Displaying 61 - 70 of 499.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 20, 2014
In response to widespread rumors that the Minya Diocese is playing a role in campaigning for a certain candidate [name not mentioned], it has issued a statement rejecting this.
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Bishop Pachomius announced on August 10 the list of 17 candidates for the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch seat. They are seven bishops and ten monks:
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Bishop Dimitrius of Mallawī and al-Ashmūnīn, al-Minya Governorate, has called on Bishop Pachomius, Coptic Orthodox Acting Patriarch not to permit the candidacy of Bishops for the position of patriarch and to restrict the candidacies to monks “so that spiritual and church laws not be broken.”
Date of source: Monday, September 23, 2013
The Copts in Diljā have held the first Sunday mass after the army and police forces entered the village. This was held in the Monastery of Virgin Mary and Bishop Abram that was burnt in the presence of security forces (Islām Fahmī and Khadīgā al-‘Adlī, al-Watan, Sept. 23, p. 3). Read original text...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Yesterday afternoon the U.S.Congress Foreign Relations Committee held (Oct. 1) a formal hearing on the violation of human rights in Egypt and theattacksonChristiansandchurches. This was in the presenceofBishopAngaelos, Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of England.The session included a hearing...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Unknown assailants opened fire on the car Bishop Makarios in Minya while he going to visit the village of Sirū center in Abu Qurqās to give condolences to a Christian family there. On its part, the Coptic Orthodox Church issued a statement confirming that Bishop Makarios is unhurt (Ashraf Kamāl, al...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
General Muhammad Nūr Al Dīn, the Assistant Minister of Interior, stated that there is a total of 11 police stations in al-Minya and that 7 were burnt in the events that followed the dispersal of the Nahdah and Rāba’ah sit-ins. He stated that extremists have formed shields, extorted Christians and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Counselor Tāmir Fārūq, the Attorney General for the South Minya Prosecution, has ordered a team from the prosecution in al-Minya to examine and assess the damages done to churches and Copts’ property in al-Minya. A group from the public prosecution started interrogating the defendants who were...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 10, 2013
A Coptic accountant of Nasser Social Bank has been kidnapped in Matāy in al-Minya governorate. The kidnappers intercepted his car and threatened him with firearms. A 33-year-old employee and a Kūm-Matāy village resident, Osama Muhībb Jonan Josef, has been reported kidnapped. His brother, 26,...
Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, Minister of Endowments, stated in an interview that the reason for his request to the Ministry of Justice to grant the right of judicial arrest to the inspectors of the Ministry of Endowments is to increase the control of the Ministry over the mosques and stop any...
Pages
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.