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Asked about Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt following the Dunshwāy incident, Lord Cromer said: “In Egypt, I found no Muslims and Copts. All I found were Egyptians, some of whom go to the mosques and others go to the church.” The author argues that Lord Cromer’s interpretation of the situation...
The author states that a report being distributed by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo speaks of "criminal Muslim gangs" that attack Coptic churches, run over Christian children with motorbikes and force Christian women to convert to Islam conspiring to disrupt national unity in Egypt.
The article criticizes web sites that spread hate and exchange insults between Muslims and Christians, as well as engaging in mutual attempts to cast doubts over each other’s faith and fake accounts about Christians’ conversion to Islam and Muslims’ conversion to Christianity.
Dialogue between the Episcopal Church and the Azhar. Comment on stories about the attempted conversion of Wafa Costantin, the wife of a Coptic Orthodox priest in Abū al-Mattamir.
Comment on the alleged kidnap of Wafa Costantin, the wife of a priest in the village of Abū al-Matamir.
We are in dire need of an Egyptian civil body to unite Egyptians, Muslims and Christians and protect us from similar sorrowful events. Such a body would interfere to contain problems once they sprout, preventing them from exploding. It is time to activate and consolidate the criteria of civil...
After the avalanche of reports and commentaries on the deplorable incidents in the Wafaa Constantine row, one can dare to say there is actually a tacit tension marring relations between Egypt’s Muslims and Copts and that it would do no good to consistently deny it or sweep it under the carpet.
In his December 22, 2004 sermon at Saint Mark Cathedral in al-‘Abbāsiya, Pope Shenouda III said he went into seclusion in order to serve Copts and help solve their problems.
This country has been afflicted by some of those who belong to it. How many times has Pope Shenouda repeated over and over that: “Egypt is not a country we live in, but a country that lives inside us.” However, actions always speak louder than words.
I had decided not to deal with the incidents that followed the disappearance of Wafā’ Costantine, the matter that aroused sectarian strife in Egypt. Yet I found that despite many analyses and discussions on the topic, people are still convinced that there is no sectarian strife and extremism...

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