Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
A controversial article on the growing Islamization of Egypt and the effect this has on the Coptic community.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Jamāl As‘ad re-opens the thorny debate concerning the alleged abductions of Christian girls in Egypt, claiming that most girls are not kidnapped, but leave home for other reasons, and that stories of kidnap allow the family to avoid shame.
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
An encyclopedia entitled “Encyclopedia of Egypt’s Copts” claims that over 50 Christian girls have been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
The American Coptic Union has sent a letter to al-Maydān, commenting on a recent episode of the Dream TV program al-Mustaqbal [The Future] which tackled the subject of the alleged ‘abduction’ of Christian girls in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2003
The article of Abdallah Kamal in Rose el-Youssef denying that Christian girls in Egypt are kidnapped made a family in Alexandria contact Dr. Selim Naguib with yet another story. It is very likely that the use of the word ‘kidnap´ was also in this case not justified but the call for protection...
Date of source: Sunday, July 24, 2005
Pope Shenouda has been requested to intervene in the affair concerning the lies published by the journal al-Mahabba, which is under the supervision of Father Mitiās Nasr Manqarius. It is feared that the lies published by the journal and the non-substantiated accusations against Muslims and Islam...
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2006
A 19-year-old student at the Secretary Institute, Teresa Ghattās Kāmil Girgis, has been reported missing by her older brother, who accuses Mu‘tazz Muhammad Mutwallī of being behind his sister’s disappearance.
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2006
The Coptic faith is not going to grow stronger with the conversion of some Muslims to Christianity, and the same thing applies to Islam, notes ‘Alī Sālih.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
A look into the reasons behind the media storm over conversions of young women and girls from Islam to Christianity and vice versa
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2006
The author says that al-Maydān, an independent newspaper, is refuting allegations propagated by a Coptic web site, Coptichistory.org, owned by ‘Izzat Andarāwus, about the abduction of Coptic girls to force them to convert to Islam. The paper says that it interviewed a girl, Wafā’ Rā’fat ‘Adlī, who...