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Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, the Patriarch of Alexandria, said that his current pastoral visit to the United States is not related to the upcoming visit of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to New York to attend the meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations, noting that the program of the pastoral...
Date of source: Monday, March 31, 2014
Security forces in Beni Suef succeeded in convening a reconciliation session between Copts and Muslims in Diābiah Village which was attended by family heads and senior figures in the village. The conflict took place in November 2013 due to a construction of a road bump and led to 16 injuries and...
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Dr. Mahmūd Abū al-Nasr, Minister of Education, has visited the Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School in Heliopolis, Cairo, after the school has received terrorist threats. The minister has visited the school to reassure the students and parents (Nivīn Shihātah, al- Ahrām, March 27). Read original...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 20, 2018
On the occasion of al-Mawlid al-Nabawīy, or the Birth of the Prophet Muḥammad, offices of the Ministry of Endowments [Awqāf] organize festivities thought the country’s governorates. The Egyptian Christians do not miss to convey their sentiments of congratulations, manifested in different ways to...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2018
Experts in the Coptic Case believe that the visit of the Diocesan Bishop Murquṣ of Shubrā al-Khayma to Saudi-Arabia at this particular point of time, might bear more than one message. Beside the purpose of the visit as pastoral for the Coptic congregation living and working in the Arabian monarchy...
Date of source: Friday, February 28, 2014
In al-Marāghah, Suhag, the hometown of the seven Christian Egyptians who were killed in Libya, seven Muslim families decided to postpone their sons’ weddings in solidarity with the families of the victims. Furthermore, thousands of Muslims went to churches raising slogans in support of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Dr. Ahmad Karīmah, professor at al-Azhar, also condemned the recent terrorist attack in Tābā and said that the attack aimed to damage Egypt’s economy, similar to what happened in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Dr. ‘Abd al-Hādī al-Qasabī, head of the Supreme Council of Sūfī Orders, described the perpetrators as...
Date of source: Saturday, August 23, 2014
A number of Muslims in the Daqūf Village in Samalūt has saved yesterday the Church of Virgin Mary in the village from a fire due to an electrical spark.
Date of source: Saturday, February 1, 2014
The head of external relations at the Patriarchate of Moscow, Metropolitan Ilarion, expressed the appreciation of the Russian Orthodox Church for the position of the Egyptian leadership concerning Copts in Egypt (Author not mentioned, al- Akhbār, Feb. 1, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Pictures of young Muslim veiled girls cleaning the inside of a church in Minya Upper-Egypt circulated the social networking sites.
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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.