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Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius said the church adopts a solid position about keeping Article 2 of the 1971 Constitution in the way it is drafted but a new paragraph spelling out the rights of non-Muslims to have as the main source their religious laws regulating...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Meanwhile, political activist George Ishaq on Tuesday (May 1) visited the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) headquarters and met with its vice-president Dr. Yāsir al-Burhāmī.
Burhāmī said the meeting was positive as it tackled coexistence between Muslims and Christians for 14 centuries and that...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
“‘Amr Ibn al-‘Ās has conquered Egypt and we are going to repeat that Islamic conquest in order to bring back to Egypt its progress and dignity. The Muslim Brotherhood and its party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) aim to achieve sovereignty,” said Mursī during the rally.
Skirmishes took place...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Meanwhile, the government turned down the draft law forwarded by Coptic lawmaker ‘Ihāb ‘Ādil Ramzī on the enactment of a unified law for the construction of houses of worship.
Assistant Minister of Justice Counselor ‘Umar al-Sharīf and representative of the ministry of awqāf (endowments) Jamāl...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
With the departure of the pope, the last of the Charismatic religious and political symbols and leaders in the modern history of Egypt has gone and unfortunately in a very critical time for the nation, writes Dīyā’ Rashwān in another opinion article in al-Misrī al-Yawm.
Thanks to his deep-rooted...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
In another opinion piece in al-Misrī al-Yawm, Hilmī al-Namnam says Mubārak’s Egypt used to wash its hands of many responsibilities towards the citizens and in this sense one can understand how the state abandoned Coptic citizens for the church and Pope Shenouda.
This position was the source of some...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Al-Nūr MPs apparently have failed to take advantage of the golden historic opportunity to show the tolerant face of the Muslim faith, writes Muhammad Amīn in an opinion article in al-Misrī al-Yawm newspaper.
He wondered whether those legislators understand Islam better than the Grand Shaykh of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Shaykh ‘Usāmah al-Qūsī, the imām and preacher of al-Hadīy al-Nabawīy Mosque, harshly criticized lawmakers from the Salafī al-Nūr Party for declining to stand a minute’s silence in observance of the death of Pope Shenouda III at a People’s Assembly session on Monday (March 19).
“Al-Nūr MPs are...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood Murshid (Guide) Dr. Muhammad Badī’ is offering condolences over the departure of Pope Shenouda at the Saint Mark Cathedral’s Coptic Cultural Center.
Badī’ is accompanied by a delegation from the group, including his deputy Dr. Mahmūd ‘Izzat, Irshād (Guidance) Office member Dr. ‘...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The pope’s body was carried by a military aircraft to Wādī al-Natrūn to be buried at the Bishop Bīshūy Monastery, where he used to seek reclusion.
Clad in their bulbous black miters, more than 110 bishops members of the Holy Synod in and outside Egypt as well as 500 priests, foreign delegations...
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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.