30 held in investigation of Minya sectarian clashes
CAIRO/MINYA: The Sammallout Prosecution Office in Minya detained 18 Copts and 12 Muslims for four days pending investigation after sectarian clashes broke out in El-Tayaba village, in which one Copt…
MP questions Egyptian commandoes' role in rescuing desert hostages
CAIRO: MP Hamdy Hassan filed a memo at the People s Assembly (PA) to the minister of defense, questioning the Egyptian security forces role in the rescue of the19 hostages…
Ibrahim Eissa receives presidential pardon
CAIRO: In an official decree, President Hosni Mubarak pardoned Al-Dostour Editor Ibrahim Eissa from the two-month jail sentence the latter received for "publishing false information of a nature to disturb…
Six monasteries close their doors due to security threats
CAIRO: Three monasteries closed their doors Saturday following threats of vandalism in retaliation for the rumored killing of Wafaa Constantine, a priest's wife who had reportedly converted to Islam and…
After Ramadan, sibha dealers look forward to the Hajj season
CAIRO: As the sale of prayer beads - known in Egypt as 'sibha' - reaches its first, albeit lesser, peak in the holy fasting month of Ramadan, dealers prepare for…
Pope warns against Godless culture as Synod opens
ROME: Pope Benedict XVI attacked the Godless character of modern culture as he celebrated mass Sunday in a Roman basilica to mark the opening of a synod of Catholic bishops.In…
Hard Talk: Businessmen's conflicts
If Karl Marx were resurrected and visited Egypt he would have reconsidered many aspects of his theory. Marx witnessed one of the most important stages of European capitalism in the…
In praise of a brave woman
CHICAGO: In the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that dominates everyone s attention and the news, another fight for the protection of children, families and Christian education is taking place…
Oslo at 15 years – a vanishing dream
WASHINGTON: Last month marked 15 years since the signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on the South Lawn of the White House, launching the Oslo process and a new…
Disarming the Middle East
TEL AVIV: Israel's desperate plea that the world act to curtail what its intelligence service describes as Iran's "gallop toward a nuclear bomb has not gotten the positive response that…
