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Background: Cornelis Hulsman had been invited to a lecture in Hofgeismar, Germany, about his research about the violence around the Monastery of Abū Fānā, Egypt. Prof. Karl Pinggéra opened the conference with a reference to the Egyptian Holy Family tradition. Hulsman responded to this by linking...
 A dispute between a Coptic researcher and a bishop over the approval of a dissertation on the Coptic language. 
Jeff Jacoby sets the persecution of the Copts in Egypt in a context of wider persecution against Christians all over the world, including in Iraq, China, Somalia and others.
Jayson Casper recently interviewed Father Basilius from the Coptic Orthodox Church on the role of monasticism in the church. He asked him specifically about issues related to the Monastery of Abū Fānā which was at the heart of a dispute last year with local Arab communities.
The article describes the release of two Coptic contractors who were charged with killing a young Muslim man at Abū Fānā monastery.
The author comments on the Abū Fānā reconciliation process that has been ongoing for over a year.
Comments on the ending of the legal criminal dimension of the Abu-Fana crisis
Watani recalls the clash between monks and bedouins at the Abu-Fana monastery in southern Egypt, and claims that injustice to the Christians has not been redressed.
A group of Copts who visited Abū Fānā monastery last week were attacked by Muslims. The police arrested four men and charged them with beating and molesting the victims.
Abū Fānā monastery has announced that the seven kilometer wall around its periphery has been finished but call for it to be increased to a height of four meters.

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