Sectarian Conflicts

October 5, 2011

Government committee recommends sacking of Aswan Governor

An Egyptian government committee on Wednesday recommended the dismissal of Aswan Governor Major General Mostafa al-Sayed for his failure in…

June 25, 2011

Some Muslims set the houses of their Coptic neighbors ablaze on Saturday after a dispute over building a church in…

September 9, 2010

A number of websites have posted a video clip of a woman claiming to be Camilla Shehata, the wife of…

January 24, 2010

A delegation dispatched by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom is currently visiting Cairo in order to review the…

January 24, 2010

A delegation from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an office of the US government, presented complaints…

January 7, 2010

Qena-–In the biggest church in Farshout, a town harboring a little less than 60,000 inhabitants in Upper Egypt’s Naga Hamady,…

November 22, 2009

Seventy Muslim rioters were arrested by authorities in the village of Fartoush in the Upper Egyptian province of Qena on…

October 29, 2009

Some 200 Muslim youth of Bodroman village in Menya staged protests on Wednesday against a local church renovating its steeple.…