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Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 2010
The article highlights the disappearance of a priest’s wife in Upper Egypt. Copts gathered in the church of St. George, Dayr Mawās to protest the disappearance of the priest’s wife and the failure of the security services to discover the reasons behind such an accident.
The last call received...
Date of source: Saturday, April 28, 2007
A conflict between the church and a Coptic family over the possession of a house in the Upper Egyptian village of Dayr Mawwās ignited sectarian violence in the village when the Coptic family asked for the help of their Muslim neighbors and burnt the car of the bishop and some Coptic’ businesses.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
A Coptic citizen demands the
invalidity of
his under-aged daughter’s conversion to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2000
The file of the churches problems refuses to be closed. Whenever we think that the problems are over, we find there are more problems, in an endless stream of cases. If a presidential decree issued last December has already canceled the necessity to present church repair requests to the governors...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2000
The letter of the Bishop of Deir Mawass in Minya governorate to Watani newspaper, which was published under in the article titled: "The Echoes of the Statement of the Hundred", provoked rage in the hearts of Muslims and Christians together. They protest that his narration of the matter he relates...
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
"The Statement of the Hundred" that was published in the same place last week was divided into three parts: a call to the nation, recommendations to the officials, and a list with the hundred names who had signed this statement. Starting from this week, we will screen the reactions to the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 1999
Nobody ever thought that the young man dressed in a suit and tarboush [head cover used widely in Egypt until the 1950’s], sitting in a cafe in [the city of] Ismailia with some of his friends, would be the founder of the biggest violent group in Egypt throughout the twentieth century. That was in...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
After spending a very calm period, the village of Sao, which lies between Al-Minya and Assiut, witnessed an incident leading to the death of two people and injuring two other people.
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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.