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Date of source: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Al-Minyā always appears to be at the center of sectarian attacks targeting Christians or their places of worship, incited either from building new churches, rumors of an illicit interfaith love affair like in the “Lady of al-Karam” incident, or Facebook posts interpreted as insulting Islam. ...
Date of source: Saturday, December 19, 2020
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) expressed great concern about the ruling issued today by the Minya Criminal Court, which acquitted three defendants for stripping Suʿād Thābit, who's known in the media as the ‘Lady of al-Karam’.
Date of source: Sunday, December 13, 2020
His Eminence Bishop Ilarion, bishop of the Churches in Western Alexandria, issued a statement concerning the events of al-Wardiyān, which resulted in the killing of a Copt and the injury of two others. He confirmed that on Thursday, December 10, two brothers, who're known for their thuggery record...
Date of source: Sunday, July 26, 2009
Christian places of prayer subjected to increasing attacks
Date of source: Monday, December 31, 2018
In a talk show aired on Egyptian TV Channels, head of the Episcopal Church, Dr. Rev. Murād Ḥanna, praised the decision of Egyptian President al-Sīsī to found a committee that counters sectarian conflicts.
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2013
Another Copt, Kamāl John, was attacked while crossing the street in north Sinai. John, a paramedic at north Sinai first aid unit, was buying water and a dish of oriental sweets for his colleagues, with whom he was celebrating his son’s success in high school.
All of a sudden, a car passed by the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Libyan government began forming a committee to investigate the attack of an Egyptian church in Benghazi. The government has said it will take the necessary actions to secure the Church and its residents. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Cooperation Libya have condemned the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 17, 2017
I witnessed the events of sectarian strife in al-Zawya al-Ḥamrā’on this day, June 17, in 1981. I saw with my own eyes the state of terrible chaos that included killing and the looting of jewellers’ shops, and I saw a building in fire, crumbling to the ground.
I was in my second year of university...
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2016
Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod and General Bishop of the Cairo Center Churches, Bishop Rūfa'īl, personally thanked Bishop Makarios, the General Bishop of Minya and Abū Qūrqās, Upper Egypt, for rejecting the customary reconciliation session in relation to the incident of Al-Karma.
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2016
In a press statement, member of the Monitoring Committee of the Egyptian House of the Family (Bayt al-`Ā'ela), Dr. `Abd al-Rehīm Rehān, said that the Committee has presented a report on its visit to the affected families of Al-Karma village in Minya. The aim of the visit was to diffuse the tension...
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