Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2010
Copts in the Egyptian media 42
Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to the weekly, State-owned al-Mussawar and the file it recently published on “Do Copts hate the July Revolution?” In his article entitled, “Copts under Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir,” Midhat Bishāy attempted to cite both the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2011
AWR obtained a paper that was distributed on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 during protests by salafists in front of the Council of State, the Supreme Administrative court, demanding the release of Kāmīliyā Shihātah, a Christian woman who reportedly converted to Islam and was detained inside a church.
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Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Bishop Aghabius of Dayr Mawās comments on the location of Kāmīliyah Shihātah, the wife of the priest Tidawous.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The author believes that church practices some forms of blackmail against the state to achieve some needs.
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2010
Coptic Pope Shenouda III received an official notice sent by Egyptian lawyer Nabīh al-Wahsh.
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 2010
In this article the author criticizes controlling a number of Coptic minds and make it think in a sectarian way. For example, the claims by Copts that, Kamilīyah Shihātah, Dayr Mawās priest's wife, was kidnapped.
On the other hand the author believes that this way of thinking is so dangerous on the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Supreme Administrative Court postponed Kāmīliyā Shihātah's case, intended to uncover the reasons behind her disappearance, to April 19, 2011.
Tens of salafists made a peaceful protest in front of the State Council demanding the release of Kāmīliyā.
They asserted that the protest is peaceful,...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Salafīs demonstrated in front of the State Council on March 29, while a lawsuit, accusing the Church of kidnapping Kāmīliyā Shihātah after she converted to Islam, was reviewed by the Administrative Court.
The Coptic Church denies that Kāmīliyā Shihātah has ever converted to Islam or has been...
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Al-Jamā'ah Islāmīyah (Islamic Group) has rallied ranks with the Copts to confront the Salafists or Wahabīs in an attempt to end a wave of Fitnah Ṭā’ifīyah started by former President Anwar al-Sadāt and pursued by the deposed President Husnī Mubārak.
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Sheikh Abū Yahyá, a person Sawt al-Ummah claims to have first sparked the Kāmilyā Shihātah issue, said that the salafists call for releasing Kāmilyā and others and would not go home without having their requests attained.