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Two jewelery shops owned by Copts were attacked within 48 hours of each other have broken out worries about possible further attacks in a plot to target Copts.
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The author reports on two recent assaults on jewelery shops owned by Copts in Cairo's al-Zaytūn and Alexandria's al-Llabbān districts that were reminiscent of Islamists' attacks on Copts' jewelery shops to finance terrorist activities that took place in the past.
Date of source: Sunday, June 1, 2008
Mīrā Mamdūh interviews Madyunis Dibeach, an artist whose engravings depict scenes from the Bible on the walls of the Monastery of St. Sam‘ān.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Wajīh Ramzī writes about St. Marqus, the apostle who introduced Christianity to Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Dr. Mamdūh Halīm writes about the history of the Sectarian Council in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, June 1, 2008
The following article discusses St. Mary’s Church, in Mostorod, where the Baby Jesus was said to have bathed in the water of a spring.
Date of source: Sunday, May 25, 2008
The article highlights the main findings of the 2008 UN human development report for Egypt, which is entitled, ’Social Contract in Egypt.’ The article comments that while education has improved there are still one in five Egyptians that live below the poverty line.
Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2008
Muhammad Abū al-Dahab reports on news that the Coptic girl of al-Mahallah, Amal Zakī Nasīm – who disappeared last August may be kept at St. Dimyana Monastery in Jamasah.
Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2008
This article deals with S. R. Leeder’s, ’Modern Sons of the Pharaohs’ which was recently translated by Ahmad Mahmūd. The book studies Copts’ conditions in Egypt before the 1919 Revolution and cites some incidents showing that the Muslim-Coptic relationship was cordial long before the revolution and...
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2008
This article deals with the hijāb crisis in the Franciscan Sisters School in Cairo. The father of student Nashwa Muhammad Jamīl has complained to the minister of education that the school forces students to not wear the hijāb. On the other hand, the school’s administration claims that Nashwa was...