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For years I have been extremely cautious with reports published by Jihād Watch and AINA (a source often quoted by Jihād Watch). Their language tends to be inflammatory and stories that I was able to check in the past – see the many reports about this subject in AWR – proved to be exaggerated....
On Thursday, May 12, Pope Shenouda’s secretary Bishop Armia announced that claims against Kāmīliyā Shihātah are unfounded. Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Najīb Gibrael proclaimed that Shihātah will be summoned by prosecutors about her disappearance and alleged detention by the church....
 Thousands of Copts descended on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbāssīyah, Cairo on Friday, May 6, in response to a Salafi Muslim demonstration at the same location a week earlier
The Christian channel al-Hayāh which is broadcasted from the U.S. announced that Kāmīliyā Shihātah and her husband will appear on a TV show shot outside Egypt. Neither the Coptic Church nor Kāmīliyā Shihātah’s lawyer knew about the interview. Shihātah's lawyer said he has lost contact with her and...
The lawyer representing Kāmīliyā Shihātah, who is rumored to be detained by the church for converting to Islam, said his client was still a Christian and was never detained by the church. On the contrary, he said, Shihātah lived quietly with her husband and son at a location he did not want to...
 The Salafī demonstration and subsequent attacks on Coptic Orthodox churches in the poor Cairo suburb of Imbābah on Saturday reportedly began after claims that a Christian woman, 'Abīr, had converted to Islam for marital reasons and later ran 'Awwāy. Whatever the truth of these claims, the fact...
Dozens of Coptic youths organized a protest on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, before Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III's weekly sermon, demanding a response to salafists' violations against Christians and the Pope, al-Misrī al-Yawm, page 4, May 5, 2011, [Read original text in Arabic].  
According to the article at hand, the husband of Kāmīliyā Shihātah has been missing since January. The church announced that it does not suspect his disappearance to be of a criminal nature, but rather the result of a personal decision caused by great sufferings Kāmīliyā’s husband has endured since...
Most of the editorials in the newspapers are criticizing salafists' practices in sparking a fitnah in the nation. They comment on salafists' protests in front of Saint Mark Cathedral in al-'Abāsīyah demanding the release of both Kāmīliyā Shihātah and Wafā' Constantine, reportedly detained by the...

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