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71. Meeting Dr. Jamāl Hāshim, expert population research CAPMAS on the number of Christians in Egypt
Date of source: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Dr. Jamāl Hāshim researches medicine. His work includes visiting bishoprics, asking about how they receive funds, and from whom. He also asks how they receive medicine and from whom. The census starting in 2006 no longer includes statistics about religious denominations.
Date of source: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Kamāl Zākhir, general coordinator of the laymen Copts movement, has stressed that his support of NGOs for Coptic second marriage and divorce does not mean that he is against the Orthodox Church. He did, however, assert that the resignations from the Coptic denomination flooding in from a huge...
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2011
Dr. Fatmah Sayīd Ahmad began the interview with Major General Abū Bakr al-Jindī, President of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), by asking that all the statistics that were prohibited former regime, related to the census of Christians and Nubians in Egypt, be made...
Date of source: Sunday, July 10, 2011
Following the January 25 revolution, migration came to occupy the minds of Coptic youth.
Egypt's Ecumenical Youth Committee, representing youth in the three Egyptian Coptic denominations, organized a forum on "Migration and Copts" on Tuesday (July 5, 2011) in Bishopric services in Anba Roweis...
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2011
In 1992, Mounir Saad, an Egyptian economist and editor-in-chief of Arab Business Report magazine, was meeting with the president of Austria when one of the president’s aides barged into the office, claiming that a major earthquake had just struck Cairo. The president replied by ordering a cable of...
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2011
“Through the past years, Copts faced many problems in practicing their religious rites due to the minimal number of churches in many places” says Īhab Ramzī, the author of the article.
Date of source: Friday, July 15, 2011
The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court ruled on July 3 that Christians who had converted to Islam but now wish to return to Christianity can be identified again as Christians on their national identification cards. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman says that the decision is an important step...
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2011
It is hard to estimate the number of Coptic Christians living abroad since Western countries do not register migrants and citizens by religion. Yet in the discussion about the total number of Copts and the effect of migration on the church in Egypt, one needs to be able to make an estimate. The...
Date of source: Friday, June 3, 2011
Is Islam responsible for the recent increase in sectarian violence against Coptic Christians? AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman responds in this week's editorial.
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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.