Egypt senior national team not to fast ahead of Rwanda match
Egypt senior national team not to fast ahead of Rwanda match
Bikya Masr
31 August 2009
CAIRO: Ahead of a must-win match on September 5 versus Rwanda in Kigali, Egyptian national team players apparently have agreed not to fast on match day, President of the Egyptian Football Assocaition (EFA) Samir Zaher, said in a press statement. According to him, the squad has agreed that it is not a good idea to fast after a number of religious leaders, including the country’s top religious institution, issued fatwas – Islamic opinions – over the subject. read more »
Egypt: Charity stalls in Alexandria attacked by government security
Egypt: Charity stalls in Alexandria attacked by government security
Bikya Masr
31 August 2009
CAIRO: Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood group reported on Sunday that charity stalls established in Alexandria were attacked by government forces and at least two people have been detained. The stalls are part of the Islamic group’s efforts at giving lower income families the opportunity of purchasing school supplies for their children at reduced rates. read more »
Copts abroad call for national strike in Egypt
Copts abroad call for national strike in Egypt
Bikya Masr
31 August 2009
Egypt Coptic Christian at a service in Cairo read more »
Egypt: Female circumcision crackdown
Egypt: Female circumcision crackdown
Bikya Masr
30 August 2009
CAIRO: Reports on Thursday said that the first doctor in Egypt was being charged under a new Egyptian law that forbids the controversial practice of female genital mutilation, or FGM. The man allegedly illegally circumcised a young girl last week and is being charged after a local hospital notified the authorities following the 11-year-old girl’s admittance into the hospital with heavy bleeding as a result of the procedure.
According to al-Arabiya news organization, the doctor performed the procedure at the girl’s Minya home – some 400 miles south of Cairo – for 150 Egyptian pounds ($27). read more »
Egypt: Al-Azhar website hacked
Egypt: Al-Azhar website hacked
Bikya Masr
30 August 2009
CAIRO: The prominent Sunni Muslim religious institution has become Egypt’s latest Internet victim after it was hacked early Sunday morning. Visitors to the website seeking information on Islam were surprised by the new homepage created by the hackers, who had replaced the original site with a new network that posted the name “sovalye-starturk” in its place. read more »
Egypt: Christians, Muslims clash … again
Egypt: Christians, Muslims clash … again
Bikya Masr
30 August 2009
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces reported that at least 6 Christians were injured in sectarian fighting in the Mitt Damsis village in the Daqahliyah governorate in the Northern Delta region on Friday. Eyewitnesses corroborated the reports after police calmed the area and arrested 16 Christians and Muslims.
Egypt has been hit with a recent spate of sectarian violence. Last month, riots broke out in a Delta village near Mansoura after a teenage Muslim boy was stabbed to death by a Coptic street vendor. Muslim residents attacked the homes of a number of known Copts before police intervened to quiet the situation. read more »
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