7/1/11 - (AINA) -- On Thursday evening, June 30, Muslims looted and torched Christian homes and businesses in the village of western Kolosna in Samalut, Minya province. It was reported that some 10 Christians were injured, but none went to hospital and first aid was administered at home. Musli...

 Almasry Alyoum, 6/26/11:  Egyptian security sources said on Sunday that four men had been arrested for their alleged involvement in sectarian clashes that erupted in Sohag governorate, Upper Egypt, on Saturday. Nine others are said to have been identified as involved in the clashes. The ...

 SperoNews, 6/24/11:  Cairo - Hundreds of Salafists yesterday attacked the Coptic Church of St. George in the village of Bani Ahmed (Minya - Upper Egypt) and attempted to kill Fr. George Thabet. The news was reported this morning. According to local sources, the extremists turned up outsid...

 FrontPageMag, 6/23/11 - Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then “sold” in Minya, Egypt—the same region where a Coptic church was recently attacked and desecrated. I tried to find this story in English-language media and, as expected, found not...

WSJ, 6/11/11 - QENA, Egypt—Five weeks after the fall of the Egyptian regime, Ayman Anwar Mitri's apartment was torched. When he showed up to investigate, he was bundled inside by bearded Islamists. Mr. Mitri is a member of the Christian Coptic minority that accounts for one-tenth of the ...

 فى عالم كرة القدم المصرية، ثمة أهلاوية، وثمة زملكاوية، وقليلون يشجعون نوادى أخرى، لأسباب إقليمية. كأن يشجع أهل بورسعيد النادى «المصرى»، وأهل الإسكندرية «الاتحاد».. إلخ، لكن لابد لكل بور سعيدى وإسكندرانى من انتماء ما، للأهلى أو للزمالك، يظهر بجلاء حين لا يكون فريقه الإقل...

 أنا أيضا شاهد عيان لما جرى فى إمبابة، ليس فقط باعتبارى صحفيا جرى إلى مكان الحدث بعد ساعات من وقوع هذه الاشتباكات الدامية والحرائق المقيتة، ولكن لأننى أنتمى بحكم المولد والتاريخ لهذا الحى العريق «إمبابة»، كما أننى انتميتُ أيضا فى فترة مبكرة من صباى إلى إحدى الحركات الإسلامية الجهادي...

 NPR, 4/21/11 Many who took part in Egypt's popular uprising hoped it would lead to improved relations between the country's Muslims and the Christian minority. But in some Egyptian cities, residents say religious tensions are worse than ever. One of the hotspots is the southern Egyptian city...

 Almasry Alyoum, 4/21/11 Upper Egypt's military prosecution ordered on Tuesday the detention of 18 people for 15 days pending investigations into sectarian clashes in Minya on Monday that killed two and injured four others. The detainees are facing charges of murder, rioting, damaging public ...

 Almasry Alyoum, 4/29/11 Thousands of Salafis staged three protests in Cairo after Friday prayers to highlight the ten demands they announced during protests in Alexandria Sunday. They staged the first protest in front of Fateh mosque in Ramses Square, the second in front of Noor mosque in Ab...

 كتب: حسام السويفي 4/19/11 طالب عدد من قيادات السلفية بعزل البابا شنودة بطريارك الكرازة المرقسية، وهددوا بالاعتصام أمام الكاتدرائية المرقصية بالعباسية في حالة إصرار البابا على عدم الإفراج عن كاميليا شحاتة ووفاء قسطنطين و70 من المتأسلمات في كنائس البابا شنودة علي حد تعبير السلفيين. وقال الش...

 تظاهر نحو 10 آلاف من الأهالي، أمام ديوان عام محافظة قنا، الجمعة، احتجاجا على تعيين المحافظ عماد ميخائيل محافظا لقنا ، خلفا للمحافظ السابق مجدي أيوب، وهو مسيحي الديانة أيضا. وحمل المتظاهرون اللافتات التي تطالب القوات المسلحة ورئيس الوزراء بتغيير المحافظ الجديد، مطالبين بـ«محافظ مسلم&raqu...

