Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 2, 2007
The author argues that the new newspaper that Bishop Bīshūy intends to issue will ignite crisis within Coptic circles. He believes that Bishop Bīshūy will use it as a platform to present himself as an alternative to Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 25, 2007
A Muslim lecturer at the Institute of Arab Music accuses a ‘Coptic’ professor who supervises his master’s thesis of persecuting him because his father in-law was a Copt and converted to Islam, claiming that the professor has a history of religious discrimination against Muslims.
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 25, 2007
A Coptic employee at a post office in northern Cairo filed a complaint before the general prosecutor, accusing a Muslim responsible in the post office of persecuting him because he ran in one of the local elections for his constituency.
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 21, 2007
In a CD recently released in Shubra, Tadrus Yūsuf, priest of Shibīn al-Kūm’s church, has attacked Islam and questioned the Qur’ān.
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 21, 2007
Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to prepare statistics about the number of Copts in Egypt. While clergymen denied the news, they asserted that the official declared number of Copts was wrong and inaccurate.
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 30, 2007
In an unprecedented step, a Coptic daughter of a priest resorted to the family court to ask for a divorce in a violation of the Coptic Orthodox Church tradition that divorce cases must first be approved by the church.
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 21, 2007 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 27, 2007
In a police report, a church servant accuses Pope Shenouda’s nephew of having an adulterous relationship with his wife. He also accuses the pope, in another report, of instructing a number of clergymen to kidnap his father to force him to withdraw the charges he directed against the pope’s nephew.
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 9, 2007
The article is about a church servant who was fired for reporting that his wife had her hymen reconstructed with permission from the church.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 22, 2007
A Coptic businesswoman has filed a complaint before the general prosecution against her Muslim lawyer, accusing him of handing over important documents to her disputants in order to force her to embrace Islām.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 27, 2006
A number of
Bahā’īs respond to the State Commissioner Authority’s report that considered them
murtad. The article stresses how the Bahā’īs will appeal this decree in an
attempt to
gain equal status as Egyptian citizens.