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Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2010
Pope Shenouda postponed returning from Monastery of Saint Bīshūy (Dayr Anbā Bīshūy) in Wādī al-Natrūn that was scheduled in Sunday December 12, 2010.
Pope didn't state the time of his arrival but its expected that it will be before his well-known weekly sermon in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Jayson Casper previews the "Day of Wrath," a protest by Egyptian opposition parties that corresponds with Egypt's Police Day holiday...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Shūrá [Consultative] Council says that the government is about to announce “a sovereign decision” regulating the building of churches, according to al-Shurūq al-Jadīd on Sunday.
Dr. Mustafá al-Fiqī said the decision would “satisfy God and the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Egyptian Minister of Endowments says that a new law regulating the building of churches is currently under study and will be drafted in the coming legislative period...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr says that the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee has turned down a challenge by the Giza Bishopric to reverse the decision to stop construction at the disputed church site.
The report says the previous meeting of the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee had postponed its decision so that the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr quotes informed sources saying that a "sovereign party" has gained "confirmed information of the involvement of the Israeli Mossad in the [Two Saints Church] explosion in cooperation with Egyptian elements.”
The paper further says “Egyptian security authorities had spotted an Israeli...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
On Sunday, an emergency tribunal sentenced Hammām al-Kamūnī to death for his part in last year’s slaying of seven people outside a church in the Upper Egyptian town of Naj‘ Hammādī. * Egyptian newspaper coverage of the court ruling continued on Tuesday, but on a more limited scale than in previous...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2011
Under the headline “Pope to be Absent from Alexandria Epiphany Service for Third Succesive Year,” Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd reports that Pope Shenouda III will hold the annual service at the Monastery of Saint Bīshūy (Dayr Anbā Bīshūy) at Wādī al-Natrūn in northern Egypt.
The pope has been absent from...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2011
AWR provides a roundup of the latest Egyptian newspaper coverage of the investigation of the Alexandria church bombing on New Year's Day....
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Interreligious tensions in Egypt are, unfortunately, very often related to church construction.
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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.