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: Saturday, May 15, 2010
This article details the celebrations of the “Ascension Night,” where nearly 2 million Muslims and Christians participated.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Date of source: Sunday, April 11, 2010
The opening of the Darfur Reconstruction Conference in March 2010 recalled Egyptian-Sudanese Archpriest Filotheus Farag of al-Shaheedein. Filotheus preaches coexistence, acceptance, and love of all people, asserting it is God’s will to respect all cultures and he is renowned...
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 2010
This article reports on the current situation in ‘Izbat Bushrá, which witnessed two sectarian incidents in 2008 and 2009. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights accuses the Security of inducing the incidents.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Over four days this week Al-Misrī al-Yawm published on four days this week a journey in the tracesing of the Holy Family’s journey in Egypt from the Delta to Asyut. The first episode depicting the the journey in Sinai was published last week.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
CIDT’s Jayson Casper discusses the role of the difficulties surrounding church building in perpetuating interreligious conflict in Egypt, referring to the example set by Fr. Yu’annis.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Two AWR interns investigate the news coverage of a dispute that took place in al-Tayyibah village, Minia. They analyzed the press reports of the incident and then look at the reconciliation sessions that took place in the wake of the conflict.