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Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
No matter what the outcome of the Qena governor predicament until these lines go into print, the core of this article remains true and pressing. The appointment earlier this month of a Coptic governor to the southern province of Qena provoked widespread demonstrations by hardline Islamist Qinawis....
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
Henk-Jan van Maanen, a researcher, came from The Netherlands to research places of Islamism, Liberalism and Christianity in post-Mubarak Egypt. He met with AWR's Managing Director, Mr. Hānī Labīb, who helped him with some contacts from whom he can benefit.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2011
This statement was designed by Dutch Christians and Muslims together and is signed by representatives of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands , the Contact Assembly Muslims and Government, and the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Netherlands .
Date of source: Sunday, April 10, 2011
The crisis of Saint John church in al-Qadāmīr, al-Minya, ended on April 8, 2011 after an alternative solutions were proposed, including the construction of a new church to replace a Coptic service building.
Copts will be allowed to pray in the old church until works on construction of the new one...
Date of source: Sunday, April 10, 2011
Dr. Rev. Andrea Zakī, Vice President of Egypt's Evangelical denomination, stressed the importance for religion to be the reference of the government in its applied system of the new constitution.
He said that any political project or system in the Middle East that generally ignores religion will...
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: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Six Christians killed their sister’s Muslim husband, 22, after she converted to Islam in revenge. Investigations revealed that the accused took the deceased to a deserted house and stabbed him to death. They then threw his corpse into a canal. The prosecution accused the six Christian suspects of...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The crisis of Kamilia Shehata is still ongoing and threatens to cause a sectarian crisis between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2011
On a Youtube film released on March 28 one sees salafī leader Muhammad Hasān preaching against liberalism which, according to him is anti-Islam. This is a leader who prior to the revolution was unknown to most Egyptians. He was serving in prison for his aggressive speech and was released when the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2010
Copts in the Egyptian media 42
Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to the weekly, State-owned al-Mussawar and the file it recently published on “Do Copts hate the July Revolution?” In his article entitled, “Copts under Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir,” Midhat Bishāy attempted to cite both the...
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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.