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Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2011
Major General Mamdūh Muqalad, the head of the prosecution office in al-Minya governorate said that the Ministry of Interior Affairs are exerting its effort in three governorates (Cairo, Minya, and Asyut) to find two Christian women who disappeared in Nazlat 'Abdīn village in Minya on Sunday, June...
Date of source: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III assures that issuing a unified law for building houses of worship will affirm the concept of citizenship and equality between all Egyptian citizens. This came in a meeting with the leaders of Christian denominations in Egypt.
[Reviewer's Note: News story was also...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar and Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III co-appealed to all Egyptians to pay attention to all plots and rumors that pose threats to the nation's security and encumber its progress.
The two top Egyptian clerics, during a meeting of the Egyptian Family House, held at the St....
Date of source: Monday, May 23, 2011
A conciliatory meeting settled the conflict between Muslims and Copts who were disputing leaving a factory as a factory, and not in fact changing it to a church in Ayn Shams.
They decided to have recourse to justice in order to rule on this issue.
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Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2011
Najīb Jabrā’īl Mīkhā’īl, Legal Counselor of the Coptic Orthodox Church, said, that obligating Coptic Pope Shenouda III to be summoned in the court or prosecution to offer his testimony in Kāmīliyā Shihātah's case has no legal basis.
(Reviewer's Note: News story is also covered in al-Ahālī, page 1,...
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2011
According to the Egyptian Government they are working on building a modern civil and democratic state where all Egyptians, including Copts, will enjoy the rights of citizenship. However, people fear that if such a state is not created, the military will go on ruling Egypt, or a religious state will...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
This article reports on various sources, all denying that policeman ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, who allegedly shot dead a Copt and injured five others on a train, had any mental problems. According to Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufīd Shihāb this rules out any “sectarian motives behind the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
This article reports that Coptic Christmas celebrations on January 7 went about as usual, with no reports of any trouble. The holiday comes a week after a deadly church bombing in Alexandria.
Many Muslims also attended Christmas mass out of solidarity with their Christian countrymen.
In the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The tragic attack on the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter, in Alexandria has caused a drop in the sales of new clothes, food, and sweets--traditional items used by Copts to celebrate Christmas.
Many Coptic families cancelled their celebration plans after the attack in solidarity...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The remaining twenty-three Copts arrested during November clashes with police while protesting the stalled construction of an unathorized Coptic church building in Giza have been released.
Clashes began after security forces attemped to demolish a building in al-‘Umrāniyyah, saying that an...
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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.