Update on Coptic issues carried into 2020
As 2019 drew to a close, I reviewed a number of Coptic issues that had not been resolved during the ...
Tag: Copts
So little over so much lies ahead
Problems on hold On 3 November 2019, the Prime Minister issued Decision 35 for 2019 which conditionally approved the ...
Missing Coptic women: a perennial headache
The first week of this month, June 2019, saw the resolution of two cases of Coptic young women who ...
In Minya: Unruliness not sectarian incidents
Problems on hold Watani’s issue of 20 January 2019 could have very well held the headline “Special issue on the ...
Prime Minister unfamiliar with Christian feasts?
Problems on hold On 2 July 2018, the Official Gazette’s issue 26 bis was published. It included the Prime ...
Mr President, take note: Copts are attacked, churches closed
Problems on hold Under the title “Contemplations on President’s swearing in”, I wrote last week commenting on the speech ...
A new batch of churches legalised: proof is in the application
Problems on hold Last month the Cabinet’s Committee for legalising the status of unlicensed churches approved ...
Hardliners defy church building law; will they win?
Two de-facto village churches in Esna, some 58km south of Luxor on the Luxor-Aswan Road, have been attacked by Muslim ...
Again: If disgraceful, why do we do it?
Problems on hold Where Coptic issues are concerned, Egypt’s House of Representatives notoriously persists in hiding its head in the ...
Year in review: Copts’ right to worship
Problems on hold As we bid 2017 goodbye, I wish Egypt and her people a happy, peaceful 2018 full of ...
More churches harassed
Problems on hold Either there is a deliberate intention to drag Egypt into a series of problems that concern churches ...
When churches are closed by the police
In the space of a single week that began 22 October, four churches in Upper Egypt were closed down by ...
Killed on identity
Copts on pilgrimage to St Samuel desert monastery are stopped by Islamist terrorists and shot to death It was Friday, ...
The number of Copts: should it be announced?
Problems on hold The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) is currently conducting a census the results of which ...
The Emergency Law: Reading between the lines
Problems on hold The Palm Sunday (9 April) twin suicide bombings at the church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in the mid-Delta ...
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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