Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2008
Bishop Marqus, the head of the media committee at the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church declares that the percentage of conversion among Muslims of Shubrā al-Khaymah is one per hundred thousand Christians, hence, denying previous statistics.
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2008
The Citizens in One Homeland group discuss their hopes, goals and raison d’etre.
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2008
Al-Bāz discusses the increasing number of Christian converts to Islam in Egypt. He presents the church’s opinion and provides numbers, although their authenticity has been called into question.
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2008
Tāmir Salāh al-Dīn reports on declared and hidden clashes between Coptic members of the National Democratic Party [NDP] in the electoral campaigns of the upcoming elections for local councils in Alexandria in April, 2008.
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2008
The author writes that the Christian CTV satellite channel has been supporting the secretary of Pope Shenouda III, Bishop Yu’annis, and grooming him to succeed the pope.
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2008
Mayy Samīr reports on a new Dutch short film, directed by Geert Wilders, the leader of the conservative Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), who is known for his anti-Islamic attitudes. The film will concentrate on the holy Qur’ān.
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2008
The article discusses a new Iranian film that will depict the life of Christ from an Islamic perspective. The film is entitled ’God’s spirit,’ and is considered to be an Islamic response to Mel Gibson’s ’Passion of the Christ.’
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2008
The Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit that was filed by the Muslim convert to Christianity, Muhammad Hijāzī and has allowed Bahā’ī’s to leave the religion field empty or write "other" on their identity cards. The Egyptian press reported the two rulings and commented on the increasing...
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2008
Fādī Emile reports on a court ruling granting a Christian-born-covert-to-Islam’s father custody over his two daughters, both minors, under the pretense that their Christian mother takes them to church and feeds them what is forbidden under Islam.
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2008
Rāmī Rushdī reports on a story of an Egyptian engineer working in Canada, who resorted to the UN Human Rights Commission [http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chr.htm] to be granted custody over his four children after his wife converted to Christianity and disappeared with the children.