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Date of source: Tuesday, May 20, 2014
In response to widespread rumors that the Minya Diocese is playing a role in campaigning for a certain candidate [name not mentioned], it has issued a statement rejecting this.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Unknown assailants opened fire on the car Bishop Makarios in Minya while he going to visit the village of Sirū center in Abu Qurqās to give condolences to a Christian family there. On its part, the Coptic Orthodox Church issued a statement confirming that Bishop Makarios is unhurt (Ashraf Kamāl, al...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 10, 2013
A Coptic accountant of Nasser Social Bank has been kidnapped in Matāy in al-Minya governorate. The kidnappers intercepted his car and threatened him with firearms. A 33-year-old employee and a Kūm-Matāy village resident, Osama Muhībb Jonan Josef, has been reported kidnapped. His brother, 26,...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
General Bishop Makarius of al-Minya and Abū Qurqās on Wednesday (June 27) called in an official statement in the name of the Copts of al-Minya for avoiding jumping to conclusions about the new president and for giving him enough time to arrange his ideas.
“The presidential election results were...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
General Bishop Makarius of al-Minya and Abū Qurqās on Wednesday (June 27) called in an official statement in the name of the Copts of al-Minya for avoiding jumping to conclusions about the new president and for giving him enough time to arrange his ideas.
“The presidential election results were...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The village of al-Jamhūd in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minyā has seen a tense day after a Coptic young man converted to Islam. Several local residents said 32-year-old Ayman Yūsuf ‘Ayyād’s family forced him into the house of his mother’s family and tried to bring him to reverse his...
Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2012
A Copt’s conversion to Islam in al-‘Adawah town, the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya, sparked unrest between Muslim and Christians on Sunday (May 13).
Dozens of members of Islamist groups gathered outside the ‘Adawah police station to protect 32-year-old man Ayman Yūsuf Sa’d from his...
Date of source: Friday, January 4, 2013
A further case of blackmailing Copts was published in Al-Sabāh: Tharwat Malik Barsūm, owner of a tourist resort in al-Minya governorate, Upper Egypt, filed a complaint against persons (identity undisclosed) blackmailing and asking him to pay a ransom of 500 thousand Egyptian Pounds or his resort...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2013
The inhabitants of the city Dayr Mawwās and the village of Diljā stood up against the supporters of the deposed former president, Morsi, blocking them from storming into and attacking the churches of Virgin Mary and Saint Abram (Ibrā’ām), during Saturday night (July 27) demonstrations. Amjad ‘Izzat...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Al-Minya security forces were unable to contain fitnah tā'ifīyah in one of the villages in Abū Qurqās yesterday (June 3, 2013), after officials were found to be working at one of the local churches without a permit (Ashraf Kamāl, al-Wafd, Jun. 4, p. 12). Read original text in Arabic.
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.