Displaying 41 - 50 of 80.
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
Furthermore, Egypt's embassies in 29 countries already started on Sunday, January 15, to apply the biometric visa on officials of those states wishing to visit Egypt out of the reciprocity principle after those countries imposed this visa on Egyptians.
The new measure applies to the Schengen...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
On the other hand, Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, amidst prayers of his well-wishers, left Cairo International Airport on Sunday, January 15, for the United States to undergo medical checkup at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Prior to his departure, the pope prayed for Egypt to surmount the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Under the title Documented, Accurate Figure – Census of Copts is 18.565.484 million, Mājid 'Attīyah writes in a column in Watanī newspaper of January 15 that Dr. Tharwat Basīlī has said he has a documented, accurate figure of the Coptic population in Egypt and that he challenges anyone who would...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
On the other hand, a number of Azhar scholars and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church vehemently rejected images showing U.S. soldiers urinating over the dead bodies of the Afghan Taliban Movement fighters, describing the act as "ugly, barbaric and violating respect for humans".
Muhammad Ra'fat '...
Date of source: Saturday, January 14, 2012
Counselor 'Āsim al-Juharī, the head of the anti-graft agency, referred complaints accusing Coptic business magnate Najīb Sawirus accusing him of "an inflated wealth in a dubious manner in light of his relations with the former regime.
The Būlāq Abū al-'Ilā Court of Misdemeanor is looking on...
Date of source: Thursday, January 12, 2012
"I refuse see politics separated from religion and I am not going to be a member of any political party on the grounds that I would deal with all Egyptian parties," said Hijāzī, adding the Islamic sharī'ah is the top guarantee for Christians to be assured about their religion.
He noted that he is...
Date of source: Saturday, January 14, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth says there is no doubt the Azhar under Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb is now playing its ordinary national role in association with the Coptic Church under Pope Shenouda III.
The two sides, along with the government, represented by Dr. al-Janzūrī, as well as...
Date of source: Thursday, January 12, 2012
An ultra-rightist member of the Dutch parliament plans to present parliamentary questioning of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands as soon as she returns from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where she put on a headscarf before entering a mosque there. ['Abd Allāh Mustafá from Brussels, al-Misrī al-...
Date of source: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Disparity was spotted amongst Egyptian churches over Copts' participation in the January 25, 2012 demonstrations, called by groups of political movements.
Some have called for boycotting these protests on the grounds that democratization is taking place in accordance with a set timetable laid by...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Meanwhile, Egypt retreated by four ranks on a list of countries mostly persecuting Christians, going up from the 19th to the 15th place due to growing sectarian violence in the aftermath of Arab Spring upheavals.
Egyptian Christians experienced a disastrous start to 2011 when a bombing at the...
Pages
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.