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Editorial supervisor, Dr. Helmy Guirguis
 
Dr. Helmy Guirguis 71, the president of the UK Copts, passed away on the 31 of January, 2015 after a struggle with illness. UK Copts mourns its founder and leader. He is a leader that touched so many by his life and has been fighting for the coptic case till his last breath. The commemoration mass for his 40th day will be held on Sunday 15th of March, 2014 starting 8 AM in Saint Mary and Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Centre of Birmingham (Lapworth) .For commiserations, please send us an email to info@copts.co.uk

Justice or “Just Us”

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Published: Monday, 06 May 2013 18:20
Written by Lotfy Basta MD,


To paraphrase Richard Pryor the famed American Citizen Justice has become Just Us at the expense of all others. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln then the American President, in commenting on the Civil War said, “In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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A distressing map of religious freedom around the world

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Published: Friday, 03 May 2013 17:03
Written by Max Fisher

Washington Post

Egypt is one of fifteen “tier 1″ nations, have committed “particularly severe” violations that are “systemic, ongoing and egregious.”


The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued a report highlighting those it calls the worst violators of religious freedom in the world.

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64 percent of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan support the death penalty for leaving Islam

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Published: Wednesday, 01 May 2013 22:51
Written by Max Fisher

Washington Post



The Pew Research Center’s vast new study on the views and attitudes of global Muslim populations was bound to create controversy.

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Can Egypt’s Transition and Economy Be Saved?

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Published: Thursday, 02 May 2013 21:39
Written by Hafez Ghanem

The Brookings Institution

The Egyptian economy is unlikely to collapse suddenly. However, in the absence of a serious macroeconomic stabilization program it will continue to deteriorate gradually, with low growth and increasing unemployment and inflation.

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EGYPT 2012 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

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Published: Sunday, 21 April 2013 18:13
Written by U.S. State Department


http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm?year=2012&dlid=204357#wrapper

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Egypt is a republic led by President Mohamed Morsy. The government’s source of authority for all but the final six days of the year was the provisional constitution issued by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in March 2011, which was based on the 1971 constitution, and supplemental constitutional declarations issued by President Morsy on August 12 and November 22.

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  3. Voting Patterns in Post-Mubarak Period
  4. European Parliament resolution on the situation in Egypt
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U.S. International Religious Freedom Report for 2013 – Egypt

Respect for religious freedom remained poor during the year under both former President Mohamed Morsy’s administration and the current interim government. On July 3, Mohamed Morsy was removed and Adly Mansour was named interim president.

FCO Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013

Foreign Secretary William Hague launched the 2013 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report on Human Rights and Democracy. The report is a comprehensive assessment of the global human rights situation in 2013. It sets out what the Government is doing through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to promote human rights and democratic values around the world in three principal ways.

75 Percent of Persecution is Against Christians: Report

The 2013 Persecuted and Forgotten? Report provides in-depth analysis of the situation Christians face in 30 countries where believers, to one degree or another, are not fully free to practice their faith. In the past two years violence and intimidation targeting Christians have increased in a number of nations.

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