CAIRO — Christians in Egypt have thrown their full support behind the popular uprising that has toppled the Islamist government of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood after suffering the worst persecution in decades. Egypt’s Christians have celebrated the Egyptian Army’s decision to force President Morsi out of power and set up a new
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling on authorities in a German state to investigate threatening anti-Israel rhetoric, including chants of “Down with Israel” and “Israel be cursed” at a rally last week in support of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. “We are horrified that supporters of Prime Minister Erdogan are using political protests in
The man appointed to be Egypt’s new foreign minister once served as the country’s ambassador to the United States. Nabil Fahmy accepted his new post on Sunday morning as the interim government in Cairo continues to be established two weeks after the overthrow of former President Mohamed Morsi. According to the website of the
Egypt’s public prosecutor on Sunday ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists, as the U.S. dispatched its first senior official to Cairo since President Mohammed Mursi’s ouster. U.S. Under Secretary of State Bill Burns will visit Egypt from Sunday to Tuesday, the State Department said, adding he would “underscore U.S.
Egypt’s military leadership had urged ousted President Mohammad Mursi “twice” to hold a referendum on whether he should stay in power to avoid political turmoil, the country’s Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday. “The military forces have worked to give an opportunity for politicians to be responsible and to
Protesters in Cairo’s Rabia al-Adawiya Square believe they have seen the light. In a show of support for Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Mursi, a preacher giving a sermon at the Square this week told the crowds of a miracle. In the speech, broadcast on Egyptian satellite channels, the preacher said the Angel Gabriel
The Muslim Brotherhood’s 80-year dream to take over Egypt ended in a fiasco, barely one year after one of their own was democratically elected to the office of President of Egypt. What are the possible scenarios? In Egypt on July 3, 2013, for the first time in the modern history of the Middle
Egyptian security officials arrested a Palestinian Authority Arab man on Friday in connection to a bomb blast which targeted a gas pipeline in Sinai last week, security officials told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. Mohamed Abu Hashem, 30, was detained in the Sinai Peninsula while trying to return to Gaza, Egyptian officials
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is officially under criminal investigation, the public prosecutor announced in a statement Saturday. Although not yet formally charged, prosecutors said they were looking into complaints of incitement to violence, spying and ruining the economy. The charges are similar to those leveled against eight other top figures in the
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed alarm at reports that U.S. officials have conducted "direct meetings" with Hamas leaders and has called upon the Obama Administration to deny these reports if they are untrue. The United States, Europe and Israel all classify the Hamas movement, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since
