Two people in critical condition, five others hurt, after assault by Egyptian military.
By Wayne King
CAIRO, Egypt, February 28 (Compass Direct News) – One monk and six church workers were shot and wounded last week when the Egyptian Army attacked a Coptic Orthodox monastery in order to destroy a wall monks had built to defend their property from raiders, sources said.
The attack with small arms, heavy machine guns and armored personnel carriers happened Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 23) at the Anba Bishoy Monastery in Wadi Al-Natroun, 110 kilometers (68 miles) north of Cairo. After a brief argument with monks and workers outside the monastery wall, soldiers opened fire on the crowd, sending them running for cover, sources said.
EU condemns attacks against Christians after previous failure
Country: UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE
“All persons belonging to religious communities and minorities should be able to practice their religion and worship freely, individually or in community with others, without fear of intolerance and attacks.” EU Foreign Affairs Council
EU foreign ministers have condemned attacks against Christians and other religious communities after previously failing to agree a statement that specified Christians among victims of the violence.
The European Union's Foreign Affairs Council met on Monday to reconsider the issue after a debate at the end of last month ended acrimoniously. Baroness Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, came under fire for refusing to include the word "Christian" in the text. Italy's foreign minister Franco Frattini asked for the statement to be withdrawn, saying it displayed an "excess of secularism".
But on Monday the ministers released an agreed statement, which did specifically condemn anti-Christian attacks. It said:
Christian Copts Demonstrate Against Governor in Upper Egypt
(AINA) -- Christian Copts staged a massive demonstration on Monday, February 28, against the Governor of Minya Ahmed Dia-el-Din, calling for his resignation. The demonstration was prompted by the governor's decision to demolish a church community center for the care of the handicapped, located in the village of Deir Barsha, in Mallawi, Minya Governorate.
Al-Qaida No. 2 Alleges Incitement By Egypt's Copts
(AP) -- The deputy to Osama bin Laden issued al-Qaida's second message since the Egyptian uprising, accusing the nation's Christian leadership of inciting interfaith tensions and denying that the terror network was behind last month's bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria that killed 21 and sparked protests.
'British troops burn in hell': Muslim extremists face EDL supporters in ugly scenes outside poppy-burning trial
World War Two veteran's grandson's 'tears of rage' as he watched demonstration during two minutes' silence
Muslim extremists chanted ‘British troops burn in hell’ outside a court today, as two men went on trial for burning poppies on Remembrance Day.
Ugly scenes erupted outside Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court, south-east London, as Muslims gathered to support Mohammed Haque and Emdadur Choudhury, who are accused of using ‘threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour’.
Their supporters’ chants of ‘democracy, hypocrisy’ were met with jeers from members of the English Defence League who waved flags of St George and placards of poppies.
Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 25, 2011
A 20-year-old Saudi student who was arrested in Lubbock, Tex., late Wednesday was close to constructing a bomb and had researched possible targets, including the Dallas home of former president George W. Bush and the residences of three Americans who served at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, authorities said.
Egyptian Armed Forces Fire At Christian Monasteries, 19 Injured
By Mary Abdelmassih
(AINA) -- For the second time in as many days, Egyptian armed force stormed the 5th century old St. Bishoy monastery in Wadi el-Natroun, 110 kilometers from Cairo. Live ammunition was fired, wounding two monks and six Coptic monastery workers. Several sources confirmed the army's use of RPG ammunition. Four people have been arrested including three monks and a Coptic lawyer who was at the monastery investigating yesterday's army attack.
(AINA) -- Egyptian armed forces this week demolished fences surrounding ancient Coptic monasteries, leaving them vulnerable to attacks by armed Arabs, robbers and escaped prisoners, who have seized the opportunity of the state of diminished protection by the authorities in Egypt to carry out assaults and thefts.
The European Union denounced attacks against Christians and Muslims on Monday, having previously failed to agree a statement that included Christianity among persecuted religious faiths.
