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Date of source: Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Members of the Constituent Assembly Khālid Yūssuf and Muhammad Abu al- Ghār have stated their dissatisfaction with the judicial support to the court sentence ruling to jail novelist Karam Sābir, member of the Writers' Union, for 5 years due to being convicted of contempt of religion.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Author Karam Sābir, member of the Writer’s Union, was convicted of contempt of religion for a set of short stories under the title “Where is God?” which promotes religion and faith.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Satire program presenter, Bāssim Yūsuf, stated that he has decided to take his program, al- Birnāmig, off the air permanently due to pressures.
Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2014
The Misdemeanor Appeals Court in Sohag governorate has ruled four years of imprisonment and a 10,000 LE fine for a teacher convicted of contempt of religion
Date of source: Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The three Coptic Churches have condemned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s insult of the Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyīb. Pope Tawadros II denounced Erdoğan’s insult. In a telephone conversation with the Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar on Tuesday, Pope Tawadros II said: “We denounce...
Date of source: Monday, January 20, 2014
Pope Tawadros stated that taking part in the referendum is an expression of life in Egypt “without having any strange elements in it”. He also added to community leaders and official delegations that came to congratulate him on the occasion of Epiphany that it is too early to discuss the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 15, 2014
The Religious Freedom Committee in the American Congress has issued a report that asserted that Egypt has seen a significant increase in the law suits of the contempt of religion since 2011.
Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2018
The Rockin' Imām Aḥmad Muḥsin Tuzer has been the headline news for a long time in Turkey for creating a rock band. The Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has dismissed Imam Tuzer for his controversial activities.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Dr. Janneke Stegeman calls for ecumenism with Islam. Good relations with Muslims are very important but one cannot ignore that the existence of Christianity in virtually all Muslim majority countries is under threat. Another problem is that most Muslims do not accept the concept of freedom of...
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Egypt has been deeply divided between sympathizers
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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.