Latest in Tag: sectarian violence Highlight
Latest in Tag: sectarian violence
Smile, shake hands, and ignore sectarian violence
Perhaps what is even more predictable than the sporadic occurrence of sectarian violence in Egypt throughout the past few decades is the official rhetoric: denying that the incident ever took place, followed by admitting that it did when mounting public pressure threatens to delegitimise their stance, followed by the “isolated incident” proclamation and a reconciliation …
EIPR campaign highlights closed churches, calls for fair construction law
Campaign reviews churches that have been shut down by security orders
Rate of sectarian violence incidents is alarming: Pope Tawadros II
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II warned on Monday against the repercussions of recent sectarian violence, citing 37 assaults on Copts since 2013. Tawadros delivered a speech while meeting with the parliamentary Religious Committee, following violent clashes between Muslims and Christians in Minya and Beni Suef last week. Despite the stateâs tendency to solve the conflicts …
Egyptâs Episcopal Church calls for an end to violence in the CAR
Bishop Mouneer condemns the massacre of Muslims by Christian forces
Muslim Brotherhood denies links to church attacks
The Brotherhood strongly criticises media reports that it was involved in Sundayâs church shooting, says three members were injured
The door of repentance is still open: Pope Tawadros II on perpetrators of church attack
Orthodox Church Pope thanks Mansour and Al-Sisi in his sermon following the attack
Christians âscapegoatedâ after sit-in dispersals, says Amnesty International
New report chronicles sectarian violence in Egypt
Military engineers visit sites of damaged Minya churches
The visit comes one day after security forces waged a campaign to restore order in Minyaâs Delga village
EIPR warns of rising sectarian violence
EIPR blames Islamist leaders for violence that was triggered by inciting hate speech, while security forces have been ânegligentâ in dealing with violence
Amnesty calls on government to protect Christians in Egypt
Report calls security forcesâ failure to protect Christian citizens âshockingâ, citing Maspero Youth Unionâs report that 61 churches were attacked nationwide
HRW condemns sectarian attacks
The human rights agency denounces sectarian violence and lack of security, holding Egyptian government responsible
Attack in Sinai kills one
Eyewitnesses claim multiple attacks in Al-Arish were synchronised, prosecution to investigate killing of Christian
Christian man kidnapped and beheaded in Sinai
Locals find the body of a Christian shopkeeper in a graveyard in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai
Authorities arrest eight after Shiâa lynching incident
Morsi draws criticism for not fighting Shiâa prejudice from NGOs as well as foreign nations
Update: Four Egyptian Shi’as killed by mob in Cairo
A group of Shi’a Muslims was attacked by a hostile mob in a village near Cairo
Christian graves vandalised in cemetery: Israel police
Police said they suspected Jewish religious extremists of spraying the Hebrew-language insults at the site
Iraq attacks kills 28
Violence has killed more than 570 people in Iraq so far in May and over 1,000 in less than two months
12 more defendants referred to court in Al-Khosous trial
Total number of defendants involved in sectarian violence in Al-Khosous stands at 45
460 people killed in bloody month for Iraq
The late-April violence was the deadliest so far linked to protests that broke out in Sunni areas of Shi’a-majority Iraq more than four months ago.
Shubra march postponed due to Brotherhood demonstration
The decision to postpone the march was to avoid clashes with the Brotherhood
British report: âIssues of concernâ remain in Egypt
FCO report expresses concern over sectarian violence, womenâs rights, freedom of expression and the constitution in Egypt
Anti-sectarian protests held in Cairo
Protests in reaction to the recent wave of sectarian violence take place in Imbaba and Tahrir Square
Seventh death in Al-Khosous
Criticism of government and police grows in the aftermath of sectarian violence in Al-Khosous and Abbaseya
Ashton meets president, opposition figures
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton says she is concerned about sectarian violence in Egypt
Libya continues persecution of Copts, closes embassy in Egypt
The Libyan crackdown on Copts continues as four more Egyptians are arrested for being Christians
Fayoum church and âgarbageâ reporting
I remain baffled
Fresh violence in Belfast highlights ongoing sectarian tensions
Tensions in Northern Ireland between loyalists and republicans have always run high, but the PFNI spokesman said that in the long-term tensions have eased somewhat
A T-shirt that brings down a nation
The waters are always on the verge of boiling, waiting for a little something to burn up a whole country
Two Copts killed in southern Egypt
CAIRO: Unknown assailants shot dead two Coptic Christians in a village of southern Egypt on Thursday, prompting an angry protest by more than 1,500 of their co-religionists, police said. A police official said Muwad Hassaad and his son Hassaad Muwad Hassaad were gunned down as they were seated in front of their shop in the …
Egypt to put 48 on trial for church clash
By Reuters CAIRO: Egypt’s public prosecutor said it had referred 48 Muslims and Christians to criminal court on Saturday for their roles in sectarian violence that led to the burning of a church in the Cairo district of Imbaba on May 7. The clashes, in which 12 people were killed and 52 wounded, were sparked …