Tag: religion

During the election, members of the clergy and lay representatives from dioceses all over the world will select the final three nominees. (Photo by Mohamed Omar)
EgyptPolitics

Changes to Coptic papal selection

Election set for 29 October, final selection on 4 November.

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
Mecca is already awash with pilgrims who have arrived from around the world for this year's hajj. (AFP Photo/ FAYEZ NURELDINE)
PoliticsRegion

Muslim pilgrims flood Mecca for hajj

Thursday marks the most important day, when all pilgrims assemble in the…

Daily News Egypt Daily News Egypt

The good Muslim

Religion has become the newest weapon of choice turning religious practice from…

Sara Abou Bakr Sara Abou Bakr
Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly before 1950. Basma Moussa / Daily News Egypt
In Focus

Baha’is in Egypt

The 25 January revolution gave everyone hope for change, and the Baha’i…

Lucy Provan Lucy Provan
Coptic Christian families are still waiting for justice to be served Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
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Remembering the Maspero massacre: one year on

A closer look at the massacre, and the unserved justice

Daily News Egypt Daily News Egypt
A photo of one of the supporters of The Uprising of Women in the Arab World group Taken from The Uprising of Women in the Arab World Facebook group
PoliticsRegion

Facebook campaign for women’s rights goes global

Photo campaign gains hundreds of responses in one week

Joel Gulhane Joel Gulhane
Alber Saber, a political activist and blogger, was also arrested for comments made over social networking websites Hassan Ibrahim
EgyptPolitics

Contempt of religion charges disproportionately target Copts

Hundreds could face the same treatment by the end of the year…

Ahmed Aboulenein Ahmed Aboulenein
The entrance to Ben Ezra synagogue in Old Cairo Campbell MacDiarmid
In Focus

No strangers in the land of Egypt

The long history of Jews in the Nile Valley

Daily News Egypt Daily News Egypt
A criminal court ruled on Monday to release Islamic preacher “Abu Islam”, on bail of 20, 000 Egyptian pounds in a blasphemy case. (File Photo) AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
EgyptPolitics

Abu Islam, Abu Youssef and a journalist brought to court

Abu Islam claims to be protecting the Islamic doctrine

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
The Constitutional Assembly debates clauses of the new constitution (File photo) Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
EgyptPolitics

Egyptian Constitutional Front seeks representative constitution

Group to hold Tuesday press conference

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh