Departs December 28. WET AND WILD: For the adventure-minded, a cruise to the Australian and New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands may be just the thing. Cruise liner Orion has a range of expedition specialists aboard its tours in...
A state of fear has gripped the Christian inhabitants in the Upper Egyptian town of Mallawi after a Muslim mob tried to kill a Christian man for frequenting a Muslim-run brothel. They fear wide-scale Muslim violence against...
By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service EGYPT (ANS) -- On October 24, 2009 Egyptian State Security recently arrested a Christian Copt in the village of Deir Samalout, Samalout, Minia province, for praying...
During a recent interview with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Msgr. Ibrahim Sedrak, Coptic Catholic Bishop of Minya, Egypt, took the opportunity to discuss the social and pastoral work being done by his...
Egypt (AINA) -- On Tuesday evening, October 27, a Muslim mob attacked the Church of St. George in the village of Nazlet Albadraman, located in the Deir Mawas District, Minya Province. The attack was prompted by the restoration...
CAIRO, Oct 28, 2009 (AFP) - Thirty people were arrested on Wednesday after Muslims and Coptic Christians clashed over the building of a church tower in a village in southern Egypt, a security official said. Three people were...
The universities of Cairo, Alexandria, Mansoura and Minya witnessed student demonstrations on Monday against the recent storming of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli security forces. Campus security guards clashed with...
Assiut, Egypt - Eleven people were killed and 18 injured when a minibus collided with a truck in southern Egypt on Sunday, police told the German Press Agency dpa. The accident took place near the village of al-Badari, some 380...
The World BankWorld Bank's annual Doing Business report has long lauded Egypt for its work on regulatory reform. The Alexandria Business Association (ABA) released its own Islah (reform) Index, which refines the indicators...