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Date of source: Friday, August 9, 2013
Due to a new rumor claiming that Copts had attacked a Muslim house and set it on fire, the clashes began again in Banī Ahmed al-Sharqīya. This led to a security alert to contain the clashes (Hasan 'Abd al-Ghafār, al-Yawm al-Sābi', Aug. 9).Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Saturday, August 24, 2013
The village of Saft al-Laban, in al-Minya Governorate, witnessed last Wednesday sectarian fights, after an argument between a Christian and a Muslim led to the death of one of them and the torching of eight Christian houses. The security forces intervened to avoid further violence and al-Minya...
Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2012
In an attempt to appease the tense atmosphere in the village of Banī Hassan al-Ashrāf, al-Minya governorate, a 'urfī (informal) conciliatory session was held in coordination with security agencies to settle sectarian unrest between two Coptic and Muslim families. [Teresa Kamāl and 'Alā' Sarhān,...
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...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 6, 2013
On August 5, security services in al-Minya discovered the body of a man killed in the clashes which broke out between a number of Copts and Muslims in the village of Banī Ahmad al-Sharqiya in al-Minya governorate because of a pro-army song. Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hamīd, 30, resident of...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
An investigative report on al-Minya sectarian violence between villagers of al-Hiwārtah, which has a Muslim majority, and Nazlit ‘Ābid, which has a Christian majority, appeared in al-Wafd. Copts in Nazlit ‘Ābid have denounced the death of ‘Abd al- Massīh ‘Ayād Fānūs. Girgis, one of the victims of...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The ethnic reconciliation session in Matāy (al-Minya governate) have completed the reconciliation between the people of the village of Manbāl, after a group of youths attacked the Prince Tadros Church and smashed up two pharmacies, some shops and cars owned by Copts, during a fight between Muslims...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2018
Shaykh Mahmūd Tawfīq, director of the mosques of al-Minya’s religious endowments, and Rev. Kamāl Rushdī, representative of the Evangelical Church, encouraged participation in the presidential elections, and voting for President ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī, during the scheduled presidential elections on...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2017
Tomorrow (Monday), The Coptic Evangelical Commission for Social Services will organize a forum for cultural dialogue under the title “Together Against Violence” at the Commission’s headquarters in Arḍ al-Sulṭān in al-Minyā.
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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.