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Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Fr. Mūsā Ibrāhīm, official spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church, announced that Pope Tawādrūs II decided to form a commission to follow up on the legal consequences around the issue of Wādī al Rayyān.
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2021
After a brief respite, St. Macarius Monastery in Wādī al-Rayyān has once again found its way back into the spotlight after monks woke up to find the Environmental Ministry’s demolition equipment and police working to repossess a thousand acres of the monastery’s land. According to sources, when...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2021
Monks from the St. Macarius Monastery in Wādī al-Rayyān, al-Fayūm, confirmed that security forces led by the Environmental Affairs Agency demolished monastery facilities, including a church, monastic living quarters, and farmland. They said that several monks had been assaulted while protesting...
Date of source: Monday, December 3, 2012
The Public Prosecutor, counselor Tal'at Ibrāhīm, ordered the State Security chief, Counselor Tāmir al-Farghanī, to carry out an investigation on a case filed by Khālid al-Misrī, general secretary of the National Centre for the Defense of Freedoms, accusing the newly elected Coptic Orthodox Pope...
Date of source: Sunday, October 26, 2014
This morning, the Secretary of the Holy Synod and General Bishop of the Churches in Downtown gave a statement on the Monastery of St. Macarius in Wadi Rayan in Faiyum. This happened during the consecration of three altars in the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. John in Bab el Louk
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Father Mattah al-Māskīn, before his consecration he was called Yūsuf Iskandar, was born on September 20, 1919 in Banhā, Cairo. al-Māskīn participated in the Sunday School Movement and became a monk in 1948 knowing that the church could only be reformed from within. Students from the Sunday School...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2016
Jawzīf Malāk a human rights delegate for the state of minorities with the United Nations reported that there is a fear that the Wādī al-Riyān Monastery crisis is escalating between the two parties and the rights organizations that are becoming involved in the matter. Malāk demanded that the state...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 2010
Abba Ibram, Bishop of Faiyum, negated claims by monks at the Abba Makarious Monastery that local authorities assaulted the monks during a disagreement that started when the monks beginning to illegally build on a natural reserve. Local authority officials later filed a case against the monks,...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2010
Workers at the Local and Environmental Unit at Yūsuf Al-Seddeek Center launched recriminations at monks from the Abba Makarious Monastery because the monks allegedly attempted to build illegally on a nature reserve belonging to UNESCO. The monks accused the workers of preventing them from building...
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 2010
Altercations occurred between workers at the local and environmental unit at Yūsuf Al-Seddeek Center and monks from the Abba Makarious Monastery after the monks attempted to illegally build on a nature reserve near the monastery. The Head of Faiyum Security was forced to interfere and later senior...
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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.