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Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Dr. Sālim 'Abd al-Jalīl, assistant minister of endowments for preaching and preachers affairs, said that the 2001 statute has good regulations for building mosques.
Dr. Hamdī Zaqzūq, minister of endowments, said that he is with issuing a new law to regulate building churches.
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Date of source: Sunday, October 23, 2011
Maspero Youth coalition divided over whether Maspero incidents should be internationalized or not.
On the other hand, hundred of Copts in Austria protested off Hofburg Palace, where the Austrian President reside, and the Austrian Federal Chancellery, residence of Chancellor of Austria, and Austrian...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Party Affairs Committee approved the formation of al-Hayāh Party, founded by Michael Munīr [Coptic activist and head of U.S. Coptic Association].
Munīr said that the party is liberal and not religious. It has Coptic and Muslim members and it believes in human rights and freedom under the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 29, 2011
Egyptian churches along with the Evangelical denomination in Egypt refused the European Parliament (EP)'s "Joint Motion for Resolution" document that condemns Egypt. The Motion said that Copts are being persecuted in Egypt. On the other hand, the Coptic Catholic Church refused to comment.
A Coptic...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, met with Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III at the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
They both agreed to put the nation’s interest first during the current period. Tantāwī assured the pope that they...
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2011
Residents of al-Marīnab village, Idfū town in Aswan governorate called on Copts to take the church crisis to court, and they vowed to build the church if the court approves its construction.
The Catholic Church suggested eight amendments to the unified law for building houses of worship, and asked...
Date of source: Monday, October 17, 2011
Members of the 'Family House' initiative headed by the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and attended by representatives of the Egyptian church refused the draft law of the unified law for building houses of worship and agreed on the 2001 statute that regulates building mosques and asked for...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
A group of Coptic activists on Tuesday accused the cabinet and the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of ignoring Coptic rights.
The Maspiro Youth Union blamed interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf for “violence suffered by Copts.”
Date of source: Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Military police on Wednesday morning forcibly evacuated hundreds of Coptic demonstrators from the area outside the state TV building in Maspiro, where they were protesting an assault on an Aswan church.
Date of source: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Modern-day Jews are not God's chosen people, said Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, in a statement Wednesday evening.
"Do not believe their claims that they are God's chosen people, because it is not true," Shenouda said during his weekly sermon on Wednesday evening at...
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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.