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Date of source: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
On January 29, following four days of massive popular demonstrations and the withdrawal of police personnel throughout the country, the military has been deployed on Egyptian soil, keeping the peace and maintaining neutrality during the political crisis. On February 11, following the resignation of...
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2011
My fifteen years living in Egypt has given me a lot of connections, including Egyptian diplomats, who are now providing me with stories about current developments in Egypt. It is very common among diplomats that they are ready to give visitors an off the record insight in what is happening in their...
Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2011
Full Title: An Appeal to the Supreme Council of the Valiant Armed Forces And a Clarification of the Circumstances Surrounding what Took Place on the Morning of Wednesday, February 23.
The official statement of Monks of the Monastery of the Great Saint Anbā Bīshūy at Wādī al-Naṭrūn about the attack...
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2011
Editor: An army unit destroyed quickly built walls near the Monastery of Saint Bīshūy, each half-a-kilometer beyond the existing wall, and installed a new metal gate. This was done without any building permit.
Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2010
Pope Shenouda postponed returning from Monastery of Saint Bīshūy (Dayr Anbā Bīshūy) in Wādī al-Natrūn that was scheduled in Sunday December 12, 2010.
Pope didn't state the time of his arrival but its expected that it will be before his well-known weekly sermon in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2010
Muhsin 'Arīshī quotes observers who believe that influential bishops in Coptic Orthodox Church have dismissed Jesus' message of peace.
Moreover, security authorities and moderate copts are debating the reason coptic radicals decided to follow the example of Muslim fundamentalists attempting to take...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr says that the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee has turned down a challenge by the Giza Bishopric to reverse the decision to stop construction at the disputed church site.
The report says the previous meeting of the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee had postponed its decision so that the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The remaining twenty-three Copts arrested during November clashes with police while protesting the stalled construction of an unathorized Coptic church building in Giza have been released.
Clashes began after security forces attemped to demolish a building in al-‘Umrāniyyah, saying that an...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2011
AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman says that the government, Muslims, and Christians need to work together to address the growing sectarian tension in Egypt in order to prevent future attacks, such as the the New Year's Day bombing of a Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria, which left 21 dead and...
Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2010
Pope Shenouda III opened two new churches in Sharm al-Shaykh last Saturday. The openings were attended by South Sinai Governor Muhammad ‘Abd al-Fudayl Shūshah, Bishops Yū’ánnis, Butrus, and Armiyā and were received by Bishop Apollo of South Sinai.
The Pope did not make it back to Cairo in time to...
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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.