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Security authorities in the governorate of Qinā managed to control incidents of Muslim-Christian sectarian sedition in the village of al-‘Ulayqāt. Rumors about Christian residents of the village intending to build a church led the Muslim youths to organize demonstrations and to clash with Christian...
Ownership of a piece of land in the Upper Egyptian village of Isnā ignites sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians of the village. Both groups seem to have equally official documents proving ownership of the land.
The Egyptian-Polish archaeological mission unearthed three papyri containing Coptic inscriptions that date back to the sixth century during excavation works at one of the Middle Kingdom tombs in al-Karnak, Luxor.
A Coptic man falsified official documents and got married with three women, one of them was Muslim. He issued a false death certificate to his wife to become able to marry again in the church.
Dr. Nasr Allāh al-Barājah, a professor at South Valley University, was suspended for three months after his Coptic students complained that the book he authored and had been teaching contained harsh criticism of Christian doctrines and insults to Christian monks and nuns.
‘Abd al-Hakīm al-Qādī writes about the newly appointed governor of Qena, Majdī Ayyūb.
The Holy Synod’s decision to dismiss Bishop Ammonius was made in order to appease some members of the Holy Synod and a Coptic businessman.
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Iqbāl Barakah reviews a report published in Rose al-Yūsuf magazine on January 26, 2008, about six villages in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena where men totally refuse the idea of education for girls.
The article sheds lights on one of the aspects of sectarianism that stormed Egyptian society. A street sign was put in the middle of a narrow road leading to a Coptic Orthodox monastery in a village in Qena that says: “Cemetery of Muslims. Non-Muslims are not allowed to pass, please!”

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