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  Last Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer allegedly shot six Coptic Christians who were travelling on a train in Samallūt, a small town in the southern Egyptian province of Minya. An elderly man died in the attack.   While some government officials have been quoted in various reports as...
Many of Monday’s opinion pieces in the Egyptian press dealt with the positive and negative aspects of considering a unified law for building worship places in Egypt.  
Diana Māhir Ghālī summarizes the key opinion pieces that appeared in this weekend’s Egyptian newspapers...
This article reports on various sources, all denying that policeman ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, who allegedly shot dead a Copt and injured five others on a train, had any mental problems. According to Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufīd Shihāb this rules out any “sectarian motives behind the...
Egyptian newspapers dedicated much of their Sunday coverage to ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, the man accused of killing one Christian and injuring five others on a train in southern Egypt last Tuesday...  
This Egyptian Gazette article covers the issue of the train shooting in Minya on Tuesday night. Prosecutors have detained the 23-year old policeman who allegedly opened fire while on a Cairo-bound train, killing a 71-year-old Copt, while wounding his wife and four others, all of whom are Christian...
Christian priests have confirmed that security prevented them last Saturday from attending a meeting with Muhammad al-Barād‘ī, founder of the National Association for Change, at the house of a former diplomat in Minya. In statements made to al-Shurūq by a priest at the Samallūt bishopric, this was...
The following lines provide a resume of the history of the celebration of the Holy Family celebrated annually in the Upper Egyptian village of Jabal al-Tayr. Moreover, the media shed light on the influence of the financial crisis in Egypt on the celebration.
Personal testimony from Governor Ahmed Dia al-Din on the recent tensions in his governorate.
Two Coptic girls have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

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