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38. Copts warn: Pope Shenouda is preparing Bishop Bishuy to succeed him although this would ignite sectarian sedition in Egypt and bloody conflicts between Copts
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2007
The author argues that the new newspaper that Bishop Bīshūy intends to issue will ignite crisis within Coptic circles. He believes that Bishop Bīshūy will use it as a platform to present himself as an alternative to Pope Shenouda.
33. A Muslim lecturer at the Institute of Arab Music accuses a Coptic professor of discriminating against him
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
A Muslim lecturer at the Institute of Arab Music accuses a ‘Coptic’ professor who supervises his master’s thesis of persecuting him because his father in-law was a Copt and converted to Islam, claiming that the professor has a history of religious discrimination against Muslims.
32. A Copt files a complaint before the general prosecutor, claiming that he was subject to religious discrimination
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
A Coptic employee at a post office in northern Cairo filed a complaint before the general prosecutor, accusing a Muslim responsible in the post office of persecuting him because he ran in one of the local elections for his constituency.
15. Priest of Shibin al-Kum’s church attacks Islam and questions the Qur’an on a CD distributed in Shubra
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2007
In a CD recently released in Shubra, Tadrus Yūsuf, priest of Shibīn al-Kūm’s church, has attacked Islam and questioned the Qur’ān.
22. Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to conduct a census
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007
Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to prepare statistics about the number of Copts in Egypt. While clergymen denied the news, they asserted that the official declared number of Copts was wrong and inaccurate.
30. A priest’s daughter resorts to a civil court to obtain a divorce
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2007
In an unprecedented step, a Coptic daughter of a priest resorted to the family court to ask for a divorce in a violation of the Coptic Orthodox Church tradition that divorce cases must first be approved by the church.
44. A church servant presses kidnap charge against Pope Shenouda III and his nephew
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007 to Friday, April 27, 2007
In a police report, a church servant accuses Pope Shenouda’s nephew of having an adulterous relationship with his wife. He also accuses the pope, in another report, of instructing a number of clergymen to kidnap his father to force him to withdraw the charges he directed against the pope’s nephew.
61. Church servant fired for reporting hymen restoration operations
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2007
The article is about a church servant who was fired for reporting that his wife had her hymen reconstructed with permission from the church.
23. A Muslim lawyer attempts to force his Coptic client to convert to Islam
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
A Coptic businesswoman has filed a complaint before the general prosecution against her Muslim lawyer, accusing him of handing over important documents to her disputants in order to force her to embrace Islām.
46. How do the Baha’is feel after being considered murtad by the State Commissioners Authority?
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
A number of Bahā’īs respond to the State Commissioner Authority’s report that considered them murtad. The article stresses how the Bahā’īs will appeal this decree in an attempt to gain equal status as Egyptian citizens.

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