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Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2018
A celebration was held today for the launch of a book entitled ‘Al-Tafsīr al-ʿArabī lī al-Kitāb al-Muqqadas’ (Arabic Interpretation of the Holy Bible). On that occasion, Egypt’s former Minister of Culture and writer, Ḥilmī al-Namnam said that the unawareness of the others and their culture is a...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Egyptian Columnist Muḥammad Ḥamādīwrites this week:
“Copt” in the ancient Egyptian language means “ancient Egyptian” and therefore we are all Copts, we are all Egyptians.
The Egyptians have sensed the danger of sedition and division but the Egyptian people are standing tall and united throughout...
Date of source: Monday, January 1, 2018
The churches of Kafr el-Sheikh [Kafr al-Shaykh] witnessed the New Year Mass attended by hundreds of Egypt’s Christians, the Copts. The boy scouts, deacons, servants, priests were also present inside and outside the churches to serve the eucharist to worshippers coming from neighboring villages and...
Date of source: Monday, April 21, 2014
Shaykh al-Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib has delegated Dr. Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, Minister of Endowments, as a head of a delegation of the Azhar, Ministry of Endowments and Dār al- Iftāa’ shaykhs to visit Pope Tawadros in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Abāssiyah to congratulate him on the event of Easter
Date of source: Sunday, January 6, 2019
The imam of a mosque located near the Virgin Mary and St. Sergiūs Church of al-Haggāna village, east of Nasr City, Cairo, called the police after he discovered many explosive devices stored on the roof of his mosque. According to the imam’s report, he feared these explosive devices were targeted...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2019
On December 31, Egyptian President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī announced that a high counter-sectarian commission is to be formed and its work put immediately into effect. The presidential decree came after a police man shot dead a man and his son in Minya, which was the most recent incident after a...
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2018
Father Ghābryāl Hāshim, Director of the Department of Theological Affairs and Ecumenical Relations of the Middle East Council of Churches, said that Muslims and Christians have been living together in the Middle East for more than 15 centuries. He explained that this shared experience has unique...
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2014
‘Iffat al-‘Iryān, the husband of ‘Imān Marcos, known as the woman of Jabal al- Tayr that the leaders of the church sent his wife to an unknown place until things calm down in the village.
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2018
Al-Zanayqah village in Isnā, Luxor, was turned into some kind of a military barrack as a result of a tighter security to prevent mounting sectarian tensions between its Muslim and Christian residents. The tensions erupted when the Muslim and Christian mobs rallied the day before yesterday and were...
Date of source: Monday, December 31, 2018
France 24” a French news website shed light today on a decision made by President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to found a committee to handle the sectarian disputes. The French website quoted the official gazette of Egypt as saying the presidential decree came after a recent series of terrorist attacks...
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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.