Date of source: Friday, June 7, 2019
The families of ‘Sammālūṭ’ in al-Minya have intervened to cooperate with the police in a council for peace to resolve the tension sparked by the return of "Faransah ʿAbd al-Sayyid", a 26-year-old female Christian-to-Muslim convert with her husband.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 5, 2019
A state of anger is coasting among Copts in ‘Sammālūṭ’ in al-Minya after "Faransah ʿAbd al-Sayyid", a 26-year-old female Christian-to-Muslim convert and her Muslim husband were allowed entry to there village amid increased security presence.
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2012
Abrām Lewis, the founder of the Association of Victims of Abductions and Enforced Disappearances (AVAED), said AVAED will meet within the next few days with Dr. Tayīb and senior clerics of the Azhar to discuss the association’s demands to re-apply the guidance and advice sessions for Christian...
Date of source: Friday, October 17, 2014
A young girl and her mother proclaimed to convert to Islam. While the mother was changing her and her daughter’s documents, the father was travelling to Kuwait and became angry because, even if it was the free will of his wife to convert, there must be a law that protects the child and he...
Date of source: Thursday, October 4, 2018
After decades of tension between the state and the church in Egypt over many thorny issues, their relations have flourished in recent years, especially after the exclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood from the political scene in 2013.
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2013
Former member of the Dutch right-wing Freedom Party and contributor in producing an anti-Islam film Arnaud Fandor embraces Islam. Fandor, who belonged to one of the most "extreme" and "hostile" parties to Islam, said that after watching the reactions against the film, he began to search for the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2018
On February 17, 2018, Arab-West Report sent a delegation of interns to Qufāda, a village in Maghāgha, al-Minīa, to inquire into the outstanding relationship between its Christian and Muslim population. We interviewed two religious leaders, Abūna [Father] Yuʾannas, the priest of Qufāda’s Coptic...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Saturday, March 3, 2018
Shaykh Muhammad Hassān, an Islamic preacher, took 20,000 Salafists during a symposium in Beni Suef with an Italian young woman who recited the Muslim shahādah (creed) in both Arabic and English and declared her conversion to Islam amidst cheering and shrills of approval by the participants in the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2017
On Sunday the Egyptian Authority declared that they had attacked one of the leaders of the Anṣār Bayt al-Maqdis that is supporting Dāʿish [ISIS/ISIL] during a security attempt to arrest him in al- ʿArīsh.
Date of source: Sunday, March 26, 2017
Dozens of people, including police officers and [army] conscripts, were injured in clashes between Muslims and Christians in the village of al-Muhayidāt in Luxor, in the south of Egypt.