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Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2013
After performing yesterday’s (Jan. 4) Friday prayers, youth members of various political forces and parties marched from ‘Umar Makram Mosque to the Coptic Evangelical Church of Qasr al-Dubārah to extend their Christmas greetings to Copts. Led by the imām of said Mosque, Shaykh Mazhar Shahīn, also...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Pope Tawadros spoke at the official opening for the 6th Conference for Coptology at the Clerical College at Virgin Mary Monastery in al Qūssīyah, Asyut Governorate. Pope Tawadros encouraged tourists to come and visit this Monastery, which is the oldest Monastery in the Christian world. The Orthodox...
Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2012
On the other hand, Maj. General al-Sayyīd al-Bura’ī, Asyut Governor, expressed his sorrow over the recent incidents that erupted in Asyut when a Christian student called Jamāl ‘Abdu Mas’ūd published images that defame Islam on his social networking media Facebook page.
[A report of the same...
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2012
Life came back to normal in the villages of al-‘Adar, Sallām and Manqabād in Asyut after days of violence and clashes between Muslims and Copts.
Maj. General Ya’qūb Hassan, Secretary-General of the Upper Egyptian governorate, paid a visit to the Manqabād Secondary School, in which the accused...
Date of source: Sunday, September 18, 2011
Yāsir al-Burhāmī, co-founder of salafī call [da'wah] warned people not to be attracted to liberalism and secularism which came from the corrupted-infidel Europe.
He added that if a liberal reaches power, they will acknowledge zoolatry, Theistic Satanism and the magus because this is the direction...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
On Wednesday April 13, the Muslim Brotherhood Murshid (Guide) Muhammad Badī’ announced that the MB would be capable of winning 75 percent of seats in Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
He stressed that the MB would nevertheless contain itself, competing for no more than a third of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Leaders of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmiyyah, Muslim Brotherhood, and Sūfīs prayed 'ishāh (nightfall) prayer inside an Evangelical Church in Asyut for the first time.
Further than that, Third Field Army Commander and Director of Security of the Suez governorate visited St. Mary's Church in the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 31, 2009
A reconciliation session was held in Minya to resolve a sectarian conflict. Meanwhile, the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Community Council in Asyut discuss the sectarian incidents that took place in Dayrūt.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Clashes have taken place between the monks of al-Muharraq Monastery in Asyut and a family over the ownership of a villa.
Date of source: Sunday, May 3, 2009
Revenge is taken after 70 years in the Upper Egyptian village of al-Matī‘ah in Assiut.
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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.