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Date of source: Monday, November 21, 2022
Pope Tawāḍrūs II has visited the Monastery of St. Macarius [Dayr Abū Maqār], one of the oldest Coptic monasteries in Wādī Naṭrūn. It is his tenth visit since he assumed the Patriarchate in 2012. His first visit as 118th Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church to the monastery was on 10th March 2014...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Some people wonder about the conditions when a wife can divorce her husband when he marries or intends to marry a second wife. According to Egyptian Personal Status Law, there are several points relevant to such cases.
Date of source: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Led by Pope Tawāḍrūṣ II, the Coptic Orthodox Church is preparing to start the Christmas fast on November 25th, which will last for 43 days until Coptic Christmas is celebrated on January 7, 2023. During this period, Coptic Christians abstain from meat and dairy products and observe several unique...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Social media users recently circulated a shocking video of Fr. Ṣamūʾīl al-Buḥayrī, one of the priests of the ʿIzbat al-Nakhl region, describing Protestant marriage as adultery. The video reeks of hatred and contempt for a segment of society that is the closest segment to his own and forms an...
Date of source: Friday, November 4, 2022
Today, 4th November, the Coptic Orthodox Church commemorated the birth of Pope Tawāḍrūs II, the 70th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
Mājid Kāmil, a member of the Papal Committee on Church History, said in his study: “One of the many talents I have observed in His Holiness...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
In the presence of a group of religious and political leaders, XploreNations Bible College, in partnership with the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC) , held a symposium on the doctoral thesis “Pope Shinūda III (1923-2012): a historical study”, which was obtained by the researcher in...
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2022
The European Court of Justice’s decision to ban the headscarf in the workplace was not the first measure and it will not be the last. Over the past twenty years, the veil has become a matter of great controversy in Western societies, due to its increasing appearance on the streets of European and...
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2022
The activities of the Seventh International Conference on Fatwas under the name “Fatwa and Sustainable Development Goals,” organized by the Egyptian Dār Al-Iftā’ under the umbrella of the General Secretariat of Fatwa Authorities Worldwide, will launch tomorrow (Oct. 17th) in Cairo. The conference...
Date of source: Saturday, October 15, 2022
The Church of the Martyr Abu Sīfīn in Ḥadāʾiq al-Qubba (Cairo) organized this month a meeting for children on its farm in Wādī al-Naṭrūn, in the presence of Anba Mīkhāʾīl, the general bishop for churches in Ḥadāʾiq al-Qubba, al-Waylī and al-ʿAbbāsiya, and an agricultural engineer who explained the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 15, 2022
On October 15th, His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria, Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, dedicated icons for the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius in Nasr City to celebrate the golden jubilee (i.e. fifteenth anniversary) of laying the foundation stone in 1972.
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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.