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Utah Valley University’s Faith Forum invited Tito Momen, author of “My Name Used to Be Muhammad.” Momen shared his journey from Islam to Mormon-Christianity, and the hardship that befell him for his beliefs. He had been imprisoned in Egypt more than 25 years ago when he was baptized into The...
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Press review: Copts in Libya
The kidnapping of around 20 Egyptian Copts in Libya is grabbing much of the attention of Egyptian newspapers and media. It was stated during an interview with Khālid al-Shāmī from Al-Masrī Al-Yawm that the families of the workers who protested in front of the UN office...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Dutch lawyer, André Seebregts filed on behalf of four Dutch citizens of Egyptian origin, a case on Thursday, September 18 to the Dutch general prosecution against Egyptian Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim [Muhammad Ibrahīm], former President ‘Adly Mansour and former Prime Minister Hazem El-...
Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 2014
Following often emotional public discussions about the pro-Isis demonstration in The Hague and anti-Islam demonstrations, the Cairo Coalition (in Dutch: Cairo Overleg), representatives of Dutch churches, Muslim and Jewish religious organizations, issued a Dutch which I have translated for Arab-...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 13, 2014
[Background: Trouw, an important and influential daily newspaper in the Netherlands, published on August 4, an opinion article of the chairmen of the youth organizations of three political parties; the CU (Christian Union), SGP (Reformed Political Party) and CDA (Christian Democratic Party), which...
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2013
I have read the July 22 and October 22 interviews with Dr. Amr Darrag and find his answers to be typical of the Muslim Brotherhood, who present themselves as victims without indications that they are willing to acknowledge failures on their side.
Date of source: Saturday, May 25, 2013
AWR's intern Myles Ormerod reviewed articles of incidents that were not covered in Egyptian newspapers, but came in online foreign media on May 25, 2013, tackling Muslim-Christians relations and/or Coptic issues.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Below is the full texts of foreign newspapers reports about clashes occurred at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
THE scenes shown Sunday night on Egyptian television channels from Abbesseya Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, epitomise what many Egyptians view as a nightmare: a crowd of Muslims attacking the biggest church in the country with rocks and Molotov cocktails, as the police...
Date of source: Monday, April 8, 2013
In a Jesuit-run magazine in 1957, Rev. J.J.W. Murphy recalled a meeting with a Christian priest in Egypt ten years prior. "I was surprised then at what he told me of Muslim hostility to Christianity and of the possibility that persecution would break out," Murphy wrote. "Now I know that his...