Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Thousands
of Egyptian riot police were deployed in central Cairo Thursday in an
attempt to quell demonstrations and disperse
opposition supporters, who took to the streets in support of
the judges’ demands for the independence of the
judiciary. Demonstrators were beaten up, streets and metro...
Date of source:
Extremists attack a priest in Wasīf farm and destroy some of possessions belonging to Copts,
raising
tensions between Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
A love story between a Muslim girl and a Christian
boy, leads
to a sectarian sedition in Qalإ«bīya and raises tensions in the governorate. The girl’s
family
went to the police station to file a report about the incident and to get the boy arrested.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
A robbery turns into a sectarian crisis inside Asyout
court.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Seventy
thousand Christian women issued divorce lawsuits, but the church refuses to
admit them, the author claims.
As a result, many Christians turn to civil marriage or live with a sense of guilt.
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.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
A
Christian teacher receives punishment for claims of offending the Prophet
Muhammad.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The Egyptian minister of interior, Major General Habīb al- ‘Ādlī, has submitted a memorandum to the Administrative Judicial Court, calling for the dismissal of the lawsuits filed by 150 Copts, who embraced Islam and afterwards decided to convert back to Christianity, and accusing the converts of...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Different
views of Christian thinkers about the emigrant Christians’ demands in Canada to prevent aid to
the Egyptian
government
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Last
week, a number of Christians demonstrated in front of State Security
Investigations building in Asyout because of
their problems with a society of businessmen.