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Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Expatriate Copts are merging successfully into their new societies. I regularly receive information about the impressive success of expatriate Copts everywhere. I am also very glad about the success of the second generation of Copts.
Most of the Coptic success abroad, usually in public and...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Expatriate Copts usually fell among one of two groups: a majority who left Egypt in quest of a better life abroad, and a minority who left to escape bitter instances—usually with the authorities—at home. A ‘silent majority’ and a ‘loud-voiced minority’ then emerged and came to characterize the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Egyptian media and political leaders paying attention to Coptic Christmas.
Watani’s Editor-in-chief Yusuf Sidhom’s discusses the term ’ persecution’ in describing the position of Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2004
Almost two weeks ago Anthony Weiner, a member of the American Congress, submitted a
draft of an urgent project in which he requests that American military assistance to Egypt and
all forms of economic cooperation between the countries be halted unless the issue of Copts is
dealt with.
The...
Date of source: Monday, February 23, 2004
The US
wants to make use of all means of pressure on the Arab region and the Islamic world as a step to
prepare to control and re-divide the area. This is what is going on now. Coptic expatriates are
one of these means of pressure.
Now, the American administration is using the Coptic...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Expatriate Copts rejected and condemned what some newspapers published as a message from the National Coptic Society to Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. The message requested Sharon’s intervention to solve the Coptic problem in Egypt. This came in a statement to al-Ahālī presented by 14 Coptic...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
The Anglican General Synod of Australia accepted a resolution speaking about persecution of Christians in Egypt. The resolution was accepted without consulting the Anglican bishop in Cairo or Anglican experts in England who are well acquainted with the church in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
There had been an aggressive campaign in the Egyptian press in general accusing emigrant Copts of being spies for America and western countries. The World Center for Human Rights calls for all those in charge to stop all this type of news that damages social unity and stabilityAccording to a press...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2001
The author finds it strange that a distinction is always made between emigrant Copts and Egyptian emigrants. They are described as betrayers, although their comments on the affairs of Egypt are a sign that they still believe they are Egyptians. The author believes that Egypt can benefit from its...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Sout Al-Umma published an article about raping 400,000 Christian girls and forcing them to convert to Islam, with the aim of disclosing the lies of emigrant Copts. No one objected although the number was huge. The paper thought that the news about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get...
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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.