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Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2006
In the month of January, Egyptian Christians celebrate Eastern Christmas, and Muslims celebrate the festival of ‘Īd al-Adha.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2001
The Cassation Court accepted the appeals presented by the Prosecutor General and the families of the victims of Al-Kosheh riots against the rulings handed down in the case. The court decided to retry all the 92 defendants of the case by a different Assiut court.
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that many of the Copts’ problems had been solved in Mubarak’s time, most importantly the issue of the building of churches. He said that his message to emigrant Copts addressed three points: the court’s decision in the case of Al-Kosheh, the tearing down of a building belonging...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
The author recounts the stories of some of the emigrant Copts, to reach the conclusion that their claims about Copts being persecuted in Egypt are nothing but lies. He believes that the problem is not simply with some of those living outside Egypt, but also with a small number of people helping...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
The verdict given in the action of Al-Kosheh has caused a strong line of division between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians. Most Muslims accept the impartiality of the court while many Christians, inside and outside Egypt, expressed their anger in articles, letters and interviews about the verdict....
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2001
Egyptian security sources denied that new clashes, between Muslims and Copts, had taken place in Al-Kosheh and warned against any attempts to stir up sectarian strife there.
Bishop Wissa said that a burning substance had been thrown at three of the Copts’ houses in Al-Kosheh and one of the doors...
Date of source: Thursday, December 14, 2000
Egyptian police said that a "mentally unstable" teacher stabbed Father Hizqyal Ghubrial, the shepherded of the Church of the Virgin Mary in the village of Bardis in Sohag, with a knife after accusing him of using magic and witchcraft to separate him from his wife.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2000
Watani comments on the recent visit of Ibrahim Suleiman, the Minister for Housing, General Mustafa Abdel-Qader, the Minister for Local Development, and General Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Bakr, the Governor of Sohag, to Al-Kosheh.
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2000
In its session of yesterday, Sohag’s Criminal Court decided to continue hearing the case of the killing of Samir Oueida Hakim and Karam Tamer, two Christian youths in the village of Al-Kosheh. Shayboub William Arsel is accused of intentionally killing them both. The incident dates back to August 14...
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
Though some shops damaged in the riots in Al-Kosheh suffered damaged amounting to 200,000 EgP a ministerial decision has limited the maximum compensation that any individual who suffered loss in the riots will receive from the Egyptian government to 1,000 EgP.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.