Two months on legalisation of 24th batch of churches: 25th batch approved
On 13 February 2023, Egypt’s official gazette published the Prime Minister’s decision approving the legalisation of status of a 25th ...
Tag: legalising unlicensed churches
Seven months on legalisation of 23rd batch of churches: 24th batch approved
The Egyptian folk saying goes: “Oh God who eases difficulties! The bigger portion has been accomplished … what remains is ...
23rd batch of unlicensed churches approved for legality
Following some four months of anticipation, Copts welcomed the Cabinet Decision 34/2022 on 11 May approving legalisation of a new ...
Where unlicensed churches stand today
In this issue, Watani prints the details of the most recent of the Cabinet decisions that grant legality to given ...
Luggage we carry into 2021
Last year, I started 2020 with reviewing Egyptian issues that had not been resolved in 2019 and had thus to ...
Reading into 17th decision for legalising churches
Under the title “Back to legalising unlicensed churches”, I wrote earlier this month reviewing the latest decision by the Cabinet ...
Back to legalising unlicensed churches
On 19 October 2020, the Egyptian Cabinet spokesperson announced that Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly had presided over the Cabinet committee ...
On legalising unlicensed churches: “So little over, so much lies ahead”
Problems on hold Ever since the Law for Building and Restoring Churches was issued in September 2016, Watani has been ...
To speed up legalising churches: President’s intervention needed
Problems on hold The date 28 October 2018 marked 13 months on the start of activity of the Cabinet-affiliated committee ...
Legalising unlicensed churches: In 11 months: 220 approvals out of 3730 required
Problems on hold When the long-awaited Law for the Building and Restoration of Churches went into effect on 28 September ...
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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