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Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2004
The Coptic issue is one of the most important in the Egyptian question’s political file. Copts’ political, religious and cultural demands have been a pressing issue of tension. The inter-Coptic discourse, some of which can be spotted in the writings of some Coptic Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic...
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Tuesday, January 1, 2002
The article gives the opinion of Nabil Luka Bebawy concerning the problems facing Copts in Egypt and how to solve them. Bebawy believes that among the problems facing Copts in Egypt are the Hamayouni Law for building churches, the appointment of Copts in senior positions, the fact that the Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
The church of Anba Antonius in Munqatin, Minya, is still waiting for an official license to use their church building for worship. Coptic villagers built the church in 1991 after 13 years of failed attempts to obtain an official license to built a church in their village. Security authorities...
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
When terrorist attacks erupted in 1996 in Minya, the chief of security told the priest of the church of Archangel Mikhail in Assiut, that for security reasons it was necessary to build a higher wall around the church and replace its old wooden doors with new ones. Other parts of the church were...
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2001
The Church of the Holy Virgin in Beni Suef got the state security approval for the erection of a new roof. Also a presidential decree to the effect that the church was licensed to replace the old timber roof with a new concrete one was issued. But when the renovation work started, security forces...
Date of source: Sunday, July 22, 2001
The Church of St. John the Baptist, in Assiut, and the Evangelical Church of Abu Hammad, in Al-Sharqiya, were given restoration licenses by the governor of Assiut and the town council of Abu Hammad, respectively. However, security forces intervened and stopped the restoration works in the two...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Archpriest Salib Matta Saweris said that the expelled monk committed sins and should be punished according to Egyptian criminal law as any Egyptian citizen. He denied that his crime took place in the monastery or that some emigrant Copts were behind what was published in Al-Nabaa. He believed that...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
Legal accountant Mr. Mustafa Abaza explained on March 31, 2001 the differences between the official and informal way of buying property in Egypt. The bishop used the informal way. Bishop Marcos agreed with Abaza’s description but added that in the area of this building there are "no legal...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
Both the governor of Qalyubiya and the bishop of Shubra el-Kheima provided us with documents to support their arguments. We have translated the 11 documents, and placed them in chronological order. In this order it is important to distinguish between the period before March 1 (the oral permit of...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2001
Translation of an official document provided by H.E. Adli Hussein, the governor of Qalyubiya on March 20, 2001.
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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.