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Date of source: Sunday, December 10, 2017
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt said on Saturday, December 10, that it will not welcome U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during his visit to Egypt in light of the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Archbishop ʿAṭāllah Ḥannā of the Sibāsṭyā Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem criticized the American Christian Zionists’ “trick” of sacrificing Red Heifers, flatly rejecting these “misinterpretations” of the Holy Book that are adopted by Christian Zionist groups in the United States.
Date of source: Sunday, March 31, 2024
Amidst blockades, devastation, and restrictions aimed at disrupting the lives of Palestinians, Christians in Jerusalem are attending Easter mass amidst a war that has persisted for nearly six months. As the toll of Israeli bombardment echoes alongside church bells, the faithful gather to observe...
Date of source: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Christian churches following the Western calendar are celebrating Holy Saturday on March 30 with a mass to be led by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2024
Maḥmūd al-Habbāsh, an advisor to the Palestinian President, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās, and the Palestinian Authority’s Top Sharīʿa Judge and Advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs, condemned the “racist assault” by a group of “terrorist settlers” on a Christian monk in occupied Jerusalem. The assailants had...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II said that it is not correct to use old ways of thinking when it comes to solving current issues. Although they may have worked out well in the past, they are inapplicable in the present and since each era has its own needs and visions, it is therefore important for the individual...
Date of source: Thursday, November 9, 2023
A member of the Holy Synod’s Coptic History Committee, Coptic researcher Ibrāhīm al-Bājūshī, said the popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church have always been defending Jerusalem.
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2023
The Muslim Council of Elders, led by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, warned that the continued violations by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and the blessed al-Aqṣā Mosque could have grave consequences.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 16, 2023
The Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs in Palestine (HCC) urged the representatives and heads of churches, as well as the international community, to take whatever measures necessary to condemn Israel’s crimes and encroachments on the Christians’ sanctities and properties in...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
On Wednesday, al-Azhar condemned a raid on the al-Aqṣā mosque and on Palestinian worshippers by the “Zionist entity” as “a repeated act of terrorism”, decrying the silence of the international community which “pays only lip service to the protection of places of worship.”
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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.