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The article discusses incidents of sectarian strife that erupt in Upper Egypt between Muslims and Copts over issues such as land and watering rights. It details a number of personal accounts of violence over these issues.
Some Coptic residents of al-Salām village in Sohag have expressed their disappointment with their church, after hearing the news that some Orthodox priests in the village were suspended because of financial corruption.
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a blasphemous article, by a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against the article, the Government was accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
Mamdouh Mahran, chief editor of the weekly al-Nabaa, claimed that a former Coptic monk had practiced prostitution inside the church. Mahran was highly criticized in Egyptian media and was accused of damaging national unity. His article provoked angry protests by Copts in Assiut and in the main...
The court of Cassation postponed giving its opinion concerning the appeals filed against al-Kosheh rulings by the Prosecutor General and the four convicted defendants until the session of July 30. The upshot of the report, the Cassation prosecution introduced to the court was appealing against...
The State Security Supreme Court decided to postpone the trial of Saad Eddin Ibrahim to the 19th of the coming month. Lawyer Abdel Haleem Mandour, who defends the fifth and sixth defendants and known for being an Islamist, said that he will not only defend his clients but all the defendants,...
The Washington Post newspaper published a statement directed from the Copts of Egypt to emigrant Copts. The statement stressed that Copts in Egypt are enjoying a good life and that the last three years witnessed the exertion of great efforts, on the part of the Egyptian government, to solve...
Both Pope Shenouda and the Grand Imām declared their rejection of any foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Egypt. The former said that he met the American committee to defend Egypt and to explain to its members that what the foreign press publishes and what the internet broadcasts...
The arrival of the American committee investigating religious freedom in Egypt resulted in widespread reactions from all Egyptian circles, which mostly rejected the committee’s activity in Egypt. Pope Shenouda rejects receiving the Congress’ committee and the Grand Shaykh said that bonds...
After examining the reasons on which the court based its ruling in al-Kosheh action, the Attorney General decided to appeal against it. The Judge, who gave the ruling in al-Kosheh action, said that the prosecution had the right to appeal against the ruling and that he gave the ruling with a...

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