Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 2004
The state is responsible for allocating and planning cemeteries for all sectors of Egyptians. It does well indeed by planning neighboring cemeteries for both Muslims and Copts. It makes sense that, if the live close to one another, there can be no sensitivity in their being buried near one another...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
The prominent preacher Dr. Al-Ahmadi Abu Al-Nour, former Egyptian Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments] stressed that Muslims are the enemies of no one and that over the course of history Muslims have maintained a policy of co-existence and dialogue with ‘others’ [non-Muslims]. Abu Al-Nour said...
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 2004
More than once over the past 10 months did I write about on the ridiculous errors committed by civil register personnel and cheekily attributed to ‘computer error’. The problem has recently grown since the government began issuing computerized personal status papers. Quite a few Copts have...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2004
It is well known that the West [the US and European countries] has recently proposed a project to reform Arab and Islamic countries because those countries supposedly do not apply the principles of democracy. We simply have to read our history and hold on to our religion - only then would we become...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
The visit of the American Commission on Religious Freedom to Egypt is this time done under the pretext of investigating the conditions of Baha’is, Jehovah Witnesses and the banned group of the Muslim Brotherhood. The American Commission claims that these groups are persecuted. Remarkably strange,...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
An extended summary of seven articles in a Dutch daily newspaper describing an average Christian family in a Muslim society. Two family members and the editor of AWR responded to the text. The article gives a good description of what it is to be an average Christian in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
Yousuf Sidhum mentions cases of a number of Copts who experienced some troubles with issuing their computerized ID documents when such documents were issued with incorrect information—the applicants being listed as Muslims instead of their actual Christian identity.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Serious problems of discrimination, fanaticism and human rights violations against religious minorities and some non-pious Muslims are still marring Egypt, according to the US International Religious Freedoms Commission report about Egypt for the year 2005.
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2002
Dr. Sufi Abu Taleb, the former president of the People’s Assembly, clarifies the realities and advantages of Islam. He said that Islam has nothing to do with religious dogmatism and discrimination because it recognizes the other religions as valid. He added that it is unfair for Western researchers...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2002
Dr. Nabil Luka Bebawi believes that President Mubarak is the master of national unity in Egypt and that the problems of Copts are domestic problems that should be solved internally without any foreign intervention. He said that there is no religious persecution in Egypt as some people claim.