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Date of source: Monday, December 27, 2004
I had decided not to deal with the incidents that followed the disappearance of Wafā’ Costantine, the matter that aroused sectarian strife in Egypt. Yet I found that despite many analyses and discussions on the topic, people are still convinced that there is no sectarian strife and extremism...
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2004
This report explains the escalations following the alleged conversion of a priest’s wife to Islam. Much background is given to the cultural context that explain why such an issue is so sensitive in Egypt. The report also shows that several of the organizers of the demonstration in Cairo have done...
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
Several journalists consulted AWR for information about issues such as alleged conversions.
Date of source: Thursday, April 21, 2005
Another fit of anger is gripping the al-Malāk Church, al-Sharqīya governorate, after Samī Zakī ‘Awad, Ilyās Abu Rāmī, was reportedly kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam by the security authorities, in exactly the same fashion of groundless news reports that preceded the Wafā’ Costantine...
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
The same old boring
story is repeated over and over again. Despite proven groundless and fabricated, many reiterate the serial of kidnapping
Christian girls in collusion with the State security apparatus.
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Emigrant Copts alleged 19-year-old Christian girl, Nivīn Māhir was forced to convert to
Islam. They went as far as inciting the Copts of Egypt to manifest in every possible peaceful way; hunger strikes, marching
in protests in front of international organizations, the Republican Palace, the...
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
A Christian citizen brought suit against the grand Shaykh of the Azhar on the pretext that he lured his
daughter to convert to Islam and to leave her family’s house and stay with a Muslim.
Date of source: Thursday, June 23, 2005
Rose al-Yousuf writes that Egyptian grassroots are not interested in demonstrations of the Kifāya movement.
Critique on an article about a Christian family alleging that the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar was involved in luring their daughter to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
The author writes about using force in conversions and reconversions. The author does not mention Wafa’ Costantine but this article is clearly about her.
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
The procedures taken to keep whoever converts to Islam inside the monasteries will have serious repercussions leading to the spread of secret Islam inside the Church. Certainly there will be secret contacts between the new converts and this will in turn create intra anti-Church groups and networks.
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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.