A security source denied, Friday reports circulated on social media platforms about attacking a monastery in Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt. The source described these reports as “baseless”. In April 2020, Egypt’s cabinet headed by Prime...اقرأ المزيد
The committee in charge of legalizing the status of unlicensed churches in Egypt chaired by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli on Tuesday approved legalizing the status of 90 churches and affiliated service buildings nationwide. The meeting was attended...اقرأ المزيد
New 156 churches and church-affiliated service buildings were announced to be legalized on March 5; the total number of legalized churches amounts to 783. The committee concerned with legalizing unlicensed churches, headed by Prime minster Mostafa Madbouly,...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Ministry of Housing has issued decisions to allocate lands to establish 37 churches in various new cities since 2014, Walid Abbas, assistant housing minister revealed. In an interview with Egypt Today, Abbas said that the government’s New...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi announced his decision to form a supreme committee to manage the World Heritage Sites in Egypt. Engineer Sherif Ismail, Assistant to the President on national and strategic projects, will head the committee; the...اقرأ المزيد
The National Committee for Developing and Preserving Historic Cairo held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, under the chairmanship of former Prime Minister and current Assistant to the President of the Republic for National and Strategic Projects, Sherif...اقرأ المزيد
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail signed a new decree raising the fees of drinking water and sanitation services by 46.5 percent , a second consecutive increase in less than a year, according to the Official Gazette. The decision raised the cost of drinking...اقرأ المزيد
A new project in Egypt ‘Atenien Kefaya’ (Only two kids) aims to fight back at the country’s overpopulation through raising awareness of better family planning strategies. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail recently attended discussions over the project,...اقرأ المزيد
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail held a meeting with Italian Ambassador Giampaolo Cantini on Sunday in which they discussed several issues, including bilateral economic cooperation and the murder of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni. Ismail said that Egypt...اقرأ المزيد
In a press conference held at the cabinet’s headquarters, Deputy Minister of Health Tarek Tawfiq said that the number of births in 2017 fell by 100,000, from 2.6 million in 2016, to 2.5 million in 2017. Death rates, meanwhile, were 6.1 deaths per 1,000...اقرأ المزيد
