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Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2013
Al- Minya
Clashes between Muslims and Copts have erupted again in the village of Banī Ahmad al-Sharqiya, al-Minya governorate. Security sources said that villagers were surprised by a flock of strangers from the neighboring villages after sunset prayer. They fired in the air heavily prompting the...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2013
Bishop Makarios of Minya stated that the Church does not recognize the solutions based on customary reconciliation sessions. He added that this is because such solutions are considered an insult to the state of rule of law (Ashraf Kamāl, al-Wafd, Dec. 6, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 26, 2012
Engineer Mājid Mikhā’īl has filed a lawsuit against the Coptic Orthodox Church to demand halting the Papal elections (Author not mentioned, al-Akhbār, August 26, p. 3). Read text in Arabic on AWR.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 22, 2012
Meanwhile, the Coptic Orthodox Church said that the lists of voters to elect a new pope in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March, will be announced as of Monday (July 23) until Sunday (August 5) in the notice board on the walls of the church of Bishop Ruweis at the St. Mark...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 22, 2012
Dr. Hassan al-Shāf’ī, the leader of the Azhar delegation in the assembly, said that Egyptians want a constitution that would guarantee basic rights and freedoms for all citizens regardless of religion, race or any other consideration.
“This new constitution should help Egypt restore its role in the...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 27, 2012
In another development, several Coptic movements protested outside the Supreme Court headquarters on Saturday (May 26) to demand the re-trial of 12 Copts sentenced to life terms for involvement in the sectarian incidents of Abū Qurqās in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minya. [Author Not...
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 18, 2012
In a fresh escalated reaction to the Constitutional Court’s ruling invalidating the law on the election of the People’s Assembly, the lower house of the two-chamber parliament, legislators from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) insisted on convening a legislative committee...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 2012
In an ad published by al-Ahrām newspaper, People's Assembly Speaker Sa'd al-Katātnī invited the non-appointed members of the parliament's two chambers, the Azhar, Egyptian churches, judicial organizations, executive power representatives, professional syndicates, farmers' union, Egypt's Trade Union...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 2012
Joseph Malāk, the director of the Egyptian center for development and human rights studies, a think-tank specialized in Coptic affairs, said the absence instructions by the church or Coptic leaders in the first round of the presidential elections gave rise to different orientations of Coptic votes...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 5, 2012
Robert Fisk, a renowned editorialist in the British newspaper The Independent, said Ahmad Shafīq, the Mubārak loyalist, has the support of the Christian Copts, and Assad has the support of the Syrian Christians. The Christians support the dictators. Not much of a line, is it?
On Saturday, the...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.