Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2000
Police forces succeeded in arresting four individuals, among whom is one shot in the foot, accused of participating in attacking Christians in Al-Koshh.
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2000
President Hosni Mubarak sent a greeting telegram to Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the missionary province of St. Mark at Christmas. President Mubarak sent similar greeting telegrams to emigrant Copts abroad wishing them health and happiness.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2000
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Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2000
Mustafa Abdel-Qader, Minister of Local Development visited the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Belyana. He was accompanied by Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Bakr, governor of Sohag, political and local authorities and Moslem religious officials. He met with Christian clergy and Bishop Wissa, bishop of Belyana and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2000
The Supreme State Security Agency continued yesterday broad investigations into the incidents of Al-Koshh in which twenty citizens died and thirty-three were injured. A team from the agency’s investigators traveled to the scene to question the defendants and the witnesses as well as inspecting the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2000
After the security forces acquired complete control, the conflict incidents in Al-Koshh village, Dar Al-Salam city and the nearby villages ceased. Life started going back to normal. Security authorities have started intense search campaigns to seize a number of runaway conflict instigators. ... In...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2000
Counselor Hisham Saraya, the general attorney of Al-Koshh Supreme State Security Agency ordered the detention of all the defendants in the Koshh incidents, who are 21 in number, for fifteen days for investigations. The Prosecution accused them of inciting violent and riotous incidents, inciting...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
Eight individuals were killed and nineteen injured in the riot incidents witnessed by Al-Koshh village and Dar Al-Salam city in Sohag yesterday evening.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
The Ministry of Interior announced the death of eight individuals in the incidents witnessed by Al-Koshh village in Sohag yesterday. The ministry’s press release said that some criminal and riot instigation elements have intentionally aggravated the reactions between Moslems and Christians that...
Date of source: Friday, December 3, 1999
The Coptic church assigned Bishop Benjamin of Minufia to receive the medallion of honor for Pope Kyrollos the Sixth [posthumously, the pope past away in 1971]. The bishop says that the relations between Christians and Moslems in Minufia are very special, to such an extent that some Copts build...