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Date of source: Sunday, October 14, 2012
The papal nominations committee on Saturday (October 13) settled on a final list of candidates vying over the chair of Saint Mark in succession of Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who passed away on March 17, 2012.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2012
Nājī Mikā’īl, a member of the FJP, said that the party decided to have 30 church leaders on their party lists during the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
The leaders of the three churches appealed to all Egyptians – Muslims and Christians – to go to the polling stations and play their part in shaping the political future of Egypt. [‘Imād Khalīl, Hamdī Qāsim and Yāsir Shimīs, al-Misrī al-Yawm, June 17, p. 10] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
The leaders of the three churches appealed to all Egyptians – Muslims and Christians – to go to the polling stations and play their part in shaping the political future of Egypt. [‘Imād Khalīl, Hamdī Qāsim and Yāsir Shimīs, al-Misrī al-Yawm, June 17, p. 10] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Father Rafīq Greish, the official spokesman for the Coptic Catholic Church, said the opinions by youths are totally different from their families’ thanks to the fact that candidates are varied.
Dr. Andrea Zakī, the deputy head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, said Egyptians’ participation in the...
Date of source: Friday, April 27, 2012
“We want the constitutional assembly be representative of all segments of the Egyptian people. Copts have demands they want be clearly spelled out in the constitution, including a text confirming the civil nature of the state that would guarantee everyone the right of belief and free practice of...
Date of source: Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) overwhelming success in the Teachers Syndicate election was a blow to remnants of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP), claimed 'Isām al-'Iryān, the vice president of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, at a popular rally in Beni Suef on Friday (...
Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood’s attempt to reconcile Sūfīs and salafists on Saturday, April 9, has failed.
Sūfī representative Shaykh Ahmad Sibā’ī refused to sign any settlement paper that does not explicitly refer to the demolition of shrines as harām [forbidden according to Sharī’ah].
Salafī...
Date of source: Monday, December 27, 2010
The Cairo Airport Authority is taking precautionary measures to ensure the safety of hundreds of Jews coming from Israel to take part in Mawlid celebrations that commemorate the death of Abū Hasīrah Ibn Ya‘qūb, a 19th century Jewish rabbi whose shrine is in Beheira.
The "Over My Land They Won't...
Date of source: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Muhammad Mustafá Tīranīlī has sent al-Mahmūdīyah prosecution documents that prove that he own the Greek Orthodox Church in Rosetta.
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.