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A delegation comprised of 13 bishops and priests who represent all Christian denominations in Britain, as well as some Christian laymen, will pay a 10 day visit to Cairo to study the history of the Coptic Church, as well as visit monasteries and some Pharaonic monuments.
The author wonders about the increasing coverage of Coptic affairs in Egyptian press, and points to a number of specific periodicals that have increased their focus on such issues.
The cases of Christian conversions to Islām are now increasing which may lead to sectarian strife.
The author comments on killing a Catholic 16-year-old girl in Minia because of her relation with a Muslim man. He says that it was the first incident of murder to occur inside a Catholic community, which shows that it has been influenced by the Orthodox religious hard-liners and the violence...
The article discusses incidents of sectarian strife that erupt in Upper Egypt between Muslims and Copts over issues such as land and watering rights. It details a number of personal accounts of violence over these issues.
The prosecution department of Minya investigated the priest of the Holy Virgin church in Beni Walmis. The priest said that he could not identify the persons who attacked the church because he is a new comer to the village. He denied that one of the Christians shot bullets as a celebration of the...
In the night of the Greater Bairam, a reconciliation meeting was held among the residents of Beni Walmis village, which witnessed the recent riot events between Muslims and Christians. Residents of the village said that the aim of the meeting was to condemn the riots and to prove that Muslims...
Text of lecture about a declining Christianity in the Middle East. Dalrymple compares between his travels in the mid nineties to when he collected material for his book ‘From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East,’ and recently travelled to the areas he had visited...
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a blasphemous article, by a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against the article, the Government was accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
Jamāl Badāwī refers to the importance of a book by Coptic historian Sawirus Ibn al- Muqaffac entitled, ‘Tārīkh alĀbā’ al-Batārikah’ [The History of Patriarchs]. The book presents a clear picture of the relationship between Copts and Muslims during the early Islamic state.

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