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    The Egyptian Minister of Endowments says that a new law regulating the building of churches is currently under study and will be drafted in the coming legislative period...      
Egypt's National Democratic Party is considering a unified law for places of worship, according to the Egyptian Gazette. However, the article states that the final draft of the bill has not yet been completed. The article also mentions a surveillance camera program that will soon be implemented in...
Sidhum begins by summarizing President Husnī Mubārak’s recent speech before the commencement of the new parliamentary round. He provides a largely positive analysis of the speech’s content, saying that if his government succeeds in accomplishing the social and economic goals that Mubārak mentioned...
The editors-in-chief of various newspapers held a conference to “confront Al-fitnah al-tā’ifīyah” and oppose issues threatening national security on Sunday at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate. They called for a unified law for the building of all places of worship and the removal of the “religion...
This article deals with the issue of Houses of Worship. There is no unified law concerning the building of churches in Egypt currently, and Copts have been rallying behind this issue in recent times. A recent court ruling in Egypt stated that mosques are for the public benefit, and so there was no...
This article deals with a number of political and social Coptic issues currently being discussed in Egypt. It deals mostly with the viewpoints of MP Mustafa al-Fiqi, who desires a Committee of Religious Affairs to take care of many of these issues, like church building and Copts in the government....
This article describes a conference held in Sharm al-Sheikh organized by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services. The director of the CEOSS, Nabil Abadir, stated that the purpose of the conference was to discuss “the tragic cultural dilemma Egypt is living through, hoping to build...
This article discusses a conference held in Qalyubiya to discuss citizenship rights. Much of the conference was centered on the issue of Coptic rights in Egypt. Many prominent figures were also in attendance, and the author focuses on the comments made by the host, the Governor of Qalyubiya, Adly...
 This article mentions the demonstration of 300 Copts in Tahrir Square. They protested the increased violence against Copts in Egypt. It was a totally non-violent protest, and security forces were only involved for protection. Notably, there was a large amount of young, woman Copts present at the...
Yusuf Sidhum summarises the information included in his previous four articles about the discrimination practised against Copts in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya. Sidhum uses the backdrop of his recent articles to highlight the crucial need for the unified law for houses of worship to be...

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