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Date of source: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr carries a page three headline reading: "Lawyer of Samallūt [Train] Incident Injured: Accused an Extremist, Committed Crime of own Volition."
The text says Ihab Ramzī, the lawyer for those injured in the Samallūt train shooting, announced that the accused, ‘Amir ‘Ashūr ‘Abd al-Zahir,...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Last Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer allegedly shot six Coptic Christians who were travelling on a train in Samallūt, a small town in the southern Egyptian province of Minya. An elderly man died in the attack.
While some government officials have been quoted in various reports as...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
This article reports on various sources, all denying that policeman ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, who allegedly shot dead a Copt and injured five others on a train, had any mental problems. According to Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufīd Shihāb this rules out any “sectarian motives behind the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
On Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer reportedly opened fire on a train in the southern province of Minya, killing one Christian and injuring 5 others. Today's Egyptian newspapers mostly emphasized that the assailant was allegedly mentally unstable and that his motives were not...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
This Egyptian Gazette article covers the issue of the train shooting in Minya on Tuesday night. Prosecutors have detained the 23-year old policeman who allegedly opened fire while on a Cairo-bound train, killing a 71-year-old Copt, while wounding his wife and four others, all of whom are Christian...
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2010
After the end of the priest’s wife crisis, Miny witnesses a new crisis after more than 500 Copts demonstrated in Maghaghah bishopric protesting against the governor’s decision to suspend the license of the building of a new bishopric.
Bishop Aghathoun asserts that Copts will protest until they get...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sectarian tension has escalated to a frightening extent and the state does not deal seriously with the issue and does not enforce the role of law.
Bells rang in Dīr Abū Nawwās celebrating the return of Kāmīliyā Shihātah, the priest’s wife who was returned to her husband by force, as though they...
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2010
A crisis broke out yesterday between the Minya governorate and the Maghāghah bishopric because of the disagreement over the licenses to build the new bishopric. Maghāghah Copts organized a peaceful demonstration protesting against suspending the licenses and threatened to escalate the issue to Pope...
Date of source: Monday, November 22, 2010
The Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria was officially made a member of the Council of Cardinals by Vatican Pope Benedict XVI yesterday, making him the third Egyptian member of the council in history. In a statement, Bishop Antonius Najīb said that religious discrimination in Egypt is non-...
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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.