Topic: North Africa
Islamists who swept to victory in the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections were looking to consolidate their winning streak in a second round of voting Wednesday.Some 18.8 million Egyptians are eligible to cast their ballots in this round of the first ...
Egypt's Islamists said on Sunday they would not accept any interference from the ruling military council over the future constitution amid uncertainty about the army's role in the process."No one except the elected parliament has the right to draft legislation," Khairat al-Shater, ...
Egyptian Copts, the Middle East's biggest Christian community, headed to mass on Sunday fearful of what an Islamist landslide in the country's election will mean for their community.In churches across the capital, the community gathered for its first Sunday service since the ...
BETHANY BEYOND THE JORDAN, Jordan (Reuters) - Only five years ago, critical remarks by Pope Benedict about Islam sparked off violent protests in several Muslim countries.Never very good, relations between the world's two largest religions sank to new lows in modern times.This ...
(Reuters) - More democracy is bringing more political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring, but Islamist statements about sharia or religion in politics are only rough indicators of what the real effect might be.The strong showing of Tunisia's moderate Islamists ...
(Reuters) - More democracy is bringing more political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring, but Islamist statements about sharia or religion in politics are only rough indicators of what the real effect might be.The strong showing of Tunisia's moderate Islamists ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council has amended election rules to ban the use of religious slogans, a move the Muslim Brotherhood said Sunday may prompt it to reconsider using its traditional campaign phrase "Islam is the solution."The Brotherhood was banned ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly a third of the world's population lives in countries where it is becoming more difficult to freely practice religion, a private U.S. research group reported on Tuesday.The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life said government ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has decided to resume formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, in a step that reflects the Islamist group's growing political weight but that is almost certain to ...
CAIRO/ALEXANDRIA (Reuters) - Down the narrow alleyways of Cairo's Sayidda Zeinab neighborhood, 100 men sway their heads and clap in rhythm as they invoke God's name."O how you have spread benevolence," chant the men, some dressed in ankle-length galabeya robes, to celebrate ...
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Mideast Egypt Church Attack
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