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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, August 9, 2011
Dr. Sālim 'Abd al-Jalīl, Deputy Minister of Awqaf [Endowments] for Da'wah and preachers affairs, talked about the problems inside the Ministry, saying that security and business men like Ahmad 'Iz would interfere by bribing Imams to urge people to vote for them in the parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Sunday, July 31, 2011
Military experts have said that the Egyptian people will not accept the existence of an Islamic state. Major General Jamāl Maẓlūm (Gen.) said, "Whatever the percentage of participants [were Muslim] at the rally in Taḥrīr Square...I do not think that the people of Egypt are moving towards a...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Al-Azhar University President Osama al-Abd said Islamic law allows the families of the revolution’s martyrs to accept blood money in return for dropping their cases against police officers.
12. Azhar scholars, salafists, founded association to apply Shari'ah, implement Islamic Constitution
Date of source: Monday, July 4, 2011
Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, former muftī of the republic, along with 20 Azhar and salafī scholars formed an association called "Right for reforms association." The association's objectives include application of Islamic Shari'ah, direct Egyptians politically in the coming period, and forming an Islamic...
Date of source: Sunday, June 19, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Youth Anba Mūsá said the articles of the draft unified law on the construction of houses of worship are vague and has not changed anything of the old system known as the hamayuni law.
"The Orthodox Church will not unilaterally take a decision on behalf of all Copts...
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday preachers from different Cairo mosques focused yesterday on the events of fitnah of 'Ātfīh which Egypt's been witnessing lately. The preachers stressed the duty to protect Christians and their worship places as directed by Islamic sharī'ah.
In al-Rushdān mosque in Nasr City, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Archpriest Salīb Mattá Sawirus has rejected the expatriate Copts who attended a United States Congressional hearing on Thursday to discuss the alleged discrimination of Middle Eastern minority groups, according to al-Misrī al-Yawm.
Sawirus, a member of the Coptic Orthodox Community Council, said...
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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.