Forced displacement returned to the scene under auspices of officials and MPs who took an oath to respect the Constitution that prohibit forced displacement. Unfortunately, most Egyptian intellectuals ignore that the majority of Christians live in Upper Egypt where 90 percent of the churches need legalization of their status, and that most of them are built on agricultural Land and don’t have even have ownership documents like most of the buildings there. According to the law No. 119 to build churches, most of these churches will not be approved by the Commission appointed by the Parliament. Islamic houses of worship will never suffer the same giving the fact that more than 150 churches in Minya are closed for security reasons which gives the Copts in these villages that they are oppressed by their government.
Like our fathers, we are very attached to our land. People from many countries traveled to trade when the Egyptians preferred to stay and plant their land. I was born in Assiut in Upper Egypt, a city that boasts Pharaonic origins. My family didn’t like traveling and especially immigrations. They almost held my funeral when I decided to immigrate. Over the years, I couldn’t forget about my home land where my heart stayed. The decision to immigrate was not easy at all, but such decision comes with a divine plan in my life.
Nermin Rafik, is the first Egyptian and Arab woman to join the Committee of the International Federation of Wrestling. This came after Egyptian Wrestling Federation nominated an Egyptian woman named Nermin Rafik for membership in the Women's Committee of the International Federation of Wrestling.
As I already said before as time passes and new article is due I start following the news in research of Egypt's news but all I could see a lot of JOY for qualifying to the finals in soccer football that thanks to Abudrika I stop following Soccer and Ahly my all time favorite team! I noticed too lots of comments on escalating prices that never go down, and as well government observations on prices but still no limits to prices rising non stop!
After seven years of being absent from the African cup, the football team could be in the final against all the speculations that claimed that the Egyptian team will be out from the beginning of the championship. In fact, some of these speculations came from experts in football and previous coaches like “Hassan Shehataâ€, who was saying that Mr. Copper, is not qualified enough to train the Egyptian team, however, this coach reached the final until now.
We have not taken a single step towards developing the performance of state leaders in Egypt, despite our repeated claims to establish a supreme council for the development of future plans for the country to choose the appropriate ministers and officials and put long-term plans to solve the chronic problems of health, education, and administrative corruption. This should be the mission of national security and military intelligence no more. I hope that those who plan are not the same people who carry out the plans since this is a major disaster in management science. The same failure policy leads to increasing corruption with neglect and confusion of the governmental officials.
With the state of political partisanship and intellectual dependency on the Egyptian arena, many people despise the revolution of January 25 and accuse it of causing many destruction and losses. However, this was not the case in the first days of the revolution when everybody was happy in the streets hoping for better future for Egypt. The regime was retard back then to understand the new state since it was only thinking about making deals with the terrorist organization. At that time, the Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to have 88 chairs in the Parliament in order to support sectarian strife in the Egyptian society. Egypt's youth came out rejecting such chaos and mixing between politics and religion. They refused guardianship of the Church and Al-Azhar in the political matter and demonstrated against their recommendation. Those youth raised national slogans and sang the old songs of Egyptian rebels in 1919 and 1952. Furthermore, they wrote new songs and drew graffiti to express their revolution, but this graffiti is being erased by the government hoping to erase all memories related to it.
No doubt that Mr. President Abdel Fattah Sisi feels the danger of religious extremism, and thus he talked a lot about the renewal of religious discourse in many occasions. Too few steps have been taken in that account, but his visits to the Cathedral to congratulate the Copts on their feasts was a good move to face calls to prohibit congratulating the Copts on their feasts spread for years.
The United States has a strong motivation to return a strong and a great country once again after the election of Donald Trump. As a global reaction to the inauguration of Trump, many people demonstrated in America and all over the world, except in the Arab world. However Trump attacked the Muslims and Arab countries, people in these countries believe they don't have the right to choose their own president, what's more for other countries? Therefore, Arab people preferred to stay in their homes and curse those who took away their freedom. Public figures in America hate Trump who thinks he came to liberate America. Trump decided to annul Obama Care and prefers to help the Americans get jobs and pay for their own health insurance instead of waiting for the state to provide it. Trump thinks that five trillion US investments in Mexico and Canada should return to his country.
As time passes on and my new article is due I start watching the news I need to know what is going on in Egypt! A full day I did watch the only Egyptian channel I receive abroad -ESC- that is channel 1! The news I had were about the “Youth Conference†in Aswan, the visit of the Egyptian President El-Sisi and his visit to inspect the Hi Dam there his visit to Army and Police officers thanking them for their efforts to maintain security in upper Egypt! By the way I thank them too and wish them all the Best in the memorial of the Police day -25th January- and on this issue I saw some funny Facebook comments pointing out that the day was peaceful and wondering if President Trump did cut of supplies from Muslim brotherhood!
After Trump decision of banning people from Seven Muslim country from entering the united statess, The media in the west sarted to talk about the Islamophobia started. Unfortunately, the western media and the eastern media talk about Islamophobia because of Trump decesion and no one talk about Chrsitian-phobia in the east. Muslims talk about human rights and freedom when it comes to their freedom and their rights but never talk about other people rights. I haven't heard any media in the east calling for demonstration against what happened to christian in Iraq, Lybia, Syria and even Egypt.
