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The village of Dashāsha, Samsaṭā town, Banī Swayf governorate, has seen a violent brawl between Muslims and Christians over children playing on the streets, leaving five from the two sides injured. 
Muhammad Hassan writes in al-Ahrām that Tāriq al-Zumur, official spokesman for al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah, has confirmed the rights of Copts to freely practice their religion and culture.  
Security forces in Beni Suef succeeded in convening a reconciliation session between Copts and Muslims in Diābiah Village which was attended by family heads and senior figures in the village. The conflict took place in November 2013 due to a construction of a road bump and led to 16 injuries and...
Shaykh Yūssuf al- Qaradawī, head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars,  stated that the declaration of the Caliphate by ISIS is null and void according to sharī’ah and it does not serve the Islamic project. 
Magdī al Batītī, Governor of Beni Suef, has inaugurated the Bayt al- ‘Ailah in the district of Biba, Beni Suef. 
A number of politicians and human rights organizations have denounced the attacks carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters on churches and Copts’ property. They interpret these attacks as trying to drag the country into sectarian strife and bring about chaos as to weaken the popular...
Political parties and movements denounced the “deplorable” unrest between Muslims and Christians in Dahshūr and called for forming a fact-finding commission and working on brining the displaced Coptic families back to their homes in the impoverished area. Dr. Muhammad al-Barād’ī, a representative...
Biba’s District Court, headed by Justice Ahmad Qurāysh, ruled to postpone the case of Karam Sābir, member of the Writer’s Union, who is accused of insulting religion for publishing a literary series entitled, “Where is God” to a session on January 28th  (Muhamad Hassan, al-Dustūr, Dec. 26, p. 5). ...
Hundreds of people from the Church, including bishops and priests, protested in front of the Beni Suef Security Department demanding an end to the repeated encroachment of church property at the hands of some Muslims who security leaders have accused of colluding to expel Copts from the country (...
The signing of the documents indicates the renewed commitment to renounce violence and to protect the rights of citizens from the use of excessive violence by security institutions. The document confirms that it is the duty of the state and its security institutions to protect the security of...

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