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A person attacked a Jewish synagogue in downtown Cairo. The attack resulted in no damage and the culprit was arrested and proved to be suffering of drug addiction. It was also said that he was formerly a member of an “extremist group” in the 1980s.
Pope Shenouda dedicates a poem to the memory of the victims of Naj‘ Hammādī, and hopes for a fair court ruling.
Five Muslims are sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two Coptic men and the suspects in the case of killing a Coptic man in Dayrūt are declared innocent.  
Ranā Mamdūh reports on the lawsuit filed by Ra’ūf al-Najjār against President Mubārak.
The article sheds light on the meeting that took place between Nabīl Jibrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization and ‘Alī al-Dīn Hilāl, secretary of the Media Committee of the National Democratic Party.
The ‘citizens in one homeland’ group has published a document entitled ‘the Egyptian national church, future visions’ and has called on the church to stay out of the political sphere.
Bishop Bīshūy comments on current church affairs and announces that Bishop Yu’annis is still the pope’s private secretary
The death of the 82 year-old Grand Imām of the Azhar made the front page of most of the Egyptian press today. Prominent political and Islamic figures mourned Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī and the government’s reaction is questioned.
Sectarian tensions were raised in Beni Sweif when a young Coptic man wanted to convert to Islam to marry a Muslim young woman he loves. Copts gathered in front of the police station, where they believed that the security apparatus was hiding the young man to protect him.  
The annual report of the American Committee for Religious freedom placed Egypt on a watch list of states which violate religious freedoms. Some people and organizations confirmed the existence of religious discrimination in Egypt, others criticized the report as foreign interference.

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