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Date of source: Tuesday, July 24, 2001
The crisis of Al-Nabaa turned into a human rights issue. Coptic organizations abroad expressed the opinion that Copts are a persecuted minority in Egypt. The website claims Copts demand Muslim females be allowed to marry Christians, preventing Christian women joining Islam, and broadcasting...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
The author believes that emigrant Copts want to cause a religious riot between the church and the government and to shake the stability of the nation, for the benefit of the Jewish lobby. He stressed that there is no religious persecution in Egypt and that the claims pertaining to Copts facing...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
A notification was introduced to the Prosecutor General against the Editor-in-Chief of Sout-Al-Umma because the paper published an article claiming that 70,000 Copt forged rape reports about their wives to get American nationality. The article aroused the anger of Copts and Pope Shenouda said he...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Coptic sources in California discovered that about seventy thousand young Coptic Egyptian men claimed that they were persecuted and submitted false reports stamped with fake stamps about their wives being raped to get access to work and obtain American citizenship.
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
[text taken from Watani website]
Many Egyptian intellectuals believe that the crisis of Al-Nabaa has placed before the society the reality of the Coptic grievances in Egypt and the imperative need to open the Coptic file and draw it wide open in complete transparency, with no hesitation. They are...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2001
President Mubarak said that Egyptian Copts and Jews were treated as Egyptian citizens and that everyone was free to worship God in his own way. He added that the government solved the problems of Copts as it solved the problems of any other denomination.
Date of source: Thursday, July 12, 2001
The American Evangelical church praised the religious freedom Christians enjoy in Egypt.
The Supreme Council of the Evangelical Church expressed the church’s worries about the harm the US Commission for International Religious Freedom may cause as a result of the investigations it makes in some...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2001
Thirty members of the American Congress signed a memorandum that advocates making one of the Egyptian local newspapers specialize in representing the rights of Egyptian Christians and highlighting their opinions regarding Egyptian internal affairs.
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2001
Al-Nabaa crisis makes the author believe that the Mossad is trying to bring destruction to Egypt’s one people. An Egyptian chat room was found to be established by a group of people one of whom is a Mossad agent. Another step was taken by people who claimed to be Egyptian intellectuals or...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
President Mubarak stressed that posts in Egypt were not distributed on a sectarian basis but on the basis of efficiency and merit and that there was no discrimination between Muslims and Copts. As for Al-Kosheh rulings, he stressed that there was no intervention in the rulings the court made....
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.