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Al-Tahrīr summarises Coptic celebrations and prayers which took place on Palm Sunday in Cairo and across Egypt, highlighting specifically the fact that this Palm Sunday falls at a time during which Egyptian Christians have been undergoing a lot of difficulties, particularly during the recent period...
Local residents in the village of Banī Ghālib in Assiut arrested a 23-year-old Coptic young man and handed him over to police for distributing circulars propagating conversion to Christianity. [Ahmad al-Ansārī, al-Misryūn, May 4, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Under the motto "Returning to God…prayers for Egypt," more than 300,000 Copts gathered in prayers held by the Egyptian Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches at the Saint Sam'ān al-Kharāz Monastery, in the al-Muqatam area, to pray for the nation's peace and stability.
Pope Shenouda III’s absence from the October celebrations in Ismailia led rumors of his I<sup>c</sup>tikāf at the papal residence to resurface. An ecclesial source said that the pope could not travel to Ismailia because of his weekly dialysis. Makārī Yūnān said any attacks on the Pope...
Copts are calling for Easter to be made a state holiday in Egypt and the chairman of the Coptic Assembly has demanded that expatriate Copts be included in the electoral register.
The article looks at recent incidents of fundamentalism in Egypt, citing the examples of a university course at Alexandria University and an Islamic thinker who has accused priests of secretly baptising converts.
The author thinks all Muslims are accused of terrorism unless they accept kneeling before the Western hegemony.
Hānī Ahmad Rizq interviews the Muslim Dā‘iyah Abū Islām Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, owner of al-Ummah religious satellite channel, who spoke about Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt and accused Christians of targeting Muslim youth.
Father Makārī Yūnān presents his response to Dr. Zaghlūl al-Najjār’s accusations of Coptic Orthodox clergymen forcing Muslims to convert and declaring that the Bible was distorted.
Dr. Zaghlūl al-Najjār accuses Coptic Orthodox clergymen of forcing Muslims to convert and declares that the Bible was distorted. The Coptic Orthodox Church responded denouncing Zaghlūl’s allegations.

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