قام أعضاء من اتحاد المنظمات القبطية بأوروبا، وبمشاركة عدد من المنظمات الأمريكية بزيارة خاطفة لأرض الوطن استغرقت أسبوعين، كانت زيارة مشحونة بالمقابلات والحوارات مع شخصيات مصرية، ورموز وطنية على رأسهم الدكتور"عصام شرف" رئيس الوزراء، والدكتور"يحيى الجمل" نائب رئيس الوزراء، واللواء&q...

 3/25/11, MEMRI In the village of Qana, in Upper Egypt, Coptic Christian teacher Ayman Anwar Metari was attacked by a Salafist gang that cut off his ear and wounded him in the head and body, while shouting religious slogans. The gang also burned his home and his car. The attack came against ...

 AP, 3/29/11 CAIRO — Members of an ultraconservative Muslim sect clashed with villagers south of Cairo over demands that a liquor store and coffee shops be closed, officials said Tuesday, a sign of the increasing assertiveness of the fundamentalist Salafi movement. One villager was ki...

 نشر موقع الأقباط متحدون خيرا عن قيام العشرات من السلفيين بالتعدي على "أيمن أنور متري" -أحد أقباط قنا- وحرق سيارته، وشقة يمتلكها ويؤجرها لمسلم، وكذلك قطع أذنه، وإصابته بقطع عرضي خلف الرقبة. تحرر محضر بالواقعة حمل رقم 993 لسنة 2011 قسم شرطة قنا، وأمرت النيابة بضبط وإحضار المتهمين الذين...

 NRO, 3/10/11:  The violence against Copts in Egypt reported yesterday on NRO by Nina Shea is now being covered more widely (see here, here). There is still much that has not yet been reported in the West, but many in the Egyptian press are doing a good job. The violence in the last two d...

NRO, 3/9/11:  Violence against Christian Copts in Egypt escalated yesterday with reports that a mob of some 15,000 armed Muslims, using Molotov cocktails, guns, and clubs, violently attacked a vastly outnumbered crowd of Christians on the outskirts of Cairo. The Christians had been demonstratin...

 National Catholic Register, 3/15/2011 CAIRO, Egypt — Hopes that the Egyptian revolution would lead to greater religious tolerance were jeopardized last week, after Muslims clashed with Christians who were protesting the arson of an Orthodox church. According to media reports, a mob of ...

Document 1: A report to present to the Interior Minister December 2, 2010 The mandate for group No. 77, dated December 2, 2010, examines the possibility of quelling Coptic consecutive protests and calming the tone of Pope Shenouda in his dialogue with the regime. We recommend carrying out a sabota...

 حصل "اليوم السابع" على مستندات تكشف مخطط وزير الداخلية السابق حبيب العادلى لتفجير كنيسة القديسين بالإسكندرية، وهو تكليف القيادة رقم 77 بتاريخ 2 ديسمبر 2010 حول بحث إمكانية تكتيف الأقباط وإخماد احتجاجاتهم المتتالية وتهدئة نبرة البابا شنودة فى خطابه مع النظام، يتم تنفيذ عمل تخريبى ضد إ...

 مسلمون يعتدون على اقباط قرية الحتحته لشروعهم فى استغلال ساحة الكنيسة والامن يتصدى لهم نادر شكرى رغم مشاعر الوحدة الوطنية التى شهدتها ثورة 25 يناير وتالف الأقباط والمسلمين واختلط دمائهم من اجل تحقيق مطالبهم شهدت قرية " الحتحته " بمركز سمالوط بالمنيا أحداث طائفية عندما هاجم بعض مسلمي...

 المخابرات البريطانية: الداخلية المصرية فجرت الكنيسة كشف دبلوماسي بريطاني أمام دوائر قصر الاليزيه الفرنسي، عن سبب إصرار إنكلترا على المطالبة برحيل الرئيس المصري وفريقه، خصوصاً أجهزة وزارة الداخلية التي كان يديرها الوزير حبيب العدلي، والسبب هو أن المخابرات البريطانية تأكدت، ومن المستندات الرسمي...

