Date of source: Monday, January 5, 2004
A description of the history of the conflicts around the development of the convent of Patmos on the Cairo-Suez road. This text was written in May 2003 and presented to the Egyptian press center in the hope to get a response from Egyptian authorities. This response has not come.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Report of a visit to the location of the incident just hours after one Christian worker had been killed at the Patmos convent. The report describes the local situation, angry responses of local Christians and conflicting stories
Date of source: Monday, April 27, 1998
Rose el-Yousef describes the conflict between a Coptic Orthodox bishop and the people of a village in his diocese who wanted him to consecrate the son of the village priest as priest which the bishop refused. The Pope responded by taking this village and two other villages away from his diocese.