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44. Security precautions for Pope Shenouda’s visit to Minya
Date of source: Monday, May 26, 2008
Lutis Kiwān and Sāmī Jād al-Haq report on Pope Shenouda’s visit to Minyā.
20. Sentences insulting the prophet encourage sectarianism in Minya
Date of source: Monday, May 26, 2008
Lutis Kiwān and Sāmī Jād al-Haq report on sectarian incidents in Minyā University.
24. Dr. Mustafá al-Shak‘ah, accused of insulting Christianity: there is a church every 100 meters in Heliopolis, Copts control Egyptians’ fate and it is not our problem that they are a minority
Date of source: Monday, March 24, 2008
The author presents Dr. Mustafá al-Shak‘ah’s comments on being prosecuted for insulting Christianity, because of what he said in Sawt al-Ummah concerning Copts request to increase the number of churches.
30. The Catholic Church responds: We support the Sudanese refugees to obey Christ’s teaching and not to Christianize them
Date of source: Monday, March 3, 2008
Spokesman of the Catholic Church in Egypt, Father Rfīq Grech responded to the accusations of bribing Sudanese to convert to Christianity and explained that the Catholic Church offers aids on humanitarian bases regardless of people’s’ belonging, alluding to the numerous social services the Catholic...
29. A Sudanese public security officer: 'The Catholic Church in Ahmad Sa‘id Street exploits the Sudanese circumstances and attempts to Christianize them
Date of source: Monday, March 3, 2008
The tribal structure of the Sudanese community in Egypt and the passiveness of the Egyptian security forces are the main reasons behind the increasing crimes committed by the Sudanese. Moreover, the author claims that the Catholic Church shelters theses Sudanese and offers them bribes to convert to...
37. Copts are the watchword in the local councils elections in Minia
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2008
As the ruling National Democratic Party has enrolled a number of Copts in its lists for the upcoming local councils elections in the southern governorate of Minia, the author believes it is a political exploitation of Copts within the party’s campaign.
25. A police officer: I got married to a Christian woman and made her adopt Islam; State Security then forced me to divorce her because her mother is a key figure in the church…they told me this marriage would ignite strife
Date of source: Monday, December 17, 2007
An ex-police officer was reported as being dismissed because of his marriage to a former Christian woman who converted to Islam. He accused the church of contacting police authorities to force him to divorce his wife.
22. The Azhar shaykhs answer: Copts want to increase the number of churches to say that Egypt is a Coptic nation, despite the fact that Islam is its official religion
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2007
The following lines represent reactions of Muslim figures to the statistics that the Middle East Christian Association published about the numbers of mosques and churches in Egypt.
32. A scoop…we have an organizational map containing names and phone numbers prepared by the Church of Shubra al-Khimah to distribute Christian supervisors of the electoral commissions in order to control Coptic votes
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2007
Ṣawt al-Ummah has obtained serious documents which confirm that the Coptic Orthodox Church is exploiting every election to participate in political life, which raises doubts about the church’s true intentions.
2. Sectarian tension in Shubra
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007
A group of unknown youth allegedly distributed anti-Muslim pamphlets in the metro and under doors. The church denounces the behavior and a Muslim dā‘iyah.

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