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It is not easy to defy the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III - and get away with it - as the family of one dead clergyman has learned. No one - including some of the pope’s most reliable allies - had anticipated the kind of revenge Pope Shenouda had arranged for...
A Muslim man killed a Coptic Christian priest in Southern Egypt on September 2, in what police said was a personal dispute over land. They said Selim Abou Aita, who had rented a plot of land belonging to the Al-Muharraq church in Assiut, some 320 kilometers south of Cairo, shot Father Aghnatious...
A British magistrate Thursday ordered a Saudi Arabian man committed for extradition to the United States to face trial on charges of conspiracy in two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa last year.
The radical Palestinian group Hamas called for talks with the Jordanian government on September 3 after 12 of its activists were arrested in a crackdown in Amman.
After months of steady improvement, relations between Algeria and Morocco have suddenly soured again as old charges of Moroccan support for Algerian rebels have resurfaced. In the wake of a brutal massacre of 30 people near the village of Bechar August 14 near the Moroccan border, Algerian...
The U.S. embassy in Cairo has granted visas to relatives of an Egyptian Muslim spiritual leader to enable them to visit him in a U.S. jail, the London-based Arabic daily "Al Hayat" newspaper reported on September 3. Sheikh Omar, 61, was found guilty in October 1995 of seditious conspiracy and...
An Egyptian-Japanese team unearthed a mosque in South Sinal which dates back to the ninth century A.D. Archeologists believe that the mosque is the oldest one ever built in the Sinai.
Officials at Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institution, are in the process of preparing a religious edict they hope will help discourage the controversial practice of naming commercial enterprises after any of the 99 names of God.
The number of divorces in Egypt is on the rise according to a Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) study reported in the Egyptian opposition daily Al Wafd. While there were 67,000 divorce cases filed in 1990, by 1997 that number had jumped to 71,000. Last year the number...
Opposition to Pope John Paul’s possible trip to Iraq widened Thursday when Iraqi dissident groups joined the United States and Jewish leaders in expressing concern about the visit.

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