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Date of source: Sunday, April 10, 2011
Last Tuesday, a Muslim mob a few thousand strong gathered in front of Mar-Yuhanna (Saint John) church in al-Minya village of al-Qamādīr in Samallūt, some 240km south of Cairo, demanding that the church should be closed. They attacked the church and the Copts’ houses with stones and set on fire...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 2010
The crisis of Maghāghah in relation to the inflexibility of the bishopric and the governor appears to have no end.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The governorate of Kaliobia praises the national unity breakfast tables and confirms the good relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The project of Kebash Road is still ongoing and it will not threaten the Church of Saint Mary in Luxor.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The author assures that the United States of America is more tolerant in treating other religions than Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 2010
The author throws light on the crisis between Najīib Jabrā’īl and Bishop Marqus, which prompted Pope Shenouda to prevent holding any public conferences in any bishopric without his prior consent.
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2010
Pope Shenouda insisted that the Secular Copts group who recently proposed a draft personal status law neither represents the Coptic Orthodox people nor the Church.
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2010
A conference on the “Role of the universities, NGOs, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and the media, in preserving Coptic antiquities during the period from 1976 to 2009” was recently held in Cairo.
The conference was organized by the Italian Institute for antiquities and restoration in...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2010
Thousands of Copts from Maghāghah and al-Adawa in Minia, Upper Egypt, staged a sit-in at the bishopric grounds in Maghāghah last Monday to protest what they saw as unjust, humiliating treatment at the hands of Minia governor Ahmad Dīyā’ al-Dīn.
Heading the protest was Bishop Aghathoun, Bishop of...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2010
Over a series of four editorials printed last October, I tackled the practices exercised by Minia local authorities against the Copts in the governorate. A file I had received from the bishopric of Maghāghah and Adwah in Minia was packed full of details that could be described as collective...
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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.