Court orders lenient sentence for disdain of Islam
The Court of Cassation has cancelled the six-year prison sentence handed to Makarem Diyab Saïd a 49-year-old teacher from the ...
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Pope orders investigation
WATANI International20 July 2011 Some 150 Coptic protestors demonstrated last Monday at the grounds of St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral and ...
Holy orders
WATANI International 20 November 2011 The religious current is still calling out that “Islam is the answer”; despite the ...
Egypt Orders Tighter Security After Church Bombing
Egyptian authorities increased security around churches on Monday as sectarian tensions mountedafter a bombing in the coastal city of Alexandria that ...
Watani started as an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. To this day when Watani is published as a weekly paper and an online news site, the objective remains the same. Those in charge of Watani view this role as a patriotic all-Egyptian vocation. Special attention is given to shedding light on Coptic culture and tradition as authentically Egyptian, this being a topic largely disregarded or little-understood by Egypt’s media. Watani is deeply dedicated to offer its readers high quality, extensive, objective, credible and well-researched media coverage, with special focus on Coptic issues, culture, heritage, and contribution to Egyptian society.
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