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Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 2010
The story of Kāmīliyā Shihātah, the Dayr Mawās priest’s wife, who converted to Islam as Shaykh Abū Yahyá states.
In the article, Shaykh Abū Yahyá said that Kāmīliyā resorted to him to help her officially declare and register her conversion to Islam officially.
He tells the full story of this...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2010
The author claims that Poles Ramzy tends to take a legal action against the church accusing it of kidnapping Kamilia.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2010
Some Coptic thinkers accuse Father Makary Younan of practicing charlatanism, and describe the kidnappers of Kamilia as deceivers.
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 2010
Journalist ‘Antar talks about Shaykh Muhammad Farrāj’s confiscated book that contains information about Kāmīliyā Shihātah and other alleged converts to Islam, including Bishop Bīshūy’s sister. The book allegedly contains a handwritten story by Kāmīliyā about her conversion to Islam. It also...
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 2010
Islamic sources report two main reasons for the state security’s arrest of Shaykh Abū Yihyā and Khālid Harbī, head of the Islamic Centre for the resistance to Christianization. The first reason is to prevent them from testifying in the case of Kāmīliyā Shihātah’s conversion to Islam, whereas the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 2010
Leading Coptic figures discuss Pope Shenouda's decision to seclude himself in a monastery in Wādī al-Natrūn and cancel this year’s Christmas celebrations, which led to demonstrations at the ‘Abbāsiyyah Cathedral last Wednesday demanding President Husnī Mubārak’s attention.
Activist Būlus Ramzī...
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 2010
Coptic activist Būlus Ramzī told Sawt al-Ummah that the Pope only allows priests to join the ruling National Democratic Party. He says that the Church was outraged at Father Philopater Jamīl Rā‘ī for joining the al-Ghad Party and threatened to suspend him. He says that the Church supports the NDP...
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 2010
‘Antar calls Zakariyyā Butrus, Marqus ‘Azīz, Maurice Sādiq, and Nādir Fawzī four people “hated” by Egyptians. He says that they are banned from entering Egypt for various reasons, all related to trying to ruin Muslim-Coptic relations in Egypt and attempting to cause fitnah tā’ifīyah. Famous Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 2010
Al-Jam‘iyyāt al-Islāmiyyah lawyer Mamdūh Isma‘īl says that the recently shut down Islamic satellite channels were closed as a gift to the Coptic Orthodox Church to guarantee the Coptic vote in the upcoming elections. He further said that the channel Safā was shut down after responding to a Shiite...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2010
Similar to the Ketermaya incident, a Copt named Al-Ghūl Farhūt was stabbed to death by three Muslims in white robe who then proceeded to cut off his hands to prevent him from escaping on his motorcycle. Sawt al-Ummah spoke to his family, who predicts that the murderers' motives were either because...
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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.