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The article reports on a lawsuit filed by 50 Christian families from al-Rihāb city asking to stop the construction of a gas station being built close to a church and a power station which threats a big disaster.
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Last Friday, Bishop Yu’annis said the first mass at the Virgin Mary Church in al-Rihāb. Meanwhile, Pope Shenouda has decided to appoint Fathers Fīlopātīr Ramzī, Boulus Majdī and Antonious Emile to be in charge of the spiritual service in the area until new priests are ordained.
In the interview with the Grand Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Ali Goma’a, published in Watani on June 6, 2004, His Eminence mocked some questions about citizenship, describing them as funny. We would like to ask his Eminence about the meaning of citizenship. Does citizenship mean drinking the same...
The article consists of two parts. The first part is the letter Watani received from Mr. Hisham Talaat Mustafa, chairman of the board of Al-Rehab company, in response to Watani’s editorial of 21 March dealt with a complaint of Christian residents of the new Cairo town of al-Rihab. The original town...
In Al-Rehab City [a satellite city northeast of Cairo on Cairo-Suez road], the building of a church was canceled. So Christians living in this city have to attend a church in Cairo, which is very exhausting. There are six mosques inside Al-Rehab City. Both Muslims and Christians contributed to...
Readers might remember the story of the church of the new town of Rihab, to which I referred a few weeks ago. On 26 April, the representatives of the Coptic Orthodox Church received the 3000 square meter plot of land allotted to the church in Rihab. The New Urban Communities Authority had...
Christians dwelling in the new cities are suffering in terms of meeting their spiritual needs. No churches are built there. The thought of purchasing a land to build a church, will cost them to meet the complications of the authorities. If they succeed in overcoming this, they will get caught in...
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