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Date of source: Thursday, June 13, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II met with leaders of Egyptian churches and Coptic figures on Jun. 11 to determine the Church's position on June 30 anti-government demonstrations and discuss their possible aftermath. The Church agreed to allow Copts to participate in a various activities during the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Majdī Sābir, media spokesman for the Maspero Youth Union, said that Presidency contacted the Papacy to put pressure on Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to encourage people not participate in the June 30 demonstrations. Sābir called President Muhammad Mursi's (Mūrsī) recent decision on church...
Date of source: Friday, April 26, 2013
The Coptic Orthodox Church has begun preparing for Easter celebrations amid concerns surrounding the invitation of government officials to attend the celebrations in the light of recent attacks upon the Church. Archbishop Sergius Sergius, Deputy of the Patriarchate for Administrative Affairs, said...
Date of source: Saturday, June 8, 2013
Copts are divided following President Muhammad Mursi's (Mursī) decision to license the construction of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul in New Nūbārīyah in al-Beheira governorate. The Church welcomed President Mursi's decision, and asked him to consider...
Date of source: Friday, June 7, 2013
In his first decision to build a new church, President Muhammad Mursi (Mursī) has licensed the establishment of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul in New Nūbārīyah city in al-Beheira governorate. The Church welcomed the decision, and asked from the Presidency to...
Date of source: Sunday, May 26, 2013
The largest meeting of heads of Churches between West, led by Vatican Pope Francis I, and the East, led by Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, inaugurates a new era in the history of inhabited relations between the oldest and the most important churches in world, despite the 1977 radical disagreement...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The U.S. State Department's 2012 annual report on religious freedoms highlighted the continuing sectarian violence demonstrates the failure of the Egyptian government to prevent sectarian division developing, and to conduct investigations into crimes committed against members of religious...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Civil protection forces managed to control a massive fire which erupted in Virgin Mary Church in Tamā, the oldest church in Sohag governorate, yesterday morning (May 20). The fire spread to four neighboring Coptic houses and dozens of people were injured and suffered from suffocation whilst trying...
Date of source: Friday, April 5, 2013
Al-Qalyūbīya security forces, with the assistance of the intelligence services, seized the men accused of kidnapping a child, Abānūb Ashraf, from in front Saint Paul Church in Shubrā al-Khaymah (Qalyubia governorate) amid gunfire. The investigation uncovered that the five perpetrators distracted...
Date of source: Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Associated Press stated that, in the light of the arrest of Coptic teacher Dimīyānah 'Abd al-Nūr for disdaining religion, Egypt is witnessing a violent trend of similar allegations that have been launched by Islamists against all who criticize them, especially the Christians. It added that the...
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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.