Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
Sectarian tension erupted in Assuit’s peaceful village of Bahīj after Yūsuf Fathī Ni‘nā‘, a Copt, declared his Islam amidst strong opposition from his family.
Date of source: Sunday, September 24, 2006
The author emphasizes the importance of monastic life for the Coptic Orthodox Church. It describes its history and gives suggestions for boosting monastic life.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Thanks to the Congress ... pardon to the Egyptian People’s AssemblyAl-Dustūr newspaper published in its issue of August 27, 1997, an essay entitled "Crusaders have not put their swords down yet". The writer expressed his worry at an American economic boycott, or an American marine invasion of Egypt...
Date of source: Friday, July 25, 1997
Subtitles:Your writings tear the nation into pieces and stir up sectarian strife.The Taggamo party deserted its duty and turned into a sectarian party.I don’t defend Copts only. In fact I am defending all Egyptians.I refused to give an emigrant Copts a document that could be used to insinuate that...
Date of source: Monday, July 28, 1997
Subtitles:
Demonstration in front of the Egyptian consulate in New York; 16 Copts murdered per minute C.N.N.-TV; Egypt is a place of persecution. See how they treat monkeys and bears in the zoo. Mahmoud Wahba: Jews are using Copts to cover a disaster among them.
Rose al- Yūsuf, July 28, is also...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 1997
Dr. Milad Hanna, one of Egypt’s most prominent Christians, author of many books on Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt and columnist in Al-Ahram, is very dismayed about the proposed American religious freedom law. In an article in Al-Ahram of July 22 he writes that there are sectarian clashes which...
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Yousef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of Watani, responds to an article of Islamist author Fahmy Huweidy in Al-Ahram newspaper demanding that the Coptic church denounce all extremist movements who tarnish the image of Egypt on the international stage by focusing on negative aspects of Egypt, including...
Date of source: Friday, June 13, 1997
According to the paper, the Roman Catholic Church is worried about the great number of conversions to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
A People’s
Assembly member disavows the Muslim
Brotherhood’s slogan and denies having perpetrated violations against
Copts.
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006
In a symposium at the Monastery of Badābā in
Naj‘ Hammādī, the head of the Washington-based U.S. Copts Association, Michael
Munīr, described the head of the St. Athanasius Orthodox Eparchy of Egypt and the Middle East,
Bishop
Max Michel, as an "outsider" who incited Christians to disobey Pope...