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Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
When terrorist attacks erupted in 1996 in Minya, the chief of security told the priest of the church of Archangel Mikhail in Assiut, that for security reasons it was necessary to build a higher wall around the church and replace its old wooden doors with new ones. Other parts of the church were...
Date of source: Friday, August 3, 2001
President Mubarak issued a presidential decree approving the new management board of the Coptic Endowments Authority. Officials within the authority explain that the problems between the authority and the Ministry of Endowments are dissolving after the authority reclaimed 600 feddans. The total...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2001
The Cassation Court accepted the appeals presented by the Prosecutor General and the families of the victims of Al-Kosheh riots against the rulings handed down in the case. The court decided to retry all the 92 defendants of the case by a different Assiut court.
Date of source: Sunday, July 22, 2001
The Church of St. John the Baptist, in Assiut, and the Evangelical Church of Abu Hammad, in Al-Sharqiya, were given restoration licenses by the governor of Assiut and the town council of Abu Hammad, respectively. However, security forces intervened and stopped the restoration works in the two...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The leader of the military wing of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and another member of the wing were referred to the Emergency State Security Court. They are accused of joining an illegal group with the purpose of disrupting the rule of law and doing harm to social peace.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
There is a relationship of a special kind between the nation and the Copts. That relationship was represented in individual Copts who were rich or highly educated who had special relationships with the governor. The author is of the opinion that if a group of Muslim and Christian wise men is formed...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Three million Christians and Muslims gathered on the western [Nile] bank in Assiut to celebrate the Virgin mulid. Some of the visitors were asked if they were affected by what was published on the expelled monk. They answered that nothing can affect their love for the monastery.
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
Many Egyptian intellectuals and public figures issued a statement titled "a call to Egyptians" demanding the state investigate from where the information leaked to Al-Nabaa paper.
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
The head of Al-Muharraq monastery said that the expelled monk accused him of getting part of the gold which he stole from a woman and of moral matters because he expelled him and refused his return to the monastery. He recounted how the relation of the expelled monk started with the monastery and...
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2001
The author believes that this crisis was engineered as a way for outside bodies to become involved in Egypt’s internal affairs. He questions the aims behind publishing the article and the timing. He claims it was not an attack on Copts but on the whole of Egypt and national unity.
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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.