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 A wife and her three children disappeared in ambiguous incidents.  The author talks about the disappearance of a mother and her three children from the 10th of Ramadan city. The author states that their family thought that they became Muslims, but after asking the Azhar, they discovered nothing....
 Part 2 of 2 (Continuing the analytical remarks on the feelings of unease that certain issues engender among the Copts):    
Copts in the Egyptian media 42 Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to the weekly, State-owned al-Mussawar and the file it recently published on “Do Copts hate the July Revolution?” In his article entitled, “Copts under Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir,” Midhat Bishāy attempted to cite both the...
Muftī of the Republic Sheikh ‘Alī Jum’ah contributed an article to The New York Times on April 3 in which he commented on the political situation in post-revolution Egypt. Jum’ah highlighted the role of religion in political life. According to Jum’ah, Egypt's religious tradition is anchored in a...
The salafīs do not seem ready to tolerate anyone who might question their ideas. They seem to be determined to take the law into their own hands to compel moderate Muslims and non-Muslims to feign appreciation for their dogmatic ideas.
This is the sixth year in a row that I write, following the conclusion of the annual parliamentary round, to comment on the failure of the Parliament to pass the unified law for places of worship. The lack of such a law, as any casual observer can tell, has been behind countless incidents of...
Bishop Aghabius of Dayr Mawās comments on the location of Kāmīliyah Shihātah, the wife of the priest Tidawous.    
Following his dispute with the governorate of Minia over the construction of a new Cathedral, Bishop Aghathon declined to attend a meeting called for by the governor and renewed his threat to stage a protest in front of 'Abāsīyah Cathedral in Cairo. He also confirmed that his steps are supported by...
Egyptian political prisoners in Israeli jails have contacted the Muslim Brotherhood at home, asking for their help to have them released. In a message that found its way to the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees' Affairs and was published by the Ma'an news agency Saturday, the Egyptian prisoners...
Part 1 of 2 In Egypt, the Copts are being denied access to certain high positions, deprived from the freedom to build new churches, and suffering from increasing suffocating fanaticism from all directions.      

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