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Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2010
Hundreds of Copts said goodbye to Pope Shenouda III yesterday before going on a medical trip to the United States. Dr. Tharwat Basīlī said that the Pope will be staying at a Cleveland hospital in Ohio for a week and that he might take the chance to meet Copts in the United States and help deal with...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2010
At the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, five thousand evangelicals from around the world--including sixty-five Egyptians headed by Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī--discussed various humanitarian and international topics including proselytization. Al-Bayādī said that Middle-Eastern...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2010
After being disbarred from the Syndicate of Lawyers for making offensive comments about God and the Prophet Muhammad, Maurice Sādiq, the head of the National American Coptic Assembly, accused the syndicate of anti-Semitism. He claims to have appealed to the American Lawyers’ Syndicate, the United...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2010
In response to the demonstrations against Pope Shenouda III, a number of Facebook users created a group called “electronic demonstrations” where they would meet every Friday at 2pm to express love and support for the Pope. The group's creators say the demonstrations against the pope are a threat to...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2010
A source at the Muslim Brotherhood Shūrá Council revealed to Al-Wafd that six parliamentary candidates were given the green light to run in Minya. The candidates are Bahā‘ ‘Attiyah, Dr. Muhammad Sa‘d al-Katātnī, Bakr al-‘Uylī, ‘Abd al-Rahīm ‘Abd al-Salām, Isma‘īl Tharwat ‘Abd al-Fattāh and Muhammad...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2010
Wafd Party member Rāmī Lakah (a Greek Catholic) said that his visit to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral last Wednesday had nothing to do with the elections, but that he was just there to visit Pope Shenouda III. He said that the decision not to run for the al-Azbakiyyah district but to run...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 16, 2010
Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Najīb Jibrā‘īl said Christian satellite channels should not broadcast material offending Islam. He also said that there is a media campaign urging governments in the Gulf to fire their Coptic workers, which are believed to number around one thousand.
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Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 15, 2010
In an interview with onislam.net, Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib said that if it weren’t for the Azhar, Bishop Bīshūy’s comments would have caused a fitnah that could have hit Egypt from Aswan to Alexandria. He added that although he hates conspiracy theories, he believes there to be...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 11, 2010
The Anglican Church has ordained three Upper-Egyptian women, making them the first women in the Egyptian Church’s history to be ordained. The ordainment was carried out by Father Andrea Zakī, Father Adīb Sharqāwī and Father ‘Imād Butrus in an event that saw hundreds of Coptic attendees.
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Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2010
The editorial laments that bishops of the Coptic Church are once again at war with each other, as the current tension between Bishop Bīshūy and Pope Shenouda III is allegedly being tried to be taken advantage of. Amongst the circulating rumours is that Bishop Yu’annis paid various journalists to...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.