As lockdown clears the air, Cairo looks to keep pollution low
Cairo, EgyptThomson Reuters Foundation It is a Thursday evening in downtown Cairo, usually a crowded and noisy time as the weekend gets underway. But today the streets are quiet, and the air is noticeably clean. “It has been a long time since I breathed such fresh air here and saw the sky clean like that,” […]
Living in uncertainty: Life stands still in Egypt’s City of the Dead as coronavirus fear spreads
MENNA A FAROUK, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Egypt on the plight of informal workers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic…
SNAPSHOT: STREET SCENE IN CAIRO, EGYPT
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Series of fires in Egyptian churches “not a coincidence”, say Copts
World Watch Monitor Three Coptic churches in the Upper Egypt region were hit by fires in the last three weeks which, the Copts say, is “not a coincidence”. On Friday morning, 1st November, a fire started in an adjacent hall of the Mar-Girgis (St George) al-Gyoushi Church in the Shubra district of the capital Cairo; it was […]
Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Morsi dies after collapsing in court
Cairo, EgyptReuters Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt’s modern history, died on Monday aged 67 after collapsing in a Cairo court while on trial on espionage charges, authorities said. Morsi, a top figure in the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, had been in jail since being toppled by the […]
Christian NGO takes faith-based, holistic approach to HIV and AIDS care in Egypt
In Egypt, a country now counting 100 million inhabitants, and where 2.5 per cent are added annually, it is increasingly hard for the government to keep pace with the needs of its people. A growing influx of refugees, now adding up to around four million people, puts further strain on health care, schools and other […]
Eleven men sent for trial for attacking Copts in Egypt
World Watch Monitor Eleven men suspected of an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt’s capital Cairo a year ago will have to appear before a criminal court, reports Coptic news site Watani. The suspects were caught by police following a double attack on the Mar Mina and Pope Kyrillos VI Coptic Orthodox Church in the Helwan district south of Cairo, […]
Seventeen people sentenced to death for Coptic church bomb attacks in Egypt
World Watch Monitor Egypt’s military court has handed death sentences to 17 people accused of bomb attacks on Coptic churches in 2016 and 2017, the BBC reports. The 17 people sentenced to death in Egypt were involved in bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Cairo, Alexandria and Tanta in 2016 and 2017. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor. […]
EGYPT: COPTIC ABBOT’S MURDER POINTS TO STRAINS OVER ECUMENISM
JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER and MINA NADER, writing for Religion News Service, report…
Suicide attack on Coptic church foiled in Egypt
World Watch Monitor A suicide attack on a Coptic church in north Cairo, Egypt, was thwarted on Saturday, 12th August, reports Coptic news site Watani. A man wearing a suicide vest detonated the bomb about 250 metres from the Church of the Holy Virgin in the Mostorod district. He was killed instantly, as was a member of the public, […]