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Sidhum continues his series of articles that look at instances of persecution against Copts in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya. In this article he investigates the case of a church in the village of Safaniya in Adawa which has no toilets and the case of Nazlet Ramadan, also in Adawa, which...
Two AWR interns investigate the news coverage of a dispute that took place in al-Tayyibah village, Minia. They analyzed the press reports of the incident and then look at the reconciliation sessions that took place in the wake of the conflict.
40 detained in Minia governorate sectarian strife
A church catches fire in a village in Upper Egypt. The author explores the stories surrounding this fire.
In his article Yūsuf Sidhom differentiates between the sectarian incidents that take place between Muslims and Copts and real cases of persecution that affect masses of Copts. He argues that the problems for Copts in the governorate of Minya are particularly bad and states that the file on them...
The rights pertaining to houses of worship are one of the core areas of conflict between Muslims and Christians in Egypt and are a source of grievance for many Christians. Sidhum explains the cases of two such cases involving Christians’ legal rights in detail in this article, one from 1923 and the...
On the difficulties encountered by Copts seeking to pray in villages that do not have a proper church
Sidhom comments on the Parliament’s refusal to discuss a unified law on building places of worship for the fifth year in a row.
The AWR team returned to Beni Suef to continue investigations about Izbat Bushrá. Their efforts to visit the village, however, were rebuffed by concerns expressed by the church about disturbing the volatile situation there. Article full text: The second attempt by the AWR team to visit ‘Izbat...
al-Faris writes of the isolation of Copts in Society, the need for more churches, and the controversial 'Master Yacoub'.

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