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Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 11, 2014
Participants in a conference for Copts in Cairo held by the Egyptian Organization Union for Human Rights issued seven demands to confront the issue of the migration of Christians from the Arabic world. The demands included the fair representation of Christians in positions of authority, the...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 7, 2014
Muhammad Badī’, Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, addressed the court from the prisoner’s dock before the beginning of a session of his trial in Qalyūb. He stated that the Egyptian people had elected Muhammad Mursī, and also said that he was the first Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood to...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 7, 2014
The Azhar has declared the American film ‘Noah’ unlawful due to its incarnation of one of the prophets, and stated that it will make efforts to ban the film entirely. The Azhar released a statement saying that “Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, Grand Imām and Shaykh of the Azhar, the Council of Senior Scholars...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 6, 2014
Father Bishoy Hilmī, Secretary of the Egypt Council of Churches, said that the Council would seek legal recognition, and would submit a request to the Presidency. Halmī stated that the organisation had originally sought a constitutional article from the Constituent Assembly of 2013 (also known as...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 5, 2014
Shaykh Yāssir al-Burhāmī, vice president of al- Da’wah al-Salafiyah, has issued a new fatwá, stating that watching sinful movies is permissible, as long as one denounces them in one’s heart. He said he would not allow people to be deemed as unbelievers for participating in television programs that...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 5, 2014
The army has asked the Crisis Committee for the Orthodox Church to specify the Churches and places of worship that are a priority for rebuilding or restoration after they were damaged during the violence that followed June 30, after a previous attempt to raise the necessary funds for restoring them...
Pope Tawāḍrūs II: “The Assassination of Bishop Epiphaniyūs Prompted the Church to Take New Measures”
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 29, 2018
In an interview hosted by Sky News TV Channel, Coptic Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, Tawāḍrūs II, said that Bishop Epiphaniyūs, who was killed close to his cell inside the Abū Maqār Monastery (St. Makarius [Makāriyyūs] Monastery), was cherished and respected by everyone, adding, that in...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 27, 2014
The Azhar and Dār al-Iftā’ will not stipulate a specific form of takbīr (the exclamation ‘Allahu Akbar’), according to puresunnah during ‘Īd al-Fitr, and in a fatwá stated that the form of takbīr used by Egyptians for a long time, as opposed to that used by the Companions of the Prophet, was...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 27, 2014
A number of Coptic movements, most prominent among them the Middle Eastern Forum for Freedom (Muntadá al-Sharq al’Awsat li-l-Hurriyyāt) and Democratic Egyptian Solidarity (al-Tadāmun al-Misrī al-Dīmuqrātī) have protested outside the embassy of the Vatican, demanding Pope Francis and the Security...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 23, 2014
The fact finding committee formed by the NCHR has left for the village of Jabal al- Tāyr, Minya, in order to research the facts concerning the events that the village witnessed recently
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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.