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39. Bishop of Naj‘ Hammadi accuses security forces of complying with a Muslim man who leads an organization to oblige poor Christians to convert to Islam. The accused man asserts that the bishop is lying
Date of source: Wednesday, August 1, 2007
A document is issued by the bishop of Naj‘ Ḥammadī following the conversion of two Coptic men to Islām. The bishop accuses fundamentalist Islamic groups of exploiting the poor financial circumstances of some Christian young men to oblige them to convert.
42. A candidate close to the Muslim Brotherhood was accused of Islamizing poor Christians in Bahjurah
Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2006
Signs of a sectarian strife have appeared in Bahjūrah village in Qinā governorate, due to competition between a National Democratic Party candidate and an independent candidate who has close links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
21. The interview of the week in Monastery of Saint Bīshūy
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2003
The article is an interview with Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III. He comments on the relation between the church and the state, opposition within the church, divorce among Copts, homosexuality, his relations with former president Sadāt and his relation with Archpriest Mattá al-Maskīn [Yūsuf...
23. Renewal in the Coptic Orthodox Church; notes of the Ph.D. thesis of Revd. Dr. Wolfram Reiss
Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2002
Summary of the Ph.D. thesis of Revd. Dr. Wolfram Reiss about the Sunday School movement in the Coptic Orthodox Church with a focus on the role of Pope Shenouda III and Father Matta el-Meskeen and the place of the church in a Muslim society. Reiss´ study provides an excellent insight into the...
1. My own personal involvement with the RNSAW; A personal testimony
Date of source: Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Editorial Board RNSAW:Drs. Cornelis Hulsman had been invited to give a lecture on his work for the RNSAW at a conference on "Media and Interreligious Dialogue" in Vienna, Austria on November 8 and 9. The conference had been organized by the International Press Institute in Vienna, the Department of...
8. The battle of the Bishop and the priest in Assiut
Date of source: Monday, April 27, 1998
Rose el-Yousef describes the conflict between a Coptic Orthodox bishop and the people of a village in his diocese who wanted him to consecrate the son of the village priest as priest which the bishop refused. The Pope responded by taking this village and two other villages away from his diocese.

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