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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...
Bishop Marcos reported that President Mubarak granted a permit to build a church in Shoubra Al-Kheima. This decision came after the US Copts Association organized an international protest against the demolition of a building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church. It is practice of Coptic Orthodox...
A Presidential decree removed from the governors their right to make decisions on renovation or restoration requests, for places of worship, giving this right to the relevant authorities within the governorates instead. The governor of Assiut sent letters to the relevant authorities within the...
The administration of Human Rights in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a meeting with the head of the office for religious freedom of the United States. The discussion was about the meaning of religious freedom. There was a tangible change in Americans’ perception of the Egyptian social fiber...
The Christian conception of Ramadan proves the existence of the spirit of brotherhood between Muslims and Christians. A member in the executive committee of the Labor Party believes that if the religious aspect is confined to Muslims, the social and cultural aspects is for all Egyptians, Muslims...
Hulsman called some Christians in Samalut and learned from them about the problems around renovating a church. He also describes the difficulties with church renovation in Egypt in general which is not so much a matter of obtaining a permit or not but depends a lot on local bureaucrats and...
In this article, the writer discusses the problem of getting restoration licenses for churches and how the presidential decisions concerning this matter are not put into action. He gives the case of the church of the Archangel Michael, in Assiut, as an example, that clearly displays the problem he...
There is an unjustifiable shortfall in the amount of questioning of our administrations concerning what is happening. We stand confused as to whether this can be explained by authorities ignoring the issue in its entirety or is it because it is considered to be a direct challenge to those...
The file of the churches problems refuses to be closed. Whenever we think that the problems are over, we find there are more problems, in an endless stream of cases. If a presidential decree issued last December has already canceled the necessity to present church repair requests to the governors...
In this article, Mr. Sidhom deals with the proposals presented by some Copts in Egypt for the purpose of building new churches in the cities of the governorates of south and north Sinai, and the way these proposals have been neglected.

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