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Date of source: Monday, July 4, 2011
CAIRO: Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Sunday in favor of Christian reconverts, allowing them to be identified as Christians on their national ID cards and birth certificates.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Dr. Najīb Jibrā'īl, the president of Egyptian Union Organization for Human Rights, denied any church interference in Christine and Nancy issue in al-Minya.
Both girls converted to Islam. Jibrā'īl called on the church not to interfere in this issue.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Supreme Administrative Court set the July 2 session to resume considering the case of re-converters to Christianity.
A number of Copts had converted to Islam and later converted back to Christianity and asked the interior ministry to have their personal information proving their Christian, not...
Date of source: Monday, June 6, 2011
In al-Akhbār, page 7, June 6, 2011, in Imbābah’s incidents, prosecution refers 48 culprits (23 prisoners and 25 fugitives) to the Emergency State Security Court.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Cairo's prosecution starts investigating the Kāmīiya Shihātah case after referring it to the Western Cairo Prosecution in light of the various reports about her disappearance [Read original text in Arabic].
In Ākhir Sā'ah magazine, page 12 and 13, May 4, 2011, Nabīl Lūqā Bibāwī said that neither...
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church has been accused of suppressing anyone who dares to convert to Islam.
Both the Muslim and the Christian religious institutions should promote the right of beliefs for every citizen without any bonds.
As long as Egyptian Muslims and Christians are living together on...
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
On 1 May protesters suspended their sit-in outside St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo for 15 days. After the Friday Prayer, Cairo witnessed three separate protests staged by Salafists, calling for the release of Coptic women who converted to Islam, but were supposedly held against their will be the...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
In this article, the author highlights a voice recording published at al-Marsad al-Islāmī Limuqāwmat al-Tansīr (Islamic Observatory for the Resistance to Christianization) website http://www.tanseerel.com by a Muslim who alleged that he hosted Kamīliyā after she declared her desire to convert to...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 2010
The security apparatus rejects the allegations that it has been involved in kidnapping Kāmīliyā, a security source said.
The interior ministry source affirmed that the state security agency was not involve in the kidnapping of Kāmīliyā, the priest’s wife, who reportedly converted to Islam.
The...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The author says that the Azhar remained silent and neither denied nor confirmed whether Camellia converted to Islam or not and neither did the church. Bahiyy al-Dīn Husīn, general manager of the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies, argues that there exist a secret agreement between the religious...
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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.