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Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2012
Abrām Lewis, the founder of the Association of Victims of Abductions and Enforced Disappearances (AVAED), said AVAED will meet within the next few days with Dr. Tayīb and senior clerics of the Azhar to discuss the association’s demands to re-apply the guidance and advice sessions for Christian...
Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Meanwhile, Nādir al-Sirafī, the official spokesman of the 1938 Copts League, which advocates divorce and remarriage in Christianity, threatened to challenge the unconstitutionality of an article proposed by the church in the constitution that reads “non-Muslims may have recourse to their own...
Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2012
Bishop Danyāl of al-Ma'ādī, speaking after the mass held by Archpriest Raphael Ava Mina, Archpriest Pachomius al-Suryānī, Archpriest Seraphim al-Suryānī, Bishop Tawdrus of al-Beheira and Bishop Raphael of Central Cairo Churches, said that the candidates are not in a state of competition over the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Central Committee on National Awareness for Copts and the Priests Assembly in Alexandria launched a signature campaign calling for excluding the bishops running for the papal chair of Saint Mark to succeed Pope Shenouda III, who died in March.
Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Priest Philopater Jamīl of the Virgin Mary Church in ‘Izbit al-Nakhl area, northern Cairo, did a hatchet job on the regime of President Muhammad Mursī and accused him and the Muslim Brotherhood over a channel relaying from the United States of involvement in a bombing attack that targeted the Two...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Al-Watan reports that Copts have demanded that General ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī, Minister of Defense, promptly withdraws his decision to appoint Major General Hamdī Badīn as Egypt’s Military Attaché to China.
Badīn, former Commander of Military Police, faces accusations of allegedly playing a role in...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Expatriate Copt organizations staged protests at Egyptian embassies in a number of European capitals. The Dutch Coptic Association, headed by Bahā’ Ramzī, is at the top of these protests as it organized a protest at the Egyptian Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Date of source: Sunday, January 28, 2018
The Coptic Orthodox Church Media Center announced the organization of a photography contest on the occasion of special events that the church celebrates in 2018, such as the opening of the Nativity Cathedral in the new administrative capital, the centennial Jubilee of the Sunday schools, the golden...
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2012
Several Coptic rights advocates and movements, including the 1938 Copts League, which calls for divorce and re-marriage for Christians, are protesting today (Aug. 17) outside al-Ittihādīyah presidential palace to call for abolishing personal status laws as well as amendments introduced by late...
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Bishop Bula of Tantā and Chairman of the Clerical Council, said the Orthodox Church and General Bishop David of the United States are working out arrangements for an expected visit by President Mursī to New York on Wednesday (September 26).
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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.