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Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The Secretary of the Papal Council for Dialogue has delivered a letter from the Vatican Pope to the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb. The letter assures the will of the Vatican to resume dialogue between both sides. He also assured that Al-Azhar seeks the amendment of the previous...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Churches and Copts have approved of the draft constitution and described it as a consensual and satisfactory constitution. Kamāl Zākher, the founder of the Coptic secular stream, stated that draft constitution is acceptable to a certain extent in light of the circumstances the country is going...
Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2013
Al-Minya governor, Salāh Ziyādah, accused the Muslim Brotherhood of starting the sectarian strife (fitnah) in the villages of the governorate. He stated that what Morsi’s regime has implanted is the cause of these events. He assured that the security situation in Badrmān is now stable (Ashraf Kamal...
Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2013
A second Copt was killed in Badrmān in al-Minya. Security forces have arrested three defendants in sectarian skirmishes in al-Minya. Bishop Sarabamon Agban, the caretaker of the Mar Girgis Church in Badrmān, has held the security responsible for their absence and the delay in arriving to the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 30, 2013
Two Copts were injured due to the renewal of the clashes between Copts and Muslims in al-Badrmān village in al-Minya as a continuation of the conflict that left a Muslim man dead two days ago (November 28). Families of Hiwārtah, Badrmān, and Nazlit ‘Ābid have held burial ceremonies for four of the...
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
The Angolan Ambassador to Egypt has denied the news reports claiming that his government has taken measures against freedom of worship. He assured that Angola respects the freedom of belief and Islam. He explained if there has been a case or two of mosque closures or demolitions this due to the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 16, 2014
On Friday, November 29, an article appeared in al-Fath, an independent Salafī newspaper, written by reporters Tāriq Bahgat and Walīd Mansūr. [1] The article reports on the discussion that took place between Bishop Bola, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Constituent Assembly,...
Date of source: Thursday, November 28, 2013
The closed session for the Constituent Assembly has witnessed tension amidst the threat of the Nūr and Church representatives to pull out due to the difference over inserting the phrase of “sharī’ah principles” in the Preamble of the Constitution. Bishop Bola the representative of the Orthodox...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Representative of the Coptic Evangelical Church in the Constituent Assembly, Rev. Safwāt al-Bayādī, stated that the article interpreting sharī’ah principles has been cancelled and will not be included in the new Constitution. He also added he will not accept any interpretation of sharī’ah...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Azhar sources have assured that the representatives of Al-Azhar have threatened to pull out of the Constituent Assembly after the attempts to diminish the concept of sharī’ah in the Constitution’s Preamble in addition to the persistence to add the phrase “civic (secular) state” (Khālid Mūsá, al-...
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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.