In the last few months, president Sisi took many measurements that showed without a doubt, that he failed in managing many internal issues. I remember when the 25th of January revolution sparked, one of its demands was "the bread" and now Egyptians can hardly make a living. Sisi's policies made most Egyptians more poor and more desprate. Sisi failed in providing fair priced medicine to Egyptians, now prices are more than most can afford. Sisi failed in keeping the Egyptian Pound strong and float the Egyptian Pound which led the Egyptian pound to lose 120% percent of its value.
After an old Coptic Christian woman was stripped off and dragged along the streets of the Egyptian city of Minya as hundreds of people watched, the case was closed for lack of evidence. The case dates back to May 2016 when she was attacked amid clashes over a claimed love affair involving a Christian man and a Muslim woman from the Karm village in Minya. The Muslim wife assured later that her former husband is behind such rumors in order to blackmail her. However, the violence attacks against Christians in the village led to the torching of a number of houses belonging to Coptic Christians as well as attacking the old woman and her daughter in law.
Nobody can fairly judge the decisions of the Egyptian government unless he or she really knows about the very details of all decisions they make. However, criticism is granted for everybody as the freedom of expression is granted. Yet, I want to talk here about the people who are grumbling all the time because of the increasing prices. The rich and the poor finally found something in common that they can talk about. Moreover, some people started to enjoy that talk instead of seeking hard working at such critical moment in our history. It is a good chance for Egypt to recover and fix the situation in a country that faces a lot of conspiracies financed by several foreign countries and organizations. We should give them no chance to frustrate us and lead our country to failure.
The same scenario happened with the medication without slight change starting with shortage of a supply, people cry, the government deny, many people accused of being behind the fake crisis before other people call to boycott the item as a solution. Then, the prices are increased in order to provide the item back in the market. The same scenario happened before with the dollar, and baby milk, sugar, rice, and other items in the Egyptian market. However, Medicine is a totally different issue since the patients cannot simply boycott the item as a treatment, as he does with «meat and life ware» since refraining from taking drug is life threatening.
The cry of Obama in his last speech what was underestimated by Donald Trump marks the transitional period in America. The Americans are divided between supporting Trump and hating his racism. Obama sees America as a great nation, which is true. Yet, he only feels sorry for his family that supported him in his hard time, but he should have been regretting what he did by founding and supporting ISIS. He refused racism against Muslims, but he practiced it against all enemies of their friends, the Muslim Brotherho
The funeral of Paul and Laura (daughter of Karl Marx) Lafargue in Paris is attended by Lenin; the two socialists died in a suicide pact in the belief that their political usefulness was at an end! Lenin said: Imperialism is caused by capitalism! Well talking of Russia I would jump in today's events, Trump accuses media of faking the story of Russian help to win elections, on the other hand I see and hear Tayyip ErdoÄŸan expecting a meeting with Putin the Russian president to discuss Syrian problem as we see Syrian refugees still suffering! Moreover, Erdogan confirmed today that Turkey stays forever in Cyprus just like Israel remains forever in Palestine regardless of any UN recommendations!
Nowadays it seems like everyone is getting to the list of “terrorists†or “conspirers†or “a general threat†The most recent is Abu Trekka. Whether the convictions are true or not, is not my point. If it is true, wow, that’s terrible. If not true, well, it’s equally is terrible from the Government. More and more we are hearing messages from the Government condemning people for doing these “unacceptable†acts against the country. I don’t mean to say it’s not serious if Abu Trekka was actually funding the Muslim Brotherhood or not. If he was actually doing that, then shame on him, and what a disgrace!
Christ had heart of gold. His heart was full of love for everybody. He cared for righteous and sinners, children and adults, the hungry, the sick people, the needy and those who are in captivity. The late Pope Shenouda III told us about Jesus Christ and how he was always working for the convenience of all. Jesus said "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest". He healed the sick and those were oppressed of the devil. He felt compassion for the sinner and lead them to repentance. He announced that "healthy people do not need a physician, but the sick, he did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance".
The important role of media is undeniable all over the world, especially in the formation of public opinion and the formation of the conscience of the people and their trends of thinking. Such increasing importance proved that there is no free media all over the world including televisions, websites and newspapers, and social media. The majority media already have agendas to achieve including American media like CNN that supported Hillary Clinton during the American presidential elections and FOX NEWS that supported Donald Trump. Other media supports countries like Aljazirah that works for Qatar. Other organizations and allies have agendas that media is used to achieve them.
Karama libraries « Dignity » is an initiative carried out by «The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information» to create five public libraries in the popular neighborhoods of Cairo to encourage people to read for free. They believe that knowledge and education are key elements to develop countries. Awareness may enable people to learn about their rights and even claim them, but people in over populated areas are not able to read and develop their skills. The government decided to shut down the libraries instead of monitoring them and prevent illegal acts inside them. The government could run them or cooperate with its management to spread the idea all over Egypt. Yet, the government and police prefer to shut down libraries. They don’t really believe people have rights to read and learn for free. They don’t even believe they are key elements to develop Egypt. The government wants to prevent reading in order to keep the people ignorant.
Mina M. Azer
The Coptic Christians are used to eat taro and reeds at the feast of Epiphany, which commemorates the baptizing of Jesus Christ in Jordan River.