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The article looks at a new religious survey, Freedom in the World, which claims that none of the Christian communities in the Middle East are completely free. The author analyzes the changing face of Christianity in the Middle East and the reasons behind its recent decline.
The article reads that only a few days after an article was published by the Washington Post criticizing Saudi curricula, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a symposium on the issue of the relationship between Islamic textbooks in Saudi Arabia and the war on terror.
An Al-ʾAsbū‘ article published on January 31, 2005, reinforces a widespread belief that Americans are trying to use Egypt’s Christians to create a wedge between Muslims and Christians with the purpose of weakening Egypt. The article lacks accuracy but shows Egyptian distrust of US involvement in...
The head of the National Arab Americans Association said that when his association met the US Commission for International Religious Freedom, on its visit to Israel, they criticized the way the committee was formed and the way it works. He criticized the fact that Israel was not mentioned in the...
[RNSAW: Michael Meunier, president of the US Copts Association, only refers to the objections of Commissioner Nina Shea of the Freedom House to the report. He is obviously disappointed that all his activism did not produce the results he had wished.]
The report notices "some recent positive developments in the promotion of religious freedom." The areas of church building and preparing new history textbooks for public school children are explicitly mentioned. However, the Commission finds that serious problems of discrimination against a number...
Press Information Note 53 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Pope Shenouda, the head of the Coptic Church, and the Sheikh of the Azhar but otherwise was almost universally boycotted by both Christians and Muslims. The members of the Commission waited...
The introduction of the Coptic researcher Hani Labib’s "Religious protection crisis.. Religion and the state in Egypt" is written by Prof. Mohammed Selim Al-Awa, an Islamic thinker. Labib believes that the most dangerous tool of globalization is religion. Religion is the most explosive and...
The family visited Dr. Ibrahim in prison and wrote that he appears to be doing very well both health wise and mentally. In a second letter the family wrote that the Egyptian State Security Police Prosecutor (ESSPP) extended Dr. Saadeddin Ibrahim’s detention for another 15 days without bringing...
While Egyptians where preparing to celebrate Christmas and Eid Al-Fitr - the gift of God - that was sent to Egypt this year to confirm the unity of its people, the incidents of Al-Koshh came to spoil all that joy and happiness and cast depressing shadows on that occasion that comes only every...

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