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Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The reader Nada Samah Shafan explains her being deceived by the way Mustafa Bakri reported the events of Kosheh. She asks him to have the courage to meet Priest Wissa and listen to him and she criticizes him for accusing Priest Wissa of treachery. Shafan explained that it was normal for Bishop...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
A summary of various newspaper reports on Al-Kosheh, accusing some newspapers of further fomenting communal strife by their biased and inaccurate reporting of the incidents, with 8 points put forward to prevent the repetition of such incidents again.
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Although 22 days have passed since the Al-Kosheh incidents, the efforts that have been exerted to return peace and security to the village have failed. Everybody is sad because of the death of a large number of Al-Kosheh villagers whether Muslim or Christian. Most of the shops are still closed,...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
The author gives in a lengthy article a background of Al-Kosheh, Muslim and Christian population, history, economy which all serve as a background to the killings. It is obvious from the article that the atmosphere was poisoned. Truth was mixed with fantasy and the fact Al-Kosheh became...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2000
A daily evening newspaper has published false lies in which it claimed that Bishop Wissa ordered Qummus Gibra’il to call Al-Ahali newspaper to give it photographs and video tapes about the incidents of Al-Kosheh. It said that the tape affects the relations between Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
We discussed with Bishop Bissenti the possibility of the presence of foreign fingers in the matter, about the American law of religious persecution - whether it had tempted the Copts to start problems from inside Egypt, and about the suggestion of a delegation from [the US] Congress visiting Egypt...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
Maybe that is the first time since the sectarian incidents of Al-Zawya Al-Hamraa that the church changes its religious speech language to a stricter one. Al-Kiraza magazine of the Coptic Church, whose editor-in-chief is Pope Shenouda III described the [dead of the] incidents of Al-Kosheh as Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2000
Bishop Wissa, the bishop of Balyana, Bardis and Dar El-Salaam led the Epiphany prayer in Abu Naqad Church in the archbishopric of Balyana for the Coptic Orthodox. The feast’s mass was held in all the churches of Al-Kosheh, Bardis, and Dar El-Salaam. In these masses, the priests preached to the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
... There were a good number of people with interests - inside and outside - messing with many things, and dealing with what happened in Al-Kosheh as spoils to be taken, even if they had to start more fires in it!
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The peacemaking committee has not completed its work in Al-Kosheh. They have a few major problems.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.