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Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2011
AWR's Hānī Hamdī continues to survey Egyptian newspaper coverage of the Alexandria church bombing. He reports that Tuesday's coverage focused primarily on Coptic protests, which continue in different areas of Egypt some three days after the attack...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The family of the Christian girl who disappeared a few days ago, along with a number of other Christian residents of the Barawah village of Ahnāsyā Center in the governorate of Beni Suef, have threatened to stage a sit-in in opposite the Ahnāsyā police station.
Ishak Ramzī, the girl's father, says...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The governor of Luxor and Evangelical Church leaders in the governorate agree on demolishing a church with the reopening of the archaeologically-significant Ramses Road.
The governor had visited the church and talked to people there. The governorate assigned a 2,000 square-meter land to build a...
38. One million persons in the streets .. and the mūlid’s rituals is not taken from Amon worshippers
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2010
The people of Luxor celebrate the mūlid of al-'ārif Billāh Sīdī Abū al-Hajjāj al-Luqsurī, the founder of the hajjājī sūfī method. The rituals are taken from ancient Egypt. However, Abū al-Fadl Badrān, a scholar of the sūfī tradition, denies the existence of a similarity between the rituals of the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 24, 2010
Fights renewed once again between Christian young men of Mar Mīnā Church in Fayyūm and salesmen of neighbouring mobile shops because of two Christian men who were allegedly harassing two girls in the street.
The police intervened immediately. The injured were hospitalized and a number of men from...
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2010
A National Democratic Party candidate in Beni Suef sparked controversy for distributing campaign flyers with his photo set next to a photo of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus in an attempt to win over the Coptic vote. Ibrāhīm Sharīf with the Egyptian Union for Human Rights said that the actions...
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 2010
Makarius Jād Shākir, who was killed during Wednesday’s church riots in ‘Umrāniyyah, was buried in his hometown of Sohag yesterday. The funeral was attended by a large number of Copts and Muslims from his village. The funeral, which was heavily guarded by security, was peaceful and saw no signs of...
Date of source: Monday, November 22, 2010
The Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria was officially made a member of the Council of Cardinals by Vatican Pope Benedict XVI yesterday, making him the third Egyptian member of the council in history. In a statement, Bishop Antonius Najīb said that religious discrimination in Egypt is non-...
Date of source: Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tuesday night was the last night of the Mār Girgis (Saint George) Day celebrations attended by thousands of people from all around Egypt. The event's attendees included the Qena Governor Dr. Majdī Ayyūb. The governor, who was received by Bishop Shārūbīm of Qena, delivered a speech about how the...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Qena Governor Majdī Ayyūb and popular council leader Nabīl al-Hifnī attended the annual Mār Girgis Day celebrations along with over 5,000 attendees. Ayyūb said that these types of celebrations are the biggest evidence of Egyptian national unity.
Key Words: Qena – Majdī Ayyūb – Nabīl al-Hifnī
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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.