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Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2012
“The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) and other political movements started a march on Sunday (February 12) from ‘Abd al-Mun’im Riyād to the People’s Assembly to support MPs raising the issue of the Copts of al-‘Āmirīyah, Alexandria, who were forced to leave their dwelling places last week over a...
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2012 to Sunday, March 25, 2018
Fādī Yūsuf, the general coordinator for the Egypt Copts Coalition, said the group will protest outside the People's Assembly (parliament) against the incidents of al-'Āmrīyah, Alexandria, and the expulsion of eight Christian families and unlawfully wasting their private property.
The move comes in...
Date of source: Saturday, February 11, 2012
Lawmaker Dr. ‘Imād Jād threatened to resign from parliament if People’s Assembly Speaker Dr. Sa’d al-Katātnī continues to refuse debating his urgent statement on a crisis that followed an informal ‘urfī (informal) reconciliatory session decision to expel eight Coptic families from al-‘Āmrīyah area...
Date of source: Sunday, February 18, 2018
A Greek restoration team, leading in their field, has started with restoration works at Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria. The restoration process of the cathedral is proceeding in three main stages: The restoration of the ancient icons, the restoration of the building structure...
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2018
Last week on Tuesday, at Bayt al-Sinnarī cultural center in al-Sayyidah Zaynab, Dr. Muṣṭafā al-Fiqī, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), launched a program to combat extremism and terrorism, directed at middle and secondary school students. It is a program that is aiming at the new...
Date of source: Thursday, January 3, 2013
Last Saturday, December 30, hundreds of Copts attended the funeral service of Ashraf Sāmī ‘Adlī, the 26-year-old killed in the bombing attack on Saint Mary’s and Saint George’s Coptic Orthodox Church of Misrata city, Libya. Bishop Pachomius led the funeral mass; Bishop Samuel and a large number of...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II surprised the worshippers of Two Saints Church, Saint Mark, and Pope Peter in Alexandria, on New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2012) and led the prayers, commemorating the victims of the Church attack on January 1, 2011.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, al-Wafd, and al-Yawm al-Sābi’ newspaper report on January 2 that Salafīs have returned Aghābī ’Isām Jirjis, the Coptic 14-year old minor back to her family, after her disappearance nine days ago, after several negotiations efforts by investigation police with leading figures of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Pope Tawadros II held New Year's mass at the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, without prior notice, to mark the second anniversary of the bombing on New Year's Eve 2010. Outside the church where 24 people were killed and more than 100 wounded, Muslims and the Christians held a vigil. They tied a...
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2012
The Alexandria court of urgent matters decided to adjourn the case of the Church of the Two Saints to the March 18 session in order to allow the plaintiffs to photocopy the investigations file at the supreme state security prosecution on the January 1, 2011 bombing attack that left dozens killed or...
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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.