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16. Marsa Matrouh Copts are the victims of an outrageous attack
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 2010
This article describes in detail the sectarian event that took place for nearly a full day in Marsa Matrouh. Coptic Christians, as well as their property, was attached in a riot in Matrouh on the 12th of March. Homes and cars were burned, as well as many Copts were held prisoner in a Charity house...
14. Basing on a rumor
Date of source: Sunday, May 3, 2009
Last week a group from Matrouh town council started to demolish a building owned by the Holy Virgin Church in Matrouh.
13. 1300 Copts protest about the knocking down of a house
Date of source: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The authorities have destroyed a building that allegedly violated its license. Christians claim the building was destroyed following rumors that it was going to be turned into a church.
33. St Marina’s gets its land (Original in English. Not edited by AWR)
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 2008
The New Urban Communities Authority and the Matrouh governorate have been disputing a piece of church land where a road was paved for quite some time. Finally the land has been allocated to the church.
21. Matruh governor allocates 2,000 meters to el-Alamein Church, but it is not the land he took away from the church itself
Date of source: Saturday, July 12, 2008
A settlement of the problem of el-Alamein between the church and the Matrūh governorate was achieved.
40. Matrūh governor and the head of al-Hamam City Council ignite sectarian sedition after seizing the land of the former president of the stock exchange, mistreating pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary and using discriminating language
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2007
A quarrel over a 500-acre plot of land among former President of the Stock Exchange Shuhdī ‘Āzir, and the head of al-Hamām City Council ‘Abd al-Allāh Sālim and the governor of Matrūḥ ignited signs of sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians.
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