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16. Women and Copts, between citizenship and democracy
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2007
Copts have well-known problems that will be undoubtedly resolved through adopting the principles of citizenship and democracy.
15. National, not sectarian, sedition
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2004
On June 17, 1981 violence erupted between Muslims and Christians in the Cairo working class district of al-Zawīya al-Hamrā? in which at least 20 people were killed and hundreds others injured, giving reason enough for late President Anwar al-Sādāt to launch the notorious September 1981 detentions...
29. Women and Copts…between citizenship and democracy
Date of source: Thursday, January 11, 2007
In media it is now usual to criticize the racial discrimination culture and to suggest solutions by sympathizing with women by calling them “half of the society” and with Copts who are called “the other part of the nation tissue” without realizing that these names emphasize separation and division.
26. Pictures of Jesus Christ and the Last Supper cause a conflict in the Coptic Church
Date of source: Saturday, June 7, 2003 to Friday, June 13, 2003
Many of the traditional icons of the Orthodox Church representing Jesus Christ crucified and the Last Supper have been recently changed. New crucifixion icons show Jesus Christ with nails in his wrists not hands. Judas no longer appears in the new Last Supper icons. The author comments on the...
34. The Coptic language is the way to a Christian ghetto
Date of source: Saturday, December 24, 2005 to Friday, December 30, 2005
The calls to revive the Coptic language are opposed by those who fear that this may cause the total social isolation of the Copts inside Egyptian society.
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