During a dawn police raid on four copts' homes, two men and five women, one of them in her seventies, were illegally arrested and torture; and one of the women was sexually assaulted by the investigating officer.
Endowments Minister Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk said the ministry's preachers are not responsible at all for what he called "the fatwa pandemic" that has broken out in so-called religious satellite channels. He said these channels are in truth what most discredits Islam and Muslims given the backward fatwas that they spread across the globe, saying such fatwas turns Muslims into the world's laughing stock.
KHARTOUM 02/02/2009 An American aid group has been thrown out of Sudan's Darfur region after officials found thousands of Arabic-language bibles in its office, state media reported on Saturday.
The Coptic Orthodox Church , celebrated on Saturday, the well-known festival of "Kom Maria", in Dayr Abu Hinnis, a small, isolated Christian village, 186 miles south of Cairo, commemorating the Holy Family's flight into Egypt.
Egypt, Qatar, Israel, Algeria and Sudan voted last Wednesday to remove the status of "consultative" from the Arab Commission for Human Rights at the UN Economic and Social Council for one year.