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Date of source: Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The Strong Egypt Party, led by Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh (‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū Al-Futtūh), former presidential candidate, categorically rejects any assaults or demonstrations in front of churches or mosques. The party announced (August 5) that houses of worship must be appreciated by all...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Further, the Ministry of Interior Affairs announced the arrest of eight people involved in the killing. Maj. Gen. Muhammad Ibrāhīm, Minister of Interior, said that the incident was an evil crime, saying that there is no difference between Sunnīs and Shī’ahs. He said the police forces are not weak...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Residents of al-Khusūs have confirmed that the majority of the Muslims arrested have no connection to the event and were arrested unjustly after security forces stormed their homes and threatened the families with weapons.
Maj. Gen. Mahmūd Yusrī, Director of al-Qalyubia Security Department, denied...
Date of source: Friday, February 10, 2012
Dozens of Copts protested outside the office of the president of the Cairo Court of Appeal to reject summoning Archpriest Mattias Nasr, Priest Philopater Jamīl, former coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union (MYU) Rāmī Kāmil and Chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization (EUHRO)...
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2017
The “Coordinating Citizenship” Program, which includes Coptic activists, party-members, and parliamentarians, issued a statement in which it affirmed its rejection of the special visit conducted by the Committee on Religious Freedoms of the U.S. State Department to Egypt. They also rejected...
Date of source: Friday, June 23, 2017
The worst thing a cleric can do is to confound religion with politics, or to use religion to serve politics, especially in a context of tension and anger. The cleric has the duty to keep himself distant from politics and spread the culture of peace instead, by keeping people away from the...
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2017
The Church of Egypt issued a press release on Friday in the wake of the incident that killed at least 28 Copts and injured 24 [others] when a bus on its way to the Saint Samwell the Confessor Monastery was attacked.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2017
"I thank the nation’s shield, the Armed Forces, for their heroic role in the restoration of the churches damaged by the Muslim Brotherhood," said Pastor ‘Andrīh Zakī, head of the Evangelical community in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2017
Palm Sunday signifies the beginning of the Holy Week leading up to Easter, the most important feast in the Christian calendar. It was a sad week following the attacks on two churches in Egypt that cost the lives of 45 people and injured 129 others, some of whom were Muslim policemen and guards.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2017
Yesterday's attacks on two Coptic Orthodox Churches were heartbreaking. The boards of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) in Egypt and the Arab-West Foundation (AWF) in the Netherlands call the terrorist attacks on Coptic Orthodox Churches in Tanta [Ṭānṭā] and Alexandria [Al-Iskandariyyah...
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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.