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Three gunmen on a motorbike kidnapped the Coptic child, Amīr Nadī ʿIzzat Yūsuf, in front of his house in the village of Shāmiya, the centre of Sāḥil Salīm. His father, Nadī ʿIzzat , was shot trying in vain to pursue the kidnappers, but sustained no serious injuries.
Head of the Nahdat al-Qadāsah church in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut, lodged a complaint against a deacon for seizing a building that was set up through donations, affiliated to the church over the area of 500 meters, after his ordainment as priest was rejected. 
The article discusses the case of a church in Assuit, Upper Egypt, which was granted a license to renovate the church, but is encountering problems with security in implementing the approved renovations.
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
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