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Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Churches are leading a battle to add the term “civic (secular) state” in the constitution’s preamble according to the article. Bishop Antonius Azīz the representative of the Catholic Church in the Constituent Assembly ensured of the persistence of the three Coptic churches in adding this term to...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Coptic Catholic Father Rafīq Greish, media adviser for the Coptic Catholic Church, revealed that the heads of the three churches – Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic – are discussing the presentation of a proposal to the commission of experts amending the constitution, commissioned by interim...
Date of source: Monday, July 22, 2013
Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, deputy head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, descried the committee as a “good step” within the framework of a road-map.
Father Rafīq Greish, media spokesperson of the Coptic Catholic Church, underlined the importance of the participation of women (‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-...
Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Reuters published an article about the newly-elected Vatican Pope Bergoglio, entitled, “Argentina's Bergoglio elected as new Pope Francis”:
Date of source: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson’s visit to the Two Saint's Church in Alexandria has raised many questions. The visit, during which Patterson met with leaders, the high priest, and the lawyer of the families of martyrs, lasted more than two hours and was conducted in the strictest confidence and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Following the footsteps of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church has chosen Bishop Ibrāhīm Ishāq of al-Minya as successor to Cardinal Antonius Najīb who, for health reasons, resigned from his post. [Author not mentioned, al-Wafd, Jan. 23, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, August 29, 2011
Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, Archbishop Antonius Najīb, has expressed his fears over the possibility of strong presence from Islamist forces in the next parliament.
Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2011
Months after the Alexandria “Two Saints Church” bombing in January, the Coptic Church is threatening to sue the Interior Ministry which it claims has failed to produce those responsible and bring justice. Despite sending many requests to the Ministry regarding the bombing which killed 24 people,...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 2010
This article highlights an interview between Radio Vatican and Father Rafīq Greish, a spokesman for the Coptic Catholic Church, who speaks about the state of Egyptian Christians during the past months.
Greish discusses the ‘Umrāniyyah riots against the construction stoppage of an unlicensed church...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 2010
Asmā’ Nassār argues that Egypt cannot be a civil country without making a distinction between religion and state. For instance, she says that some Egyptian schools force Christians to memorize verses from the Qur'ān.
Nassār recommends several ways to improve the civil state in Egypt.
The first way...
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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.