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1. Call for Justice: Investigation into the New Year's Coptic Church Massacre 
يعرب أهالي القتلى والمصابين وكثيرون من المصريين عن استيائهم لمرور أكثر من تسع شهور على حادث التفجير المأساوي الذي وقع أمام كنيسة القديسين في الاسكندرية بعد مرور دقائق قليلة من بدء العام الميلادي الجديد 2011، مما اسفر عن مقتل 21 وأصابة أكثر من مائة من المصلين.
ويُخشى من عدم وجود رغبة واضحة لدى السلطات المعنية في اتخاذ اي اجراء قانوني لضبط الجناة وتقديمهم للمحاسبة امام القضاء، حيث أن هذا التجاهل من شأنه الاسهام في زيادة الهجمات ضد الاقباط.
ان تحديد المسئولين عن هذه الجريمة النكراء، وتقديمهم للعدالة امام القضاء سيضع حداً للمعاناة اليومية لأسر الضحايا. مما يتعين أن تأخذ العدالة مجراها فوراً وبدون تأخير. لذلك نرفع التماسنا التالي لكم طالبين تحقيق العدالة لضحايا كنيسة القديسين بالاسكندرية الابرياء:
Minutes into 2011 a terrorist attack culminating in an explosion outside the Two Saints Church in Alexandria resulted in the loss of 21 lives and the severe injury of more than 100 worshippers. The Families of the victims and many Egyptians wish to express their disillusionment in that over 9 months have passed since this tragic event without prosecution or serious investigation of this hideous crime.
There is a growing feeling that the apparent unwillingness to make any concerted attempts to bring those responsible to justice could be a major contributing factor in the sudden increase attacks against Copts.
Only justice can end the daily suffering and anguish of the families, and this must be seen to be done promptly and with undue delay.
Accordingly we call for:
The Pope beatified 233 "martyrs" of the Spanish Civil War in the biggest mass beatification ceremony in the history of the Catholic church, this March 2001.
This brings to 471 the number of Spanish victims of the 1936-39 civil war already beatified. All were allied towards Franco's Fascists against the democratically elected Spanish republican forces.
The Vatican agreed last year to beatify an astonishing 10,000 Spaniards as "martyrs of the faith, victims of hatred against the church". None was among the tens of thousands of Franco's victims during the Civil, or of mass executions during his 40-year dictatorship. Nor were there any honouring of the many religious people who died defending the republic against Franco's Fascists.
FC Barcelona has for much of its history has seen as more than just a symbol for anti-fascists, and freedom loving people everywhere. However the award of honoury lifetime membership of the club to the current Pope in 1980, has sacrificed for many our hopes and dreams of our club. The latest act of beatification of Fascists, leaves us with no option but to request the removal of the Pope from our members books. His name remaining amonst many honourable people, past and present is a disgrace for the thousands of Barcelona fans who supported the Republic, and later Catalunya in the face of massive oppression on behalf of Franco. How many of our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters were punished greatly by the regime now held in such esteem by the Catholic Church.
Dont ever ever forget your history FC Barcelona.