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The Holy Synod’s decision to dismiss Bishop Ammonius was made in order to appease some members of the Holy Synod and a Coptic businessman.
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
An in-depth look at the third annual report of the Citizenship Committee of the National Council for Human Rights [NCHR]. Particular focus is placed on missing Coptic women and the complaints that are lodged against public institutions.
Y?suf Sidhum welcomes the new year and hopes to see a positive change in Egypt. He highlights the positive economic development, and recalls negative incidents from 2006
Sectarian violence broke out in the Upper Egyptian village of Armant, Qinā governorate, after rumors spread that a group of three Coptic young men seduced a number of Muslim girls and filmed them in compromising positions. Arson attacks swept the village and eight Muslim teenagers were arrested for...
Dr. Isaac Fānūs freely spoke his mind about the issues he found important. Dr. Fānūs was critical about ecclesiastical institutions and leadership, including those in his own Coptic Orthodox Church. In this interview religions are described as societal entities that humans have created and...
Nājih Sam‘ān, the author, presents a brief study on the historical and geographical background of Catholicism in Egypt.
Montasser al- Zayyat, the lawyer of the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah was interviewed by al-Midan, Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat. In the statements he gave to the three papers he commented on the initiative denouncing violence, the government’s reaction towards it, the differences between the Jamā...
Majdī Khalīl discusses the forced disappearance of Coptic girls. The claims around this phenomenon are not new, however it is being announced more frequently. Khalīl discusses the reasons why Coptic families are more often daring to announce the disappearance of their girls, and the reasons behind...
Early last Friday morning, thousands of Christians of all ages rushed into the church of Virgin Mary in Luxor. The occasion was Bishop Musa calling the Christians of Luxor in an attempt to open a positive conversation to solve the crisis after the people’s out right rejection of the decision...

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