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Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A group of Coptic businessmen in Stockholm established an investment company in order to start a bank. International Egypt One Bank was launched with an initial capital of 100 million Euros with shareholders from Egyptians living all over the world, including Lebanon and Syria. Managing Director...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Dozens of Copts gathered yesterday outside the ‘Umrāniyyah Church to protest its delayed construction. The protestors were reportedly protected by twelve central security vehicles. Giza Governor Sayyid ‘Abd al-‘Azīz met with a delegation of priests to discuss a solution to the problem and...
Date of source: Friday, November 5, 2010
Despite al-Qā‘idah threatening to destroy Egyptian churches, Pope Shenouda III’s weekly meeting went on as planned. As opposed to the regular five thousand attendees, this week’s meeting only saw two thousand, all of which underwent intense security checks. The pope went on to call the threats a...
Date of source: Friday, October 29, 2010
The “Egypt for All Egyptians” festival, which was set to take place at the Azhar Park today was cancelled following orders by the State Security. The organizing “Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination” group said that the order to cancel the festival, which was intended to oppose sectarian...
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 2010
Many Egyptians living abroad were happy with Minister of Manpower ‘Ā‘ishah ‘Abd al-Hādī’s announcement of the government’s intentions to allow them to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections. However, the immigration adviser to the Minister of Manpower, Hānī ‘Azīz, said that people with dual...
Date of source: Sunday, August 23, 2009
This Watanī article reviews some experts, thinkers, and legal experts’ opinions on the necessity of the immediacy of issuing a unified law for building places of worship in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
On the difficulties encountered by Copts seeking to pray in villages that do not have a proper church
Date of source: Sunday, June 28, 2009
The Department of Civil Status starts issuing birth certificates carrying the village name of Abū
Hinnis.
Date of source: Sunday, November 9, 2008
The author writes about the planned new church and social service center on land belonging to the Bishopric. The building was denied by authorities after a long delay and the land was usurped by a previous owner. The people of Mit-Namā still wait for approval to build their much needed church.
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2008
The article discusses the alleged kidnapping of individuals to force them to convert, and focuses on a few individual’s accounts.
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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.