U.S. Copts Association

Telegraph  

A terror cell caught with details of bomb-making and suicide vests may have been plotting to attack the Queen and members of the Royal family, it can be disclosed.

The cell, which included Britain’s youngest ever terrorist, arrested on his way home from his GCSE chemistry exam, was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal.
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By  Said Nafie   

Abou Fana local residents’ lawyer Gamal Musaid said the declarations made by MP Alaa Hasanein and a businessman member of the so-called ad-hoc committee charged with solving the Abou Fana monastery problem were not true.
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Egyptians detained without trial or kept in jail during 1990s despite release orders, to be compensated.
CAIRO - Egypt’s interior ministry has agreed to pay compensation to Islamists detained without trial or kept in jail during the 1990s despite obtaining release orders, a ministry source said on Sunday.
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By  Amr Bayoumi- Said Nafie and Teresa Kamal Washington- Soad Amin   

Pope Shenouda III has cancelled a press conference that was scheduled to be held yesterday about the Abu-Fana Monastery crisis and the outcome of the efforts by the ad-hoc committee formed to settle the crisis.
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By  Amr Bayoumi   

BishopThomas, bishop of Qusseya and Meer in the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut, said that those who criticized him over a lecture he gave in the US about Egypt’s Copts adopt anti-church stances.
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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Part II

by Ed Rizkalla

            “Zoxaci O Theos Imon, Alleluia. Piauou pha Pennouti pe, Alleluia”

               “Glory be to Our God, Alleluia. Glory be to Our God, Alleluia”

The Coptic culture has its genesis in the ancient Egyptian history and mythology. The Coptic culture has also been greatly influenced by Christian teachings, which have emphasized some of the old Coptic cultural traits or traditions, modified, and/or changed others. The Coptic culture attributes include: 1) respect for education, knowledge, and love of wisdom, 2) respect for the individual and his or her individuality and creative abilities, 3) respect for the family as an institution established and blessed by God bonding a man and a woman, which forms the corner stone of a civilized society, 4) respect for women and their role in the family and society at large, 5) equality of men and women, 6) taking initiative and a “can-do” approach to life, 7) flexibility, adaptability and innovation, a sunny disposition and joy of life; and other attributes.
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Press Release                     Â
Contact: Dr Helmy Guirguis                  Â
For Immediate Release                                    Â
Birmingham, UK) - The Egyptian daily newspaper ‘Algomhuria’ has been targeting the human rights advocate Dr Naguib Gobrael, the head of the Cairo based Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organisation (EUHRO).The paper’s unparalleled venomous campaign against Dr Gobrael amounts to incitement of violence. Dr Gobrael is a staunch human rights advocate who challenged issues of citizenship and religious freedom of Egyptian Christians, in particular his criticism of Article two of Egypt’s constitution which differentiates between Egyptians on religious basis.
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By  Amr Bayoumi، Said Nafie and Theresa Kamal   

Maged Hana, a legal advisor to Pope Shenouda, said that he received a telephone call from the Pope in which he advised him of his agreement to complete all functions of the customary committee formed to settle issues of the lands of Abu Fana monastery.
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By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer

ROME - Police broke up a suspected terror cell Saturday and arrested five North Africans, including the alleged leader who Italian officials said recruited Islamic extremists for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Egypt starts elaborate project to modernize pyramids area, make it friendlier to tourists.
By Katarina Kratovac - CAIRO

Tourists have long been awed by Egypt’s famed Giza Pyramids and irritated by having to fend off peddlers relentlessly offering camel rides and trinkets.
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