Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
An Assiut security court began on 19 October to hear charges against the "Deirut organization" four alleged Islamist militants accused of murdering six policemen and Coptic Christian civilians and attempting murder several others over the past few years.
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 1999
There is a new wave of attacks in the form of advertisements in western media from emigrant Copts. For the thousandth time, emigrant Copts continue their cheap trials to destroy the national unity by claiming that Egypt has become a place for sectarianism and that having a tattoo of a cross or...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 12, 1999
Did the days of violence against Christians in Egypt return? In only two months time three Coptic Orthodox priests had been attacked. One of them was killed. So many attacks in such a short period have not happened in a long time. Copts abroad ring the alarm but Copts inside Egypt find that...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 6, 1999
The International Coptic Federation sounds the alarm after attacks on three priests in Egypt. They claim it is proof for "a new wave of violence against Christian clergy in Egypt."
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
This Freedom from Religious Persecution Act gives America the right to interfere in diplomatic ways to the concerned governments and if a government does not respond, it is the right of the U.S. administration to impose any sanctions that it (the U.S.) sees fit. The author stresses that several...
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 1999
The Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which criticizes several Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, is the result of the Religious Freedom Act sponsored by right-wing members of the US Congress in 1998 in what some observers say was a capitulation to fundamentalist Christians...
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 1999
The paper claims father Besada Iscaros was shot at by a mentally disturbed person. Priests from Dairut, however, told the RNSAW that they believe the man was an ’Islamic fundamentalist’ who had attacked the priest only because he was a priest.
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
The United States released its first annual report on religious freedom worldwide on Thursday (September 9, 1999)... Regarding Egypt, the report admitted that the non-Muslim Christian minority generally practice[s its] rituals without any interference, but it claimed that there [is] some societal...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 1999
The United States produced the first annual report about religious freedom in the world. The report claimed that there is some discrimination in society and government against the Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
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