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The author reviews the discussions that have taken place within a recent conference held in Cairo on Muslim-Christian dialogue that dealt with means to promote citizenship and enhance mutual respect between followers of each religious faith.
The Pope arrived an hour late at his weekly Wednesday Audience. This triggered speculations about his deteriorating health. “I am ready to die to get an apostate back to his religion and whoever thinks otherwise is not a Christian,” the Pope said.
The author argues that the government wanted to close the matter of the conversion of Wafā’ Qustantīn, a Coptic Orthodox priest’s wife, to Islam as quickly as possible without considering the possible repercussions which could breach citizens’ right to choose their religious belief according to...
Amidst a religious crisis that is still taking its toll on the country due to the announced conversion of a Coptic priest’s wife, a member of Parliament said the Egyptian parliament is to debate the reported sectarian incidents in the governorates of Al-Beheira and Assiut.
The Abu Al-Matameer issue caused a commotion in Egypt and brought Muslims and Christians to fanatically favor their own faiths, opening the door for myriad questions that must be answered transparently by the society so as to avoid eruption of Muslim-Christian sedition.
Last week witnessed wrathful demonstrations of thousands of Copts who conducted a five-day sit-in at the premises of St Mark’s cathedral at Abassiya, Cairo, which is also the papal seat. They were demanding the return of a priest’s wife who had disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and who,...
Forty-six-year-old Ms Costantin left home as usual on Saturday 27 November to go to work at the local office of the Agricultural Reform Authority where she is an agriculturalist, and has not been seen since. She was reported missing at the local police station.
Last week’s editorial discussed at length the explosion of the pent-up anger of the Copts in Assiut, Upper Egypt, at their continued suffering from grievances long shelved by the authorities. I wrote that Assiut was no exception among Egypt’s Coptic communities. The week's events unexpectedly...
Every now and then the US ambassador Cairo tries to tear the Egyptian national tissue under the pretext of religious persecution [of Copts], while the reality in Egypt proves the contrary. Since the American ambassador arrived to Cairo four years ago, he has been using any incident to vent his...
A copy of the Group for Democratic Development and Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies’ report on the Alexandria sectarian riots in October 2005.

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