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Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
Pope Shenouda
III of Alexandria has given orders to defrock two priests for violating the
church’s teachings.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
With the attendance of a large number of Egyptian religious and
political figures,
Bishop Antonius Najīb, 71, was ordained yesterday as the new patriarch of Coptic
Catholics in Egypt at
the Virgin Mary Cathedral in Nasr City, Cairo.
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2006 to Friday, April 28, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf publishes part VI of Talāl al-
Ansārī’s memoirs.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
The Egyptian
Ministry of
Awqāf [endowments] has recently endorsed a proposal to unify the call to prayer that is
broadcast
from thousands of different loudspeakers in the country’s capital.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006 to Friday, April 21, 2006
Talāl al-Ansārī, the second defendant in the so-called al-Fanīya al-‘Askarīya [Armed Forces Technical College] case of the 1974 abortive
coup, continues publishing episodes of his diary in Rose al-Yousuf magazine, recounting how he received
strict orders from first defendant Sālih Sarīya to deny...
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
The Head of the Department of Transport and Bridges Equipment in Cairo was arrested together with his wife for forming a group promoting ideas against Islam. He issued a fatwa to his followers that they were not obliged to pray in the direction of the Kiblah while performing prayers. He also denied...
Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2006
A discussion of sectarian violence in Egypt at the Andalusia Centre for Studies on Reconciliation and Combating Violence and the Development of Democracy Group.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
The Egyptian Minister of Culture decided that Egypt will contribute a huge stone of Assuan granite to the monument for the Unknown Child in The Netherlands. His decision was followed by the visit of Mirjam and Sil van Oort, two representatives of the Rose Foundation, between December 7 and 17 2003...
Date of source: Sunday, November 23, 2003
The article reports the sectarian strife incidents two weeks ago in Gerza village in the south Giza district of al Ayat. It is un reasonable and illegal that whenever violent events erupt between Egyptian Muslims and Christians, a veil of obscur ity is imposed under the pretext of “avoiding...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Yesterday night, the prosecution completed preliminary investigations over the incidents took place three days ago between Muslims and Copts in a village close to the city of Al-Ayyat. It ordered eight Muslims to jail on charges of “causing deliberate damage to houses of some citizens, attacking...
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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.