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Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2013
Pope Tawadros assured that the Church welcomes any person that wants to attend the Christmas mass and requests an invitation, but it shall not distribute invitations to anyone. He added that he appreciates the role of the state institutions in securing the Churches (Nādir Shukrī, Watanī, Dec. 29, p...
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2013
Watanī reports about the weaknesses and problems of reconciliation sessions that Copts recently have had to sit for in Badrmān and Nazlit ‘Ābid. It stated that in the absence of rule of law Copts are forced to sit in these sessions (Nādir Shukrī, Watanī, Dec 15. p. 8) Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2013
In the absence of swift justice and rule of law, a number of Egyptian governorates witnessed assaults on Christians and their properties over the last week.
Archbishop ‘Abd al-Quddūs of Al-Fishn Diocese in Beni Suef stated that a group of thugs attacked and demolished part of an old house annexed...
Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2017
Egyptian actress Munā Zakī launched, through her personal account on Twitter, a hashtag named “I Am Egyptian, the Cross Does Not Offend Me.” This represented Zakī’s objection to the idea of banning the placing of the Cross on churches as a part of the draft law on building churches in Egypt,...
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2017
Tomorrow (Tuesday) marks the first day of the Dutch Coptic Organization’s Annual Conference, in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. The conference is titled “Modern Egypt Under the Shadow of the Contempt of Religions Law.” The conference will be attended by a selection of thinkers and...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The United States of America's Embassy in Cairo was able to convince some Coptic figures and clerics to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Numerous dignitaries boycotted the meeting Clinton had during her visit to Egypt, in protest against U.S. support for the Muslim Brotherhood.
While...
Date of source: Sunday, November 6, 2011
Military ruler approved the appeal of victims' families of Naj' Hammādī massacre, which resulted in the death of seven Copts and a police officer, and will retry both al-Qirshī Abū al-Hajāj, second suspect, and Nidāwī Sayīd Muhammad, third suspect. Both have been acquitted from the case where al-...
Date of source: Sunday, November 6, 2011
The Military prosecution decided to renew the custody of 31 suspects in Maspero incidents (case number:855, East Cairo Military Criminal Court, known as Maspero incidents).
In the same case, the court rejected the appeal on remanding the blogger 'Alā' 'Abd al-Fatāh, who has been in custody for 15...
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2011
A decree criminalizing discrimination has been issued but is it really going to be applied to hardliners spreading fanaticism, extremism and hatred through the media or will it be applied only to the weak (Copts)? wonders Nādir Shukrī in an opinion article in Watanī.
Date of source: Monday, October 31, 2011
Head of the Coptic Christian Church Pope Shenouda III today decided to cancel the celebration of his 40th year as Pope to stand in solidarity with martyrs’ families.
The Pope decided to cancel the celebration both because of the poor situation in Egypt and because the Copts recently lost 23 of...
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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.