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Naja' Hammādī has witnessed a new kidnapping of two high school students – Jirjis Rizq and Mīnā Nash'at – while they were on their way to the Anbā Badābā Monastery using motorbikes, five kilometers away from the town.  Running out of gas, Rizq and Nash'at phoned their friends get them some gas but...
The two nominees of the National Democratic Party in Naj' Hammādī for the parliamentary elections are facing serious threats. On the one hand, Copts threatened to boycott the elections if 'Abd al-Rahīm al-Ghūl, whom they accuse of being behind the massacre of Naj' Hammādī, is nominated on the NDP’s...
In response to the heavy mayhem of Coptic teacher Anwar Mitrī, Naj‘ Hammādī’s Bishop Kyrillos called for the military to end sectarian crimes. According to Mitrī’s lawyer, the attackers accused the Coptic teacher of renting his apartment to “two indecent women," consequently burning his car and the...
Bishop Kyrillos, bishop for the city of Naj‘ Hammādī, Qena governorate, said Copts were prevented from voting at some polling stations during the public referendum on proposed constitutional amendments on Saturday. Bishop Kyrillos said that when the officials supervising the polling stations found...
Egyptians continue to react to the news that an Egyptian court has decided on the death sentence for Hammām al-Kamūnī, the man convicted for his part in the shooting of six Christians and a Muslim security officer outside a church in Naj‘ Hammādī in January, 2010.   According to Sawt al-Ummah on...
A court ruling is expected today in the case involving the Naj‘ Hammādī massacre.    The shooting occurred during Coptic Christmas Eve in 2010 in the province of Qena. Seven people (six Christians and one Muslim) died in the slaughter and nine were injured.   State Prosecutor General ‘Abd al-Majīd...
The article portrays the opinions of several prominent Copts on the meeting between Bishop Kyrillos of Naj‘ Hammādī and MP ‘Abd al-Rahīm al-Ghūl just hours before the recent elections. Al-Ghūl is rumored to be involved in last year’s Naj‘ Hammādī massacre. U.S. Copts Association President Michael...
  This year's Coptic Christmas holiday comes exactly one year after a shooting outside a church in Naj‘ Hammādī and less than a week since a tragic church bombing left 23 dead in Alexandria. In light of these threats, AWR's Jayson Casper tells the story of how Coptic Christians celebrated the...
  Following the atrocity in Alexandria, many Christians have responded with angry demonstrations and violence. Though an understandable reaction, AWR's Jayson Casper proposes an idea for Christmas Eve that can unite Christians with the very security forces they are rallying against…  
President Husnī Mubārak called upon Egypt's Muslims and Christians to unite against terrorism, after a car bomb killed 21 people and injured 70 outside the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter in Alexandria. Christians immediately protested in the streets after the blasts. Mubārak...

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