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Date of source: Friday, May 9, 2014
Al- Sīsī’s statements in which he said he is “a Muslim who loves his religion” has angered the secularist movements and Coptic activists who stated that he should not have made such a statement.
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2018
The Ismā’īliya Cinema Club presents short movies as part of preparations for the 20th edition of the its International Film Festival for short and documentary films.
Date of source: Sunday, February 25, 2018
The media expert and author Ḥamdī Rizk said that Copts are both Muslim and Christian Egyptians stressing that his book titled ‘Kyrie eleison, fī Ḥub al-Aqbāṭ’ (Kyrie Eleison, in the love of Copts), is directed not only at Christians, as most of the readers who bought the book are Muslims. “Love...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 7, 2014
The Maspero Youth Union is currently putting the final touches on the “Citizenship Document” in which they specified the problems that Copts are facing.
Date of source: Friday, October 19, 2018
Spokesman of Egypt’s Cabinet Nādir Saʿd stated that in response to the application submitted by the Church Regularization Committee, the Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī has ordered to ease the regularization procedures for unlicensed churches.
According to the Prime Minister, the status of 120...
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: Friday, October 17, 2014
A young girl and her mother proclaimed to convert to Islam. While the mother was changing her and her daughter’s documents, the father was travelling to Kuwait and became angry because, even if it was the free will of his wife to convert, there must be a law that protects the child and he...
Date of source: Monday, April 28, 2014
The phenomena of attacks launched against Copts and their belongings and lives have reemerged. This is happening especially after a number of fatwás have been issued against them and in some hot areas such as Minya, Qena, Sohag and Aswan. These places have witnessed attacks against Copts in the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 6, 2019
In an aired call-in show on Egyptian TV, the Egyptian Christian architect responsible for the construction of the new mosque of the administrative capital, Joseph Farīd, said that he does not perform his job as architect according to religious affiliations, and that the al-Fattāḥ al-ʿAlīm Mosque is...
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...
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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.