Items related to sectarianism

Thirty-two suspects in Khosous events
MENA 10 Apr 2013
  Twenty new arrest warrants issued Wednesday brought the number of suspects in the sectarian violence in Khosous...
Saudi Shias fear new unrest after spy arrests
Reuters 10 Apr 2013
QATIF, Saudi Arabia  — Al-Awamiyah is a small village of shabby houses, narrow streets and dilapidated palm...
A man holds a sign in Arabic against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad reading, " You are not welcome in Egypt, Magian", in front of the al-Azhar mosque during Ahmedinejad's visit to Cairo, 5 February 2013. It's considered the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The trip was meant to underline a thaw in relations since Egyptians elected an Islamist head of state, President Mohamed Mursi, last June. But it also highlighted deep theological and geopolitical differences.
Salafis to lobby against rapprochement with Iran
Al-Masry Al-Youm 03 Apr 2013
The Salafi Dawah and the Nour Party are launching campaigns against Egypt’s warming ties with Iran, leading...
Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb during a press conference, Al-Azhar, 19 April, 2011. Referring to violent clashes in Syria, Yemen and Libya, Al-Tayyeb said Al-Azhar is concerned about Arab peoples and called on Arab leaders to keep peoples' interests above their own.
Al-Azhar warns Iraqi government against political exclusion
MENA 03 Mar 2013
Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb has called on the Iraqi government to set fair rules for all Iraqis, warning it...
Session of Shura Council, Cairo, 2 January 2013.
Shura Council divided over quota for Copts in Parliament
Al-Masry Al-Youm 14 Jan 2013
The suggested quota for Coptic participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections triggered intense controversy...
Nun mourns the death of Pope Shenuda III the spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, at the Saint Mark Coptic cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district on March 18, 2012. Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda III, spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, died at the age of 88 after a battle with illness, leaving the country's Copts in mourning. He had suffered health problems for years and recently stopped receiving treatment for liver failure and tumours or swelling in his lungs because he was too feeble, the Coptic Church said.
Between the state and the church
Mai Shams El-Din 01 Jan 2013
Copts, many would say, have been persistently subject to sectarianism at the hands both of the state, and society more...
Pope Tawadros II
Rights group accuses Ansar al-Sharia Brigades of threatening pope
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Dec 2012
Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Federation of Human Rights, on Tuesday filed a charge with the prosecutor general...
Deadly blast strikes Pakistan Shia procession
AFP 25 Nov 2012
A bomb blast claimed by the Taliban killed seven people near a Shia procession in northwest Pakistan Saturday, despite...
A politicized papacy: Analysts look at new pope's political agenda
Magdy Samaan 22 Nov 2012
Newly ordained Pope Tawadros II's first meeting took place on Tuesday with figures from the leftist Popular Current...
Bahrain jails 19 Shia demonstrators for attempted murder
AFP 11 Nov 2012
A Bahraini court on Sunday sentenced 19 Shia to five years each in jail for the attempted murder of policemen during...