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Date of source: Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sidhum continues his series of articles reviewing the grievances ofCopts in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya. In this article he focuses on the problems that Christians face when trying to build houses. Sidhum argues that any house built by a Copt comes under suspicion because the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 14, 2009
Watani recalls the clash between monks and bedouins at the Abu-Fana monastery in southern Egypt, and claims that injustice to the Christians has not been redressed.
Date of source: Thursday, June 11, 2009
Ihāb Ramzīwas the Christian lawyer representing the monks from the monastery of Abū Fānā. He took on the case a week after the attack on the monastery on May 31, 2008 and claims that he stepped down from the case after the governor of Minia pressured him to do so.
Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 2009
The absence of a Christian girl from her home for more than five days enraged 200 Copts in Mallawī in Minia. Copts demonstrated in front of the state security headquarter calling for her to be returned.
Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2009
Shukrī reports on three different issues related to Muslim-Christian relations. First he comments on the ruling regarding Christians who converted to Islam and now want to re-embrace Christianity. Secondly he comments on a Muslim that was killed by a Copt in Alexandria and finally he mentions the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The recent Bahā’ī jubilation following the Supreme Administrative Court ruling on March 16, 2009 which allows them to leave the religion box empty in their ID cards has been marred by an unprecedented sectarian attack against Bahā’ī’s houses in the Upper Egyptian village of al– Shūrānīyah in Sohag.
Date of source: Monday, April 6, 2009
The state security forces prevented Christians from praying in a church and has refused to give them authorization to do so under the pretext of Muslims’ objection to the establishment of a church there.
Date of source: Sunday, March 8, 2009
A Christian girl who ran away with her Muslim boyfriend is back with her family in Mallawi.
Date of source: Saturday, February 28, 2009
A Coptic teenager escaped from her family home intending to marry a 20 year old young Muslim man. Copts demonstrated angrily and the prosecution released the couple. The teenage girl is said to have been sent to a monastery in Cairo to be taken care of.
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2009
A Muslim passed between two Christian brothers on his bicycle, resulting in a quarrel that led to many people being injured.
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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.