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Date of source: Friday, March 11, 2011
Investigations continued into the events that occurred in al-Muqattam area, which resulted in the killing of thirteen civilians and wounding one hundred and forty others. Many Christians' homes were burned in the area as well as a number of storages which residents use to store garbage materials.
Date of source: Friday, March 11, 2011
In an attempt to calm the escalating events of 'Ātfīh, the Ministry of Awqaf (endowments) decided to unify Friday sermons around the subject of national unity.
Pope Shenouda returned to Egypt after a health treatment visit to the United States. He asked both [Christians and Muslims] religions...
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday preachers from different Cairo mosques focused yesterday on the events of fitnah of 'Ātfīh which Egypt's been witnessing lately. The preachers stressed the duty to protect Christians and their worship places as directed by Islamic sharī'ah.
In al-Rushdān mosque in Nasr City, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah...
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali presents a press review covering three days: March 11, 14, and 15, 2011, where news focused on the rebuilding of the church of the Two Martyrs, Saint Mina and Saint George in Sūl village of 'Ātfīh (Helwan governorate) and the victims of the clashes between Muslims and...
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2011
Egypt's army said it started yesterday (March 13, 2011) rebuilding a church that was set ablaze last week in the village of Sūl.
The rebuilding began as thousands of Coptic protesters continued their sit-in outside the Egyptian Radio and Television Union for the ninth day in a row. The Supreme...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
'Abd al-Wahāb Sha'bān from al-Wafd relates his journey to Sūl village in 'Ātfīh.
As soon as he arrived at the village he felt that it was a big mystery. Sha'bān found 'spell papers' being circulated among the residents, assuring that they were found inside the church.
Sha'bān writes that this is...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Last night, a number of disappointing events took place when Copts demonstrators stood in front of the Egyptian television building [Maspero], intercepted October 6 bridge and prevented cars from crossing which created a traffic crisis.
Hundreds of the demonstrators joined in to destroy cars...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Hundreds of salifīs and religious associations demonstrated in front of the Council of State, Tuesday evening, demanding the release of Kāmīliyā Shihātah, the wife of a priest from a church in Minya, as well as Wafā’ Costantine and a number of other [claimed] abducted Muslim women.
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2011
Copts are seen protesting yesterday outside the Egyptian Radio and Television Union on the Nile Corniche for the seventh day in a row, after angry Muslims demolished a church in a village in Helwan Governorate when a romance between a Coptic man and a Muslim woman came to light.
A source close to...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
More than one thousand protesters, Muslims and Christians, gathered in-front of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Tuesday evening for a second day to condemn the attacks against the church of Two Martyrs in 'Ātfīh.
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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.