Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 2009
The absence of a Christian girl from her home for more than five days enraged 200 Copts in Mallawī in Minia. Copts demonstrated in front of the state security headquarter calling for her to be returned.
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2005
In the beginning, the church had obtained a permission to build a service facility over a plot of 500 square meters it owned and surrounded with a mud brick wall. Part of the wall had fallen down due to several cracks and strong winds. The wall was not re-built due to rejection by the security...
Date of source: Monday, April 23, 2007
While the court found two brothers, Rāmiz and Bīshūy Na‘īm, innocent of bloody clashes that took place in Minia between two Coptic families, security authorities refused to release them in an effort to force their family to reconcile with the other family involved in the dispute.
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2006
Dispute over two qirats of land in the Upper Egyptian village of Dayr al-
Barshā, Minia governorate, ended up with six people killed and 12 others wounded.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Few months ago, a number of imprisoned Jihād leaders declared their renunciation of violence, shifting away from their literal approach to the interpretation of Islamic texts towards the socio-historical mode of exegesis that characterizes mainstream Islamic groups.
Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2005
Stabbing incidents targeting female Christian students in al-Minyā University cause panic and fear.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 7, 2000
In its session of yesterday, Sohag’s Criminal Court decided to postpone hearing the case of the killing of the two Christian young men who were killed in the village of Al-Kosheh in August 1998 to the session of May 7 in order to add to the evidence the log books for August and September 1998 of...