Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wafā' Wasfī wrote a response by a reader to one of her previous articles published in Rose al-Yusūf.
(Reviewer Note: The previous article was published in November 7, 2010, Wafā' Wasfī interviewed Bishop Wīsā, Bishop of al-Balyanā Diocese, to comment about many rumors and controversies in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Drs. Hulsman’s report discusses the state of past and present relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. The paper opens by giving information about Pope Shenouda III and the most important incidents that have taken place during his reign. The second half of the paper then looks at specific...
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2007
The critical health condition of Pope Shenouda aroused arguments about his expected successor. While a group
of laymen calls for a new law to be established for the papal elections, the church expresses its discontentment
towards what it considers to be the laymen’s interference in church’s...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
The crisis of al-Kushh village which changed its
name
to al-Salām, in Sohag governorate, seems to experience a breakthrough after Bishop Wīsā,
the bishop of al-Bilīnā, issued a decree to pardon the fourteen suspended priests.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The article sheds light on the alleged suspension of 14 priests from al-Kushh
village, presenting their responses to the accusations.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Drs. Hulsman provides a detailed description of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt, and a history of Coptic problems, stemming from their own actions and outside influences.
Date of source:
Egyptian police said that a "mentally unstable" teacher stabbed Father Hizqyal
Ghubrial
with a knife after accusing him of using magic and witchcraft to separate him from his wife. Father Ghubrial is
priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary in the village of Bardis in Sohag.
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
An examination of the crisis 25 years ago between President Sadat and the Coptic Orthodox Church, during which Pope Shenouda was confined in Anba Bishoi Monastery in the Western Desert, and banned from acting as patriarch of the Coptic Church. Many other bishops and priests were also detained, and...
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2003
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Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2003
The Minister of Culture decided to recognize the church of the Virgin Mary in Al-Balyana as an architectural monument affiliated with the sector of Islamic and Coptic Antiquities. The church building dates back to 1805.
Date of source: Sunday, November 21, 2004
Why- during courtesy visits with State officials- Church ’officials refrain from raising questions of church grievances or problems that have been placed on hold by these same authorities? The problems of churches thus stretch out, unsolved, to span decades-in sonic cases extending over half-a-...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2006
In the month of January, Egyptian Christians celebrate Eastern Christmas, and Muslims celebrate the festival of ‘Īd al-Adha.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2001
The Cassation Court accepted the appeals presented by the Prosecutor General and the families of the victims of Al-Kosheh riots against the rulings handed down in the case. The court decided to retry all the 92 defendants of the case by a different Assiut court.
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that many of the Copts’ problems had been solved in Mubarak’s time, most importantly the issue of the building of churches. He said that his message to emigrant Copts addressed three points: the court’s decision in the case of Al-Kosheh, the tearing down of a building belonging...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
The author recounts the stories of some of the emigrant Copts, to reach the conclusion that their claims about Copts being persecuted in Egypt are nothing but lies. He believes that the problem is not simply with some of those living outside Egypt, but also with a small number of people helping...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
The verdict given in the action of Al-Kosheh has caused a strong line of division between Egypt’s Muslims and Christians. Most Muslims accept the impartiality of the court while many Christians, inside and outside Egypt, expressed their anger in articles, letters and interviews about the verdict....
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2001
Egyptian security sources denied that new clashes, between Muslims and Copts, had taken place in Al-Kosheh and warned against any attempts to stir up sectarian strife there.
Bishop Wissa said that a burning substance had been thrown at three of the Copts’ houses in Al-Kosheh and one of the doors...
Date of source: Thursday, December 14, 2000
Egyptian police said that a "mentally unstable" teacher stabbed Father Hizqyal Ghubrial, the shepherded of the Church of the Virgin Mary in the village of Bardis in Sohag, with a knife after accusing him of using magic and witchcraft to separate him from his wife.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2000
Watani comments on the recent visit of Ibrahim Suleiman, the Minister for Housing, General Mustafa Abdel-Qader, the Minister for Local Development, and General Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Bakr, the Governor of Sohag, to Al-Kosheh.
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2000
In its session of yesterday, Sohag’s Criminal Court decided to continue hearing the case of the killing of Samir Oueida Hakim and Karam Tamer, two Christian youths in the village of Al-Kosheh. Shayboub William Arsel is accused of intentionally killing them both. The incident dates back to August 14...