Translated from the original article by Samuel Tawadros, posted on 1/30/2011 by Coptic News In the current absence of a security apparatus in Egypt, members of the Al-Khawaaled family (a Muslim family) attacked members of the Al-Hawayesh family (a Christian family) in the village of Sharoonah, coun...

 New York Times, 1/3/2011:  CAIRO — Egypt’s interior minister charged Sunday that a Palestinian extremist group with links to Al Qaeda was behind the Dec. 31 bombing outside a church in Alexandria that killed 21 people and set off days of sectarian rioting around the nation. I...

 Huffington Post, 1/20/2011 Every time I begin writing this blog entry, something else happens to the Copts in Egypt. Earlier this week, an off-duty police officer opened fire on a train in the Minya governorate, killing one Coptic Christian and wounding five others. On New Year's Eve, as Copt...

National Review Online, 1/14/2011 Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting” Jesus. Imagine if mosques were being bombed and burned by terr...

 AlAhram, 1/17/2011 Two fatal incidents in the first two weeks of 2011 - the Two Saints Church bombing in Alexandria and the Samalout train shooting - have lead to the Egyptian government losing more ground with both Muslims and Copts. “The recent incidents left Egyptians even more angr...

 Almasry Alyoum, 1/19/2011 Judicial sources said witnesses to the New Year’s Eve church bombing report having seen a person opening a manhole cover near the Church’s entrance only minutes before the devastating blast took place. They suspected that the person seen opening the manh...

 The Nag Hammadi incident last January was whitewashed by the authorities as revenge by an individual whose honor had been violated. The perpetrators in that incident have yet to be convicted. Mr. Mubarak, how will you explain this latest inhuman behavior of extremist Muslims? Are you going to...

لثلاثاء، 4 يناير 2011  أنت ميت مثلى، كلنا ميتون.. فكيف للموتى أن يرسموا صورة وطن حى؟ لا تتحدث إذن عن شمس تشرق فى ميقاتها الكونى بلا انقطاع، أو عن نهر يجرى بين ضفتى الوادى، أو عن بناء يعلو فى قلب الصحراء، أو عن طفل ينتظر جرس الحصة ليتعلم، أو عن نخلة طرحت ثمرا على ساحل البحر. لا يجوز للموتى أن ...

الأربعاء، 5 يناير 2011  طالب الرئيسُ المصرى حسنى مبارك الشعبَ المصرى، مجتمعًا، بالوقوف فى وجه الإرهاب الذى استهدف تفجير كنيسة «القديسيْن» بالإسكندرية ليلة الجمعة وأسفر عن سقوط عشرات القتلى والمصابين، ونقلت وكالة أنباء الشرق الأوسط أن الرئيس «يهيب بأبناء مصر، أقباطًا ومسلمين، ...

 Associated Press, 1/5/2011 CAIRO (AP) — Ahmed Ibrahim says his best buddies are Christian, something he says raises the ire of some of his fellow Egyptian Muslim friends, who often counsel him against being so close to non-Muslims. "They cite Quranic verses that say Christians are...

The Guardian, 1/5/2011 On the evening of 31 December, Mariam "Mariouma" Fekry, a Coptic Egyptian young woman living in Alexandria, logged into her Facebook account to express her hopes for the new year and pray to God to protect her. She wrote: "2010 is over.....this year has the be...

Newsweek, 1/5/2011 The devastating bombing at Saints Church in Alexandria last Friday night has left Egypt reeling. In recent days there have been endless rounds of further violence: clashes between Christians and Muslims, clashes between Christians and government security forces. Many Egyptians fe...

JPost, 1/3/2011 A coalition of Egyptian lawyers accused Israel of being behind an terror attack in Alexandria that killed 22 members of the Christian Copt sect attending midnight mass on New Year's eve, Army Radio reported Monday. "The Mossad carried out the the operation in a natural reactio...

