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Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
According to al-Qāhirah, Sunnī and Shī‘ah Iraqis living in Copenhagen, Denmark have agreed to jointly issue a fatwá making it a sin to use violence against Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq.
A priest identified as Andrew White [name transliterated from Arabic] from the Evangelical...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘ runs a report on page 20, in which it claims to have had access to the dossier of the Samallūt train shootings, including the texts of letters exchanged between psychiatrists and police medical authorities.
These revealed that the accused, ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, had first been examined...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
On Sunday, an emergency tribunal sentenced Hammām al-Kamūnī to death for his part in last year’s slaying of seven people outside a church in the Upper Egyptian town of Naj‘ Hammādī. * Egyptian newspaper coverage of the court ruling continued on Tuesday, but on a more limited scale than in previous...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Al-Misrī al-Yawm reports on page one that seven Christians injured in the Alexandria church attack early on New Year’s Day, left for further medical treatment in Munich, Germany on Monday. The treatment is being paid for by the Egyptian state.
[Similar reports appeared in al-Ahrār, Rose al-...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Last Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer allegedly shot six Coptic Christians who were travelling on a train in Samallūt, a small town in the southern Egyptian province of Minya. An elderly man died in the attack.
While some government officials have been quoted in various reports as...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Egyptian newspaper coverage of the attack on the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter was limited on Monday, with most reports focusing on the ongoing investigation and corresponding statements given by high level officials concerning those responsible....
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday’s Egyptian newspapers once again focused heavily on the Naj‘ Hammādī incidents of 2010...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
Two weeks after the attack on the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter, Egyptian newspapers continued their coverage of the ensuing investigation...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2011
Egyptian Endowments Minister Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq and Gregorius III, Patriarch of Antioch, All the East and Alexandria and Jerusalem, met on Saturday to discuss the recent quarrel following the Vatican pope’s call for improved protection of Middle Eastern Christians in light of the recent church...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2011
Egyptian newspapers dedicated much of their Sunday coverage to ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, the man accused of killing one Christian and injuring five others on a train in southern Egypt last Tuesday...
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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.