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Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
The Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs in Palestine (HCC) has condemned an attempt by Israeli extremists to assault the St. Eliās Church of the Greek Catholic Church in Ḥaifā.
Date of source: Saturday, July 15, 2023
The National Council for Women (NCW) confirmed that the rate of female circumcision in Egypt has plummeted thanks to growing awareness that the practice is a crime and has nothing to do with religion or medicine. They added that credit for this goes to the state, the NCW, and the National Council...
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2023
The Public Relations Committee of the Holy Synod held its annual conference under the title 'Contemporary Challenges in Egyptian Society' from Thursday 20th April to Saturday 22nd, at St. Mark’s Conference House in al-Khaṭāṭba. The conference was attended by the Metropolitan of Naqāda and Qūṣ,...
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2023
The Egyptian National Dialogue held a meeting with leaders of rights organizations in Egypt to discuss issues related to the Egyptian human rights movement. The meeting was held within the National Dialogue’s current focus on working to create a positive atmosphere to effectively foster dialogue....
Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2019
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery commemorates the United Nations’ 1949 ratification of the Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others and aims to shed light on contemporary forms of slavery. Recent books from authors...
Date of source: Friday, February 3, 2023
In a period of fewer than two days, the American, French, German, and Italian embassies sent warnings to the embassies of Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland, saying that these countries’ nationals might be subjected to retaliatory attacks by “Islamists”, particularly in Turkey, after a...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2023
Dr. ʾIbrāhīm Najm, a senior advisor to Egypt’s Grand Muftī, has reviewed the efforts of the Dar al-Iftāʾ in combating extremism, during a meeting with a delegation from the European Parliament, led by Tomáš Zdechovský. He cited the various initiatives enacted by the Dar al-Iftāʾ to confront...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
The Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Manpower Committee, Sūlāf Darwīsh, has praised comments made by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, about the misuse of the term ‘freedoms’ by the West. Dr. al-Ṭayyīb had stated that the world was in need of religion to help solve the...
Date of source: Monday, December 19, 2022
On Monday, the Coptic Evangelical Organization’s Forum for Dialogue of Cultures organized a conference entitled “Towards a Citizenship Supportive of Cultural Diversity”. The first session was opened by Samīra Luqā, the lead official in the dialogue department of the Coptic Evangelical Organization...
Date of source: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Dr. Maya Morsī, President of the National Council for Women, said that the national initiative for smart green projects is a pioneering effort in urgent areas, as it seeks to achieve sustainable development goals and address climate change. In her speech, Dr. Morsī emphasized that Egyptian women...
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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.