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Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 3, 2013
The Maspero Youth Union organized an evening protest outside the headquarters of the United Nations in Cairo to protest, what they described as systematic attacks on churches and persecution of Copts within Egypt, as well as the failure of the Foreign Ministry to protect Copts in Libya. Other...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 3, 2013
Egyptian deportees from Libya have shown video clips to Egyptian authorities, which show them being beaten, tortured with electricity, robbed and humiliated. Matruh General Hospital confirmed in a report that some Egyptian deportees have suffered psychological as well as physical trauma (Muhammad...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 26, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II decided to form a committee to review the sanctions of exclusion that former Pope Shenouda imposed on some well-known figures of the Church for committing church violations. Every case will be reviewed and the Pope himself will make a decision whether to lift the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 26, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II decided to form a committee to review the sanctions of exclusion that former Pope Shenouda imposed on some well-known figures of the Church for committing church violations. Every case will be reviewed and the Pope himself will make a decision whether to lift the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 26, 2013
A judge has ordered the eviction of Shaykh Abū Islām, owner of the private television channel “al-Ummah” after being accused of defaming Christianity. Bail has been set at 20,000 Egyptian Pounds. The Public Prosecutor decided to confine the Shaykh after four days of investigation. Coptic activist...
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 24, 2013
The public prosecutor decided to remand under custody the preacher Ahmad ‘Abdullah, more commonly known as Abū Islām, for four days pending investigation in the case of religious defamation. According to Councilor Kamāl Mukhtār, there are two accusations against Abū Islām, namely exploitation of...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 21, 2013
The Swedish artist, Lars Vilks, said that he is going to show his new paintings offending the Prophet Muhammad at an exhibition in the city of Malmo, Sweden. Vilks has received death threats since his paintings, along with an article about the importance of freedom of speech, appeared in the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 19, 2013
The heads of the Egyptian Churches signed the Constitution of the “Egyptian Churches Council” at the Coptic Cultural Center in Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in al-‘Abbāsīyyah. The Egyptian Churches Council includes the Coptic Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Churches as long as Roman...
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2013
On Sunday, February 17, 2013 dozens of Copts and a number of revolutionary youth movements organized a march from Shubrā area of Cairo to the High Court. Their slogan was: “Our churches are not for war” (Tāriq Sabrī and Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, Feb. 18, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2013
Copts in the village of Sirisnā in al-Faiyum Governorate performed prayers after the attack on St. George Church. Additionally, in the presence of an officer from the Tāmīyah police station, Copts from the village of Sirisnā met with the priests to discuss a way to confront the sectarian violence...
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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.