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Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2006
More discussion on the second article of the Egyptian constitution, which reads: "Islam is the religion of the state and Arabic its official language. Islamic jurisprudence is the principal source of religion.”
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2007
A 20 year old woman who converted to Islam sent a letter to President Husnī Mubārak in which she asks him to protect her from her family.
Date of source: Friday, March 17, 2006
Christians who convert to Islam then change their minds and want to return to Christianity face legal problems concerning the religion category on their national identity cards.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Fātima talks about her life as a Muslim in the U.S and explains how she perceives Islam and its preaching, as well as her own view about the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Metropolitan Abba Seraphim’s critique of a paper by Bishop Munīr on the relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions.
Date of source: Thursday, September 15, 2005
A paper presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions that prompted criticism from Metropolitan Seraphim for the portrayal of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
The author argues that while Copts are demanding the application of rulings by the Administrative Court requiring the Interior Ministry to print new identity cards for Christian converts, Pope Shenouda has refused to apply the rulings of the same court concerning remarriage for Coptic divorcees.
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005
The author argues that the government wanted to close the matter of the conversion of Wafā’ Qustantīn, a Coptic Orthodox priest’s wife, to Islam as quickly as possible without considering the possible repercussions which could breach citizens’ right to choose their religious belief according to...
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
A recent letter from Watani reader Mr. Nabil Mahmoud Wali took me back to the Problems on Hold file. Under the title “Egypt’s maligned Copts,” Mr Wali wrote on a taboo issue—that of religious conversion in Egypt
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
A report following discussions with young Copts in Germany claiming they had been discriminated and persecuted in Egypt.
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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.