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Due to a new rumor claiming that Copts had attacked a Muslim house and set it on fire, the clashes began again in Banī Ahmed al-Sharqīya. This led to a security alert to contain the clashes (Hasan 'Abd al-Ghafār, al-Yawm al-Sābi', Aug. 9).Read original text in Arabic.
The village of Saft al-Laban, in al-Minya Governorate, witnessed last Wednesday sectarian fights, after an argument between a Christian and a Muslim led to the death of one of them and the torching of eight Christian houses. The security forces intervened to avoid further violence and al-Minya...
In an attempt to appease the tense atmosphere in the village of Banī Hassan al-Ashrāf, al-Minya governorate, a 'urfī (informal) conciliatory session was held in coordination with security agencies to settle sectarian unrest between two Coptic and Muslim families. [Teresa Kamāl and 'Alā' Sarhān,...
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, Minister of Endowments, stated in an interview that the reason for his request to the Ministry of Justice to grant the right of judicial arrest to the inspectors of the Ministry of Endowments is to increase the control of the Ministry over the mosques and stop any...
  On August 5, security services in al-Minya discovered the body of a man killed in the clashes which broke out between a number of Copts and Muslims in the village of Banī Ahmad al-Sharqiya in al-Minya governorate because of a pro-army song. Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hamīd, 30, resident of...
An investigative report on al-Minya sectarian violence between villagers of al-Hiwārtah, which has a Muslim majority, and Nazlit ‘Ābid, which has a Christian majority, appeared in al-Wafd. Copts in Nazlit ‘Ābid have denounced the death of ‘Abd al- Massīh ‘Ayād Fānūs. Girgis, one of the victims of...
The ethnic reconciliation session in Matāy (al-Minya governate) have completed the reconciliation between the people of the village of Manbāl, after a group of youths attacked the Prince Tadros Church and smashed up two pharmacies, some shops and cars owned by Copts, during a fight between Muslims...
Shaykh Mahmūd Tawfīq, director of the mosques of al-Minya’s religious endowments, and Rev. Kamāl Rushdī, representative of the Evangelical Church, encouraged participation in the presidential elections, and voting for President ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī, during the scheduled presidential elections on...
Tomorrow (Monday), The Coptic Evangelical Commission for Social Services will organize a forum for cultural dialogue under the title “Together Against Violence” at the Commission’s headquarters in Arḍ al-Sulṭān in al-Minyā. 

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