPEN PRELIMINARY DAY HEARING
Employment Tribunal (Watford) on 26 October 2018
My claim centres on:
1.1. Victimisation: detriment for making protected acts contrary s.27 Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) (or any relevant antecedent legislation);
1.2. Whistleblowing: detriment for making protected disclosures contrary to s.47B Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996); and
1.3. Harassment: unwanted conduct relating to religion or belief contrary to s.27 EqA 2010
Remember me?
Background
In 2006 I was suspended from British Airways for wearing a cross which was and is no bigger than a five penny piece. I was supported by my MP, politicians and clergy of all faiths. My case gained media coverage nationally and globally. I was reinstated in my job in February 2007, in which I am still employed.
Having exhausted all legal avenues in the UK, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg determined in my favour (January 2013). It was specifically recognised that I had suffered anxiety, frustration and distress (para 114).
Suicide bomber who killed 22 in Manchester Arena was rescued by British navy in Libya
British bomber Salman Abedi had been visiting Libya during a year off before university.
Salman Abedi caught on CCTV travelling to the Manchester Arena.
Image: GMP
THE SUICIDE BOMBER who killed 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester was rescued by the British navy from conflict-ridden Libya three years earlier, it was reported today.
Salman Abedi, a British man of Libyan heritage, was among 110 Britons and their families evacuated by the ship HMS Enterprise and taken to Malta in August 2014, the Daily Mail newspaper said.
After seven years of closure of their old church by local authorities due to ‘security reasons’, the Coptic community in the Egyptian village of Kom el – Loufy celebrated the completion of the first phase of building their new church, the Church of Virgin Mary and Martyr Aban, by holding their first ever Mass on Sunday.
Previously, the priest of the Saint Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox Church near the village of Ezzbet Rafla welcomed the Copts in his church.
Following the closure of the old church, the Copts experienced serious discrimination as two young angry Muslims set fire to four Coptic homes in the village after rumors had spread that one of the houses would be turned into a church.
Egypt: Mob attack encouraged by police promise ‘No church will be allowed here’
A mob attacked a church in Minya, Egypt, on 13 July protesting against its legalisation and received a police officer’s approval, World Watch Monitor has learnt from local sources.
Several other villages in Minya have been attacked by mobs over the last few months, protesting against Coptic churches. (World Watch Monitor)
The only church in Ezbet Sultan Pasha village, where about 20 percent of the population is Christian, was built in September 2016. Apart from masses and prayer meetings, St. Karas the Anchorite Coptic Orthodox Church also held Sunday school classes and housed a nursery.
Christians attacked for allegedly comparing Jesus to Prophet Muhammad
Fri 13 Jul 2018
By Eno Adeogun
A Coptic Christian community in an Egyptian village has been attacked over an alleged Facebook post that compared the Prophet Muhammed to Jesus Christ.
Muslim villagers reportedly accused 35-year-old Abdo Adel of publishing a post on his Facebook page that was an insult to Islam.
A local source that wanted to remain anonymous told World Watch Monitor that Christians in Menbal - 225km south of Cairo - were afraid to leave their homes despite security forces patrolling the streets since the unrest began on Monday.
Egypt: Copts attacked after Facebook post ‘showing contempt of Islam’
July 11, 2018 By World Watch Monitor
An attack by a Muslim mob on Copts in a village in the Egyptian governorate of Minya on Monday (9 July) has left the Coptic community holed up in their houses, while security forces patrol the streets.
A local source told World Watch Monitor the situation is still very tense in the village of Menbal, 225km south of Cairo, which was also home to Gaber Mounir Adly, one of the 21 menbeheaded by Islamic State in Libya in 2015.
(الفتنة الطائفيه): ١٧ يونيو ١٩٨١(مذبحه الأقباط بالزاوية الحمراء - القاهرة)
مدحت قلادة
حتى لا تنسوا .... بعد ساعات تحل الذكرى 37 للبذرة الاولى للفتنة الطائفية فى مصر ،،،،،، 37 عام على مذبحة اقباط الزاويه الحمراء. عندما وقعت أحداث الزاوية الحمراء – نفذت أجهزة الشرطة تعليمات وزير الداخلية السيد النبوى إسماعيل بأن حاصرت الشرطة مسيحى الزاوية الحمراء وتركتهم (للارهابين ) ومجموعة من الصبية ثلاثة ايام تنتقل من حى إلى أخر يدمرون و يهتفون : إحرق وقاموا بأعمال السلب والنهب دون أى تدخل من الشرطة. حادثة هى الأولى من نوعها فى مصر فقد تحول شجار شخص فى مصر إلى معركة مسلحة – كانت هذه المجزرة فى الحقيقة هى بداية نهاية حكم الرئيس محمد أنور السادات الذى أتفق فى نهايته حكمه مع التيارات الدينية الذين انهوا حياته فى النهاية بالاغتيال يوم ٦ أكتوبر ١٩٨١م.
