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: Sunday, May 14, 2006
The author criticizes Professor Zaghloul al-Najār’s continued attacks on Copts,
underlining that his statements underestimate Christianity and threaten to fracture national unity in
Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
An article covering a seminar which took place at the Cairo
Center for
Human Rights on problems facing Copts in Egypt in which a number of famous Egyptian intellectuals
participated.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
The author
criticizes statements made by intellectual Dr. Silīm al-
‘Awā, in which he emphasizes that
Copts are dependent on foreign support in solving their
problems and that Copts’ conditions are very much
better than those of Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author writes about the current sectarian crisis between Muslims and Copts in Egyptian
society, listing a number of
factors that have caused these problems.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
Yousuf Sidhom talks to the youth
of the Mar Mīna church about the goal of Watani
newspaper, about the marginalization of Copts in
Egypt and about the role of women and youth in public
life.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author deals in this article with citizenship and Muslim-
Christian relations in
Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author continues his series of articles in Sawt
al-Azhar newspaper to reply to
Archpriest Zakarīya Butrus’s opinions about Islam in his appearances
on the Christian TV channel al
-Hayāt.
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
Nearly 255 people, including members of the
"banned”
Muslim Brotherhood, have been detained on charges of defying a security ban on public
demonstrations.