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17. Families of eight absent girls head for presidency to find their daughters
Date of source: Monday, August 7, 2006
Families of eight Christian girls, who disappeared suddenly, talked to Sawt al-Umah, saying that their daughters might have converted to Islām and married Muslims.
36. Michael Munir to Sawt al-Ummah, “If we want to fix a bathroom in a church we have to take the permission of the State Security”
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
An interview with Michael Munīr, member of the Republican Party in the U.S. and controversial Coptic activist who is visiting Egypt.
45. Al-‘Ayyat witnesses another sectarian sedition: A priest’s car destroyed and possessions of Copts’ burnt on Wasif farm
Date of source:
Extremists attack a priest in Wasīf farm and destroy some of possessions belonging to Copts, raising tensions between Muslims and Christians.
61. Government appeals courts ruling in favor of Baha’is
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
The Egyptian government is appealing a court ruling in favor of recognizing the Bahā’ī faith. Islamic clerics deem confessors of this religion apostates. Suspicious over Bahā’īs being agents of Zionist interests in Egypt are raised.
54. Sectarianism at a high school in Ma‘adi
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
A Christian teacher receives punishment for claims of offending the Prophet Muhammad.
5. "We don’t want more clashes" Christians refuse missionary works
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Christians in Egypt have rejected a document that is alleged by some to allow missionary work in Egypt, arguing that it will increase tension between Muslims and Copts. AWR has already published Shaykh al-Zifzāf’s denial fo these claims, with a link to the full text of the document.
76. Exclusive: Sawt al-Umma publishes marriage certificate of Christian man and Muslim women who converted to Baha’i faith
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Sawt al-Umma exclusively publishes a copy of a Bahā’ī marriage certificate, issued in 1952 between Christian Fathī Tādrus ‘Abd al-Masīh, 26, and Muslim Qudsīya Husayn Rouhī, 21, after they both converted to Bahā’ism.
43. Villagers cut off electricity, phone lines to Christian houses, set fire to three stores
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Sectarian sedition has ripped through al-Fāw village, al-Qinā governorate, after news spread that Coptic villagers were on their way to reestablish the Virgin Mary Charity, affiliated to the Ministry of Social Solidarity.
57. Coptic intellectuals: the dictatorship of the regime against Egyptians are behind discussing the Coptic file in the UN
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Coptic intellectuals are divided over the step taken by Coptic activists in the West to discuss the Coptic file before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Some believe that such step is the only possible action in order to attract the government’s attention to the problems of Copts,...
22. Coptic-Muslim Brotherhood debate applying Islamic shari‘a. Muslim Brotherhood against secular state, seeks a shari‘a-governed state. Copts: Why should we pray in a whisper, deprived of the right to build churches, be gove
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
A symposium on "the secularization of the state," organized under the aegis of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, has turned into a Coptic-Muslim Brotherhood debate on canceling the second article of the Egyptian constitution, which makes Islam the state religion, and Islamic sharī‘a the...

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