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Date of source: Friday, April 26, 2013
The Minister of Interior, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, said that the Cathedral incident aimed to drive a wedge between the Church and the police. Ibrāhīm, members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and the UAE ambassador to Egypt, offered their condolences to Pope Tawāḍrūs on Wednesday night (...
Date of source: Friday, April 26, 2013
Pope Tawadros received condolences from the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Interior for the victims of the al-Khusūs and Cathedral. The Church invited President Mursi to attend Easter Mass on May 5, but the question is whether Mursi will respond to the invitation personally after the Presidency...
Date of source: Friday, April 26, 2013
The Coptic Orthodox Church has begun preparing for Easter celebrations amid concerns surrounding the invitation of government officials to attend the celebrations in the light of recent attacks upon the Church. Archbishop Sergius Sergius, Deputy of the Patriarchate for Administrative Affairs, said...
Date of source: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Head of the Misdemeanor Court, Counselor Tāmir 'Abd al-Wanīs, decided to allow appeal hearings for Samuel Subhī and 'Atif 'Awad, whom are accused for causing the clashes at al-'Abbāsīyyah Cathedral during a funeral for the victims of Khusūs incident (Mustafá Harbī, al-Dustūr, Apr. 25, p. 2). Read...
Date of source: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Papal sources stated that a meeting will be held between Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II at al-'Abbāsīyyah next Tuesday (May 2, 2013). The source also mentioned the possibility of including President Muhammad Mursi (Mursī), in discussions surrounding...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2013
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR)'s fact-finding committee issued a report about the attack on Saint Mark Cathedral in al-'Abbāsīyyah. The report highlighted that up till now, according to the prosecution, there are no suspects in the incidents, despite filing more than 45 reports from...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Below is the full texts of foreign newspapers reports about clashes occurred at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
THE scenes shown Sunday night on Egyptian television channels from Abbesseya Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, epitomise what many Egyptians view as a nightmare: a crowd of Muslims attacking the biggest church in the country with rocks and Molotov cocktails, as the police...
Date of source: Monday, April 8, 2013
In a Jesuit-run magazine in 1957, Rev. J.J.W. Murphy recalled a meeting with a Christian priest in Egypt ten years prior. "I was surprised then at what he told me of Muslim hostility to Christianity and of the possibility that persecution would break out," Murphy wrote. "Now I know that his...
Date of source: Monday, April 8, 2013
Sectarian violence struck Egypt again on Friday, April 6, as at least four Christians and one Muslim were killed in an incident in Khusūs, in the governorate of Qalyubia, to the north of Cairo. Clashes continued on Sunday, and spread to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in downtown Cairo, where a...
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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.