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Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 21, 2013
Pope Tawadros mourned the martyrs of Egypt from the police and armed forces as well as the victims of the train of Dahshūr. The Pope has stated, “We pray to God to end these painful events that are targeting the youth of Egypt in general” (Amānī Mūsá, Copts United, Nov. 21). Read original text in...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 18, 2013
Constituent Assembly
Najīb Jibrā'īl, the head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization (EUHRO), headed a delegation from the organization to the Constituent Assembly together with Coptic activists. He submitted an action plan demanding a Coptic quota and women’s quota in the...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 12, 2013
Pope Tawadros II has welcomed the President of the Constituent Assembly , ‘Amr Mūsá, in St. Mark’s Cathedral. Church sources told Middle East News Agency that the meeting took place in the Pope’s headquarters in the Cathedral at the end of the weekly sermon of the Pope. The sources explained that...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2013
European Parliament in Brussels has approved the official request of the Dutch Coptic Organization for a special hearing session with a number of Coptic leaders abroad on the first of October. This comes together with hearings before parliamentarians in several European countries. The appointments...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2013
The three churches have agreed to allocate their delegates in the Constituent Assembly in the different sub-committees. Meanwhile, the Maspero Youth Union Organization has proposed to the assembly to implement a quota system for Copts in parliamentary law and to reserve a seat for a Copt from every...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 9, 2013
Bishop Antonius Azīz stated in an interview that the Brotherhood attacked Christians to force them into a confrontation with the army and the police.
The Bishop of Giza, Faiyum, and Beni Suef stated that a decent Constitution does not differentiate between one person and another, as long as both...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 8, 2013
Copts in the area of Dayr Mawās continue to ask for the intervention of security forces to stop the state of fear and terrorism in which they have been living since attacks began on August 14. Since then, more than 40 stores have been vandalized; the diocese buildings and church-related facilities...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 7, 2013
The Associated Press news agency (AP) published a report from the city of Diljā, in al-Minya governorate. The village is now out of governmental control after extremist supporters of deposed president Muhammad Morsi (Mursī) expelled security forces and took over the police station. The agency...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2013
Egyptian churches condemned the assassination attempt on General Muhammad Ibrāhīm, Minister of Interior, and described it as “a cowardly criminal act and a surge in terrorist operations in Egypt”. They pointed out that the protection of the churches is substandard, but they trust that they are in...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2013
The American organization, Open Doors, ranked Egypt as 25 among the world countries where Christians are persecuted, in 2013. It stated that it already collected 430,000 dollars in order to rebuild the burned churches and houses destroyed by extremists.
The American Center for Law and Justice...
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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.