 The New Year’s Eve Attack on a Coptic Church in Alexandria that left 21 Churchgoers dead came as no surprise to anyone that has paid slight attention to religious freedom issues in Egypt. Remarkably however, judging by the reaction of Egyptians, both from the elite and the mass populatio...

 National Review Online, 1/3/2011 The bombing of the al-Qidiseen church (“Church of the Two Saints”) in Alexandria, Egypt, shortly after midnight on January 1 — in an attack that appears initially to be the work of al-Qaeda — is an ominous escalation in the ongoing atta...

 WSJ, 1/4/2011 Following the New Year's Eve massacre of a score of Coptic Christian worshippers outside a church in Alexandria, Egyptians are wasting no time fingering the likely culprit. "With careful consideration," observes commentator Ammar Ali Hassan in the independent daily Al...

By Hani Shukrallah, Al-Ahram, 1/1/2011 We are to join in a chorus of condemnation. Jointly, Muslims and Christians, government and opposition, Church and Mosque, clerics and laypeople – all of us are going to stand up and with a single voice declare unequivocal denunciation of al-Qaeda, Islam...

 By the Monitor's Editorial Board / January 4, 2011 Strong condemnation of the deadly New Year’s bombing at a Christian church in Egypt has come from where it counts most: religious and political leaders of this predominantly Muslim country. Extreme Islamists – possibly linked to ...

Alexandria: January 2, 2011. (By Mary Abdelmassih AINA) The car explosion that went off in front of Saints Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria killed 21 and injured 96 parishioners who were attending a New Year\'s Eve Mass. According to church officials and eyewitnesses, there are many more victims...

 The New York Post, 12/22/2010 t's shaping up to be a bad Christmas for one of the oldest Christian sects in the Middle East, where Christianity was born -- and an even bleaker future for Egyptian Copts. Police fired live ammunition last month at Copts protesting the government-halted const...

Cairo, Egypt, Dec 19, 2010 / 06:02 pm (CNA).- An Egyptian priest has explained that radical Muslims are trying to rid the Middle East entirely of Christians, who once comprised the largest religious group in the region. “This is what the Muslim fundamentalists want,” the Egyptian Cathol...

 December 20, 2010 - CAIRO, Egypt (CDN) — An Egyptian who left Islam to become a Christian and consequently lost his wife, children and business is waiting to see if the government will now take away his freedom for "defaming" Islam. Ashraf Thabet, 45, is charged with def...

 تصوروا أن يكون عنوانُ المقال، هو أحدَ التعليقات المخجلة التى وردت فى خبر بثّته «اليوم السابع» عنوانه (مبنى من 3 طوابق بـ«العمرانية» يتحول إلى مسجد؟) دعك الآن من العنوان وهذا التعليق السخيف ولنعد إليه لاحقًا، وباستفاضة. عندما وصلنى خبرُ هذا المسجد، اتصلتُ برئيس تحرير &l...

12/20/2010 - (AINA) -- The high profile criminal trial of 21-year-old Christian Copt Girgis Baroumi, accused of sexually assaulting a Muslim girl, is viewed by the Coptic community as an example of how the Egyptian government, using all its organs, including the Attorney General, Interior Minis...

 Vatican Radio, 12/15/2010 More than 150 people, many of them minors, remain in jail following the November 24th clashes between Egyptian security forces and Coptic Christians protesting the block on construction of their new church near Giza. Security forces opened fire on the unarmed crowd, ...

 بقلم: عبد الناصر سلامة أحداث التجمهر والتجاوز والخروج علي الشرعية والقانون التي شهدتها منطقة العمرانية بمحافظة الجيزة الأربعاء قبل الماضي‏,‏ تؤكد بما لايدع مجالا للشك ان الدلع والطبطبة والمدادية لابد ان تسفر في النهاية عن مثل هذه الأحداث‏.‏فيبدو أن البعض قد فهم المواطنة علي أن...

 Having started the forty days of the ‘Advent’ lent, leading to the celebration of the birth of Christ, we cannot but be reminded of the heinous tragedy which occurred at Nag Hammadi. Not that it had been forgotten, but other similar atrocities have befallen the Church and the Copts...