The EU began a debate about religious violence after an attack on a Coptic Christian church in northern Egypt at the end of December left 23 people dead and dozens wounded.
Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak
Hugh Tomlinson Riyadh
February 10 2011 12:01AM
Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually.
Al-Qaida in Iraq Urges Egyptian Protesters to Wage Jihad
WASHINGTON (Xinhua) -- The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), the al-Qaida front in Iraq, urged the Egyptian protesters to wage Jihad and establish a Islamic law-based government, terrorist monitoring group SITE said Tuesday.
The ISI addressed the "uprising people of Egypt" in a statement issued on Jihadist forums, the U.S.-based group said.
In the statement, the ISI said protesters must realize that the "market of Jihad has opened in Egypt" and every able-bodied man must participate.
Muslims Attack Two Christian Families in Egypt, 11 Killed
By Mary Abdelmassih
(AINA) -- News of a massacre of two Christian Coptic families by Islamists just emerged from Upper Egypt with the return of the Internet connections after a week of Internet blackout by the Egyptian regime. The massacre took place on Sunday, January 30 at 3 PM in the village of Sharona near Maghagha, Minya province. Two Islamists groups, aided by the Muslim neighbors, descended on the roof of houses owned by Copts, killing eleven Copts, including children, and seriously injuring four others.
بلاغ ضد وزير الداخلية بشأن ممارسات الشرطة غير الإنسانية ضد الصحفيين
مقدم من : نادر شكري هنري صحفي بجريدة وطن وعضو نقابة الصحفيين
الذي تم الاعتداء عليه وسحله أثناء تأدية عمله .
السيد/ المستشار النائب العام – السيد نقيب الصحفيين
تحية طيبة وبعد
يكفل الدستور المصري حق التعبير وحقوق الصحفيين كسلطة رابعة وتمثل نقابة الصحفيين حصن الدفاع عن أعضائها والحفاظ على كرامتهم التي هى جزء أساسي من هيبة النقابة وتعمل دائما على رد حقوق أعضائها الذين يقومون بواجبهم نحو الوطن والمواطنين ونقل مطالبهم وحقوقهم ، وبما أن الدستور والقانون يكفلان الحماية والأمان وتيسير مهامه للحصول على المعلومات دون ضغوط أو تعرضه لاى وسائل العنف أو الاعتقال…
THE panic-stricken family of President Mubarak has reportedly fled Egypt for the luxurious refuge of their £8.5million London townhouse.
The leader's son Gamal, 47, is said to have spearheaded the move, flying to Britain on a private jet with his own family and NINETY-SEVEN pieces of luggage.
Accused terrorists planned to cut the throats of reporters at a
Danish newspaper that printed Mohammed cartoons, police wiretaps reveal.
The men hoped to kill as many people as possible at Jyllands-Posten
within 20 minutes, recordings made by the Danish security service PET
and published Monday in the Ekstra Bladet newspaper show.
Women Under Sharia Law, Part 1: Two Pakistani Women Blamed For Blasphemy and Beaten
by Paul Cooper
Every week new articles come out from left-leaning journalists about how great Sharia law is and how we have nothing to fear. Yet we at NewsReal have written on many sad cases of how children are treated under Sharia all over the world. You don’t hear the whole story of the dangers of Islamic law unless you see how it affects women. This past week in Pakistan, for example, two women were falsely accused of blasphemy and almost beaten to death.
Collapsing Churches Prompt Protests in Egypt For New Law on Church Construction
(AINA)
Unusually bad winter weather in Upper Egypt all last week focused attention once again on the controversial restrictions on church building. The rainy weather caused roofs of dilapidated churches -- which have been waiting for years to receive construction permits -- to collapse.
Copts protest inside Beni Suef church to stop dome demolition
By Essam Fadl /Special to Daily News Egypt
CAIRO: Copts protested inside the Ezbet Gaafar Church in Al-Fashn town, Beni Suef, after a decision by the city’s administration office to demolish the church’s dome.
