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Date of source: Sunday, August 18, 2013
Interim President Adlī Mansūr has issued a decree to put the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on the Egyptian List of Terrorist Organizations and to put on trial everyone before a military court, who is proven a member of the organization. Furthermore, assets and offices of the MB inside Egypt shall be...
Date of source: Monday, August 26, 2013
Bishop Makarios, General Bishop of al-Minya, confirmed again that Egyptian Copts will not seek refuge abroad and will not seek Western support despite the burning of a large number of churches. He said that he has not yet finished assessing the final losses. He stated that the retaliation of the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 15, 2013
The June 30 Revolution came to restore normalcy and Copts’ rights in a democratic civil state and a home country where religious discrimination has no place. Politicians and jurists agree that the most important point the Copts have on the new constitution is the preservation of the “civil (secular...
Date of source: Saturday, September 14, 2013
The human rights activist Tāriq al-'Awdī from the Front for the Defense of the Protesters of Egypt has revealed the composition of the delegation of lawyers and political activists who are to visit Daljā village the coming Thursday to find out the truth about the situation in the village since June...
Date of source: Friday, September 13, 2013
‘Amr Mūsá, President of the Constituent Assembly, visited Pope Tawadros II in his headquarters in St. Mark's Cathedral yesterday (Wednesday). The Pope demanded the abolition of Article 219 of the Constitution of 2012, which prescribes sharī’ah. The meeting lasted nearly 25 minutes. Bishop Bola, who...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The Cairo Center for Development and Human Rights said in a statement issued August 19 that Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Beni Suef have displayed three nuns from the Franciscan School in the streets as prisoners of war. Two women were also humiliated and sexually harassed when they confronted...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Bishop Ramiya, General Bishop and President of the Coptic Cultural Center, announced on behalf of the Orthodox Church the Church’s first assessment of attacks on Copts and churches by the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies since last Wednesday (August 14), up to the day before yesterday (August 19...
Date of source: Thursday, August 29, 2013
Inhabitants of several towns and villages of Minya live in fear after they discovered that the “x”-sign has been drawn on several stores belonging to Copts. The “x”-sign usually appeared on shops and pharmacies of Copts in Minya city before they were set on fire. Copts demand security protection of...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 27, 2013
U.S. Senators have submitted a new bill for better protection of Copts and other religious minority’s rights in Egypt and the Middle East (also known as the Special Envoy Bill).
Republican Senator, Roy Blunt, handed in the bill together with a number of other notable Congress members from both...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Yesterday, the Council of Ministers asked to resolutely oppose every attempt of disseminating discrimination and diffuse the fitnah among society. Further, the council affirmed its condemnation of every form of violence or incitement that leads to divisions among the citizens. All citizens appealed...
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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.