Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2010
This article summarizes the incident of Nag Hammadi on Christmas Eve, and the charges issued against the assailants. The three men who are charged with the shooting will go on trial on the 13th of February for a number of charges, a single one warranting the death sentence. The article also...
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 2010
Le Figaro reports on Najc Hammādī and places these attacks in a context of an extended period of anti-Coptic sentiment in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 2010
Watani International reporter Nader Shukry heads to Naj‘ Hammādī and gets caught up in the rioting which followed the shooting of six Copts. Shukry includes the change in the tone of Bishop Kyrillos statements which followed the visit to the bisphoric by Qena governor Magdi Ayyub, and also suggests...
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 2009
A Muslim man refused to allow the opening of a door in a mosque opposite his home. The action angered the villagers who set fire in his home.
Date of source: Thursday, November 5, 2009
The European Court of Human Rights has banned crucifixes in Italian schools.
Date of source: Sunday, July 5, 2009
al-Faris writes of the isolation of Copts in Society, the need for more churches, and the controversial 'Master Yacoub'.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Ibrāhīm ‘īssá writes about how religion is manipulated for political purposes in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, September 14, 2009
Vice president of the National Council for Human Rights criticizes the current superficial religiosity in the Islamic countries and considered calls to abolish the Sharī‘ah to be a kind of madness.
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2009
‘Amr al- Shūbakī discusses the reasons behind the rise of sectarian tension in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, June 20, 2009
Ramzī Zaqlamah bemoans the sectarian nature of life in Egypt. He calls on the government to treat the troubles spreading in the Egyptian society before it is too late.