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Visiting Nigerian imam and pastor in Cairo expound on their experiences in interfaith understanding The Arabic-language press carries many reports dealing with relations between the faiths and within the faiths.
Father Filopātīr calls for lawyers and priests attending his trial to view him as a victim of repressed freedom of expression, but no one in the history of church trials has been acquitted.
Offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. Ayad Mossad, chairman Stichting Arab-West Understanding, visited AWR to help and discuss the request for NGO status.
An in-depth criticism of the Coptic Church’s actions, which serve to widen the divide between Copts and Muslims in Egypt.
An investigation, carried out with help of AWR editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman, into the events surrounding the riots in Alexandria on Friday, October 21, 2005.
Report on the riots in Alexandria and the way Coptic and Christian media is reporting on this.
Many Muslims and Christians enter each other’s places of worship in order to condole friends over the death of relatives or to congratulate them on the occasions of weddings. The author states that the proximity between churches and mosques has no bearing on sectarian tensions.
Some might have expected the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) to pay gratitude to the Copts in the parliamentary elections, but in fact, only one Copt was nominated by the NDP in the Ghurbāl constituency in Alexandria.
The sectarian tensions in Alexandria are linked by the author to the electoral campaign between Copts and Muslims in Alexandria.
AWR is still dealing with the ongoing postponement of obtaining an NGO status. Recommendation of a comment showing that much of Muslim-Christian tensions are under the surface.

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