نكتب هذه الرسالة بدالة المحبة التى نكنها لكم واثقين من صدق مشاعركم تجاه كل المواطنين بغض النظر عن انتمائهم الدينى. ونخاطب فيكم روح الابوة، ليس فقط كأب داخل اسرتكم، ولكن كأب للمصريين جميعا. نكتب عن مأساة استهداف القبطيات اللاتى يقتطعن من اسرهن ويتم اسلمتهن بداية بالقاصرات ثم البالغات واحيانا يصل الأمر حتى للمتزوجات والامهات.
Austria plans to shut seven mosques and expel dozens of imams in what politicians have described as a crackdown on “political Islam”.
The country’s coalition government, formed of conservative and far-right figures, said the measures were “just the beginning” of a push against radical Islam and foreign funding of religious groups.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said authorities would shut what was described as a “hardline, Turkish nationalist mosque” in Viennaand also dissolve a group called the Arab Religious Community.
More than 350 mosques urge Tories to launch Islamophobia inquiry
United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
EGYPT 2017 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT
Executive Summary The constitution describes freedom of belief as “absolute” and specifies Islam as the state religion. It also enshrines the principles of sharia as the primary source of legislation, which local lawyers stated creates potential legal ambiguities with regard to the freedom of belief guaranteed in the constitution. The constitution only provides adherents of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism the right to practice their religion freely and to build houses of worship. The government continued not to recognize and restrict Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and Bahais. According to multiple sources, authorities continued to detain and physically mistreat former Muslims. Irrespective of religion, authorities also did not apply equal protection to all citizens and sometimes closed churches, in violation of the law, according to multiple sources. Courts charged citizens, including Muslim clerics, with “denigration of religions.” Christians reported discrimination by authorities, especially in rural areas. The government completed rebuilding 78 churches and other church-owned properties which had been destroyed or damaged in mob violence in 2013 and repaired Saints Peter and Paul Church in Cairo after a December 2016 suicide bombing that killed 29 people. It also issued an unprecedented civil marriage license to a Bahai couple with no religious affiliation designated on their national identity card. The government continued its efforts to preserve the nation’s Jewish heritage, including starting work to renovate and protect a historic synagogue in Alexandria. There were incidents of official anti-Semitism and public anti-Semitic statements by Al-Azhar, the country’s primary institution for spreading Islam and defending Islamic doctrine. According to religious leaders, educators, and families, the Ministry of Education made progress in removing language from school textbooks that it said could engender hate toward non-Muslims or promote the view that Islam was superior to other religions. The government-supported Islamic institutions Al-Azhar and Dar al-Ifta, the country’s fatwa issuing authority, continued to debate reforms to Islamic jurisprudence which mandates the death penalty for apostasy from Islam.
Terrorist kills 3 in Belgium with guns of stabbed police officers
A Knife-wielding man stabs two police officers in the Belgian city of Liege, steals their weapons and shoots them and a bystander dead in an attack prosecutors say is terror-related.
Reuters|Published: 05.29.18 , 14:33
A man killed two policewomen and a bystander in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday before being shot dead in a gunbattle at a school in what prosecutors are treating as a terrorist attack.
The man was named by public broadcaster RTBF as a 36-year-old petty criminal who had been let out on day-release from a local prison on Monday. It said investigators were looking into whether he had converted to Islam and been radicalized in jail.
Gunshots fired in Belgium
A public prosecutor told a news conference that the man attacked the policewomen from behind with a knife, described as a box-cutter by RTBF, around 10:30 am (4.30 am ET) on a boulevard in the center of Belgium’s third city, near the German border.After stabbing the officers, prosecutor Philippe Dulieu said, the man seized one of their handguns and shot both women dead before walking down the street and shooting dead a 22-year-old man who was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car.The man then made his way into a high school where he took a woman employee hostage, triggering a major intervention by armed police. Pupils were moved to safety as a gunbattle broke out that sent people in the street racing for cover. Several police were wounded before the attacker was finally killed.“The event is classed as a terrorist incident,” Dulieu said.
Coptic Christian battles prejudice in Egyptian football
Bassem Aboualabass
Agence France-Presse
Alexandria, Egypt | Mon, May 21, 2018| 06:15 pm
Youth members of (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed)
Mina Bendary dreamed of becoming a professional footballer in Egypt, but found his Coptic Christian name was an insurmountable barrier in the Muslim-majority country.
