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Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2022
The power of religion among the people of Egypt is great and widely recognized. This helped Islamists movements to overthrow the regime of President Ḥusnī Mubārak in 2011 and brought President Muḥammad Mursī to power in 2012-2013. But how to measure Egyptian religiosity? Previous presidents had to...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2022
The Vatican News website praised the good relation between President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and Christians in Egypt. Since al-Sīsī assumed the Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt in 2014, he has made several friendly gestures towards the local churches, especially the Coptic Orthodox Church,...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2021
Samīḥa Ayūb, the sister of Sāra Ayūb who was reported as a missing person streamed a live video on Facebook and spilled the beans. She said that she had obtained the birth certificate of her sister. As a result, she found out that Sāra is still Christian. Therefore, the videos of her sister that...
Date of source: Monday, December 20, 2021
A Coptic family cried for help to President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī after the disappearance of their daughter Sāra Tawfīq ʾAyūb. on December 12, 2021, the 21-year-old Christian girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances, while she was on her way to the church and meet her fiancé.
Date of source: Saturday, October 16, 2021
Sūhāj Cotps sent a distress call to President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to intervene immediately to release their sons who have been detained in Libya for 15 days.
Jirjis Khalīfa, brother of one of the detainees, said that the youths were detained or kidnapped from the Marāgha and Juhayna centers, and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2021
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, announced that the efforts made by President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, President of the Republic of Egypt, represent his unprecedented achievements in achieving sustainable development, creating new urban societies and achieving a “dignified life” [Ḥayāh Karīma] for citizens. He...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 2021
Dr. Rev. Andrea Zakī, President of the Evangelical Community and Head of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS), praised ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sisī’s declaration of making 2022 the year of Civil Society and launching a national strategy to promote human rights in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 2021
Munṣif Sulaymān, Legal Advisor to the Coptic Orthodox Church and member of the House of Representatives, announced the completion of reviewing the Family Law (Personal Status for Copts) in the Ministry of Justice. All sides have agreed on all articles of the draft law after 16 sessions that brought...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Pope Tawāḍrūs congratulated President ʿAbd al-Fatāḥ al-Sīsī for receiving the Leader's Order from the Arab parliament, legislative body of the Arab League, in the name of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The award honors the president for his efforts in serving the Arab world and resolving regional...
Date of source: Sunday, August 23, 2020
If not for the Egyptian public witnessing the hidden conflict between President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and Grand Imām of al-Azhar Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, the law regulating the Dār al-Iftāʾ, which the Egyptian parliament passed on June 19, would have passed without controversy. This conflict has entered...
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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.