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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: 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: Saturday, August 24, 2013
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch has urged Egyptian authorities to provide protection to Christian churches, organizations, and property and called on Islamists not to incite sectarian violence. The organization has blamed the authorities for not protecting Christians, especially as...
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: 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...
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
Al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah released a statement (August 18) in which it called upon the wise people in the Egyptian community as well as the human rights organizations to intervene to stop the massacres. News about the massacres security forces are committing against those jailed in Abū Za’bal prison...
Date of source: Sunday, September 8, 2013
Copts in the area of Dayr Mawās continue to ask for the intervention of security forces to stop the state of fear and terrorism in which they have been living since attacks began on August 14. Since then, more than 40 stores have been vandalized; the diocese buildings and church-related facilities...
Date of source: Friday, September 6, 2013
Egyptian churches condemned the assassination attempt on General Muhammad Ibrāhīm, Minister of Interior, and described it as “a cowardly criminal act and a surge in terrorist operations in Egypt”. They pointed out that the protection of the churches is substandard, but they trust that they are in...
Date of source: Thursday, September 5, 2013
The American organization, Open Doors, ranked Egypt as 25 among the world countries where Christians are persecuted, in 2013. It stated that it already collected 430,000 dollars in order to rebuild the burned churches and houses destroyed by extremists.
The American Center for Law and Justice...
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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.