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Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsā of Youth issued a statement on Thursday (January 12) on the patriarchate's official website on social networking media Facebook that the church does not invite any Christmas well-wishers.
"Persons wishing to extend Christmas greetings usually notify the church, which...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Tayyīb said the top Sunni Muslim establishment preserves the principles of the sharī'ah against any corruption or twisting of texts.
Tayyīb's remarks came in his speech at a conference on the service of the sunnah (the Prophet Muhammad's tradition),...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
In an article about the phobia from Islamists' ascendance to power, to the concerns of Egyptian Christians, Coptic thinker Jamāl As'ad 'Abd al-Malāk said that many Copts feel that they do not have a place anymore in this country, particularly after the Islamists swept the majority of seats in the...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
Dr. Muhammad al-Barrī, the leader of the Azhar Ulema Front, said he was proud to be a Copt [Reviewer's Note: Copt in a sense means all Egyptians, whether Muslims or Christians]
"The more the leadership of the Azhar is honest and brave, the most likely the interests of the nation are achieved," said...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
Former Arab League Secretary General and presidential hopeful 'Amr Mūsá said Copts are Egyptian citizens who enjoy all rights and must observe all duties.
Mūsā made the remarks on the sidelines of his participation in a conference on reform and democratization hosted in the Lebanese capital Beirut...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
Meanwhile, Muftī of the Republic Shaykh 'Alī Jum'ah said Islam guarantees that non-Muslims may practice their rituals and the principles of their faiths freely.
"The amendment of Article 2 of the constitution is needless because after all no one can encroach on the principles of the sharī'ah, a...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
Furthermore, Egypt's embassies in 29 countries already started on Sunday, January 15, to apply the biometric visa on officials of those states wishing to visit Egypt out of the reciprocity principle after those countries imposed this visa on Egyptians.
The new measure applies to the Schengen...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2012
On the other hand, Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, amidst prayers of his well-wishers, left Cairo International Airport on Sunday, January 15, for the United States to undergo medical checkup at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Prior to his departure, the pope prayed for Egypt to surmount the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Under the title Documented, Accurate Figure – Census of Copts is 18.565.484 million, Mājid 'Attīyah writes in a column in Watanī newspaper of January 15 that Dr. Tharwat Basīlī has said he has a documented, accurate figure of the Coptic population in Egypt and that he challenges anyone who would...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
On the other hand, a number of Azhar scholars and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church vehemently rejected images showing U.S. soldiers urinating over the dead bodies of the Afghan Taliban Movement fighters, describing the act as "ugly, barbaric and violating respect for humans".
Muhammad Ra'fat '...
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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.