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During its campaigns for the Shūrá Council elections, the Muslim Brotherhood issued an electoral platform that underlines the importance of general freedoms. Believing that Copts are welcome to all posts, it also supports the role played by the church in implementing social norms. The platform is...
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Mustafa Mashhour, the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been diagnosed as having a blood clot in the brain and is expected to die. Brotherhood members refuse to answer questions concerning his successor. Observers recognize three candidates and one of them is the official spokesman of...
A riot in 721 AH, during the rule of Sulṭān Muḥammad Bin Qalāwūn, left 51 churches ruined in various cities in Egypt.
The daughter of Sāmī ‘Aṭīyah, who was killed by a Muslim bully, held her wedding ceremony at Mary Antonius Church in al-Zaqāzīq, wearing black instead of her wedding dress, to protest against the security’s failure to apprehend the suspect and to their collusion with him.
Sectarian clashes erupted in the Delta town of al-Zaqāzīq, following the alleged killing of a 53- year-old Copt, Sāmī ‘Aṭīyah ‘Awaḍ, by Tāmir Sāmī, a 24-year-old Muslim. The family of ‘Awaḍ accused the police of turning a blind eye to all acts of violence committed against Copts.
The number of articles published about Christmas reflects the attention the Egyptian press paid to celebrations of it. The article gives a list of the articles published in five newspapers.
Anwar al-Dishnāwī interviews Muhammad al-Drīnī, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Defending Prophet’s Descendents and Shī‘ah Affairs.
Nabīl Zakī analyses human rights violations committed by Egyptian police.
The repair of a church toilet at the Monastery of the Syrian prompted a mob to destroy the entire building while the monk overseeing the work was at the police station. Watani complains that the official press, al-Ahram and al-Akhbar, present the event as if it was a minor incident, and that...

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