Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
Copts in al-Muqattam protested against the
illegitimate arrests of four priests and relatives
of a Christian girl who converted to Islam and married a
Muslim.
Date of source: Monday, August 21, 2006
Nearly 100 Copts from one
extended family were displaced from
their homes in the Upper Egyptian village of Hijāzah, Qinā
governorate, after a fight with a
neighboring Muslim family, Shīrīn Rabī‘ says.
Date of source: Monday, August 7, 2006
Families of eight Christian girls, who disappeared suddenly, talked to Sawt al-Umah, saying that their daughters might have converted to Islām and married Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
An
interview with Michael Munīr,
member of the Republican Party in the U.S. and controversial Coptic
activist who is visiting Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
A
Christian teacher receives punishment for claims of offending the Prophet
Muhammad.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Christians in Egypt have rejected a document
that is alleged by
some to allow missionary work in Egypt, arguing that it will increase tension between Muslims
and Copts.
AWR has already published Shaykh al-Zifzāf’s denial fo these claims, with a link
to the
full text of the document.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Sawt al-Umma exclusively publishes a copy of a
Bahā’ī marriage
certificate, issued in 1952 between Christian Fathī Tādrus
‘Abd al-Masīh, 26, and
Muslim Qudsīya Husayn Rouhī, 21, after they both converted
to Bahā’ism.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Sectarian sedition has ripped through al-Fāw village, al-Qinā governorate,
after news spread that Coptic villagers were on their way to reestablish the Virgin Mary Charity, affiliated
to the
Ministry of Social Solidarity.
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Coptic intellectuals are divided over the step taken by Coptic activists in the West to discuss the Coptic file before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Some believe that such step is the only possible action in order to attract the government’s attention to the problems of Copts,...
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
A symposium on "the secularization of the state," organized under the aegis of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, has turned into a Coptic-Muslim Brotherhood debate on canceling the second article of the Egyptian constitution, which makes Islam the state religion, and Islamic sharī‘a the...