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15. The Church denies its intervention to "release" the five detainees on charges of "evangelization"
Date of source: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Najīb Jubrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, said that the five Coptic detainees are: ‘Izat Hakīm, ‘Isá Ibrāhīm, ‘Adil Shākir, Shirīf Ramsīs, and ‘Imād Sidīq. He added that the detainees are being tortured by the Libyan Preventive Security Unit and have to be released immediately. ...
8. The persecution of Copts in Egypt
Date of source: Tuesday, August 12, 1997
Fahmy Huweidy discusses responses he received to an article he wrote previously. He finds the Coptic associations in North America extreme, but many Copts in Egypt defend their behaviour.Huweidy was asked to write this time about the situation of the Copts in Egypt. Is there persecution or not?...
4. The prayer of the absent for the emigrant Copts
Date of source: Monday, July 7, 1997
Subtitles:- A meeting between the members of the Coptic Federation and Netanyahu in the U.S.A- The emigrant Copts ignored the mysterious federation and boycotted it.- Jewish financial and political support- The Egyptian cultural counselor in the U.S.A. calls emigrant Copts and clarifies the picture...
7. Letter to the editor of the Sunday Telegraph
Date of source: Tuesday, October 27, 1998
Finding out the truth is not easy but the extremely inaccurate and highly sensational way The Sunday Telegraph has, in its article of Sunday October 25, 1998, reported about Christians in Egypt ["Egyptian police ’crucify’ and rape Christians" by Christina Lamb] certainly doesn’t help the reader to...
10. A letter from the Coptic Catholic Church of Egypt to the American Catholic Church
Date of source: Wednesday, April 29, 1998
In a letter from the Catholic Church of Egypt the Church complains about Western media reports surrounding the issue of Coptic persecution in Egypt, as well as American intervention into the issue.
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