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Date of source: Sunday, January 14, 2007
The author wonders about the increasing coverage of Coptic affairs in Egyptian press, and points to a number of specific periodicals that have increased their focus on such issues.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
The cases of Christian conversions to Islām are now increasing which may lead to sectarian strife.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 26, 2006
The
author comments on killing a Catholic 16-year-old girl
in Minia because of her relation with a Muslim man.
He says that it was the first incident of murder to occur
inside a Catholic community, which shows that it
has been influenced by the Orthodox religious hard-liners and the
violence...
Date of source: Sunday, December 17, 2006
The article discusses incidents of sectarian strife that erupt in Upper Egypt between Muslims and Copts over issues such as land and watering rights. It details a number of personal accounts of violence over these issues.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
The prosecution department of Minya investigated the priest of the Holy Virgin
church in Beni Walmis. The priest said that he could not identify the persons who attacked the church because he is
a new comer to the village. He denied that one of the Christians shot bullets as a celebration of the...
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2002
In the night of the Greater Bairam, a
reconciliation meeting was held among the residents of Beni Walmis village, which witnessed the recent riot events
between Muslims and Christians. Residents of the village said that the aim of the meeting was to condemn the riots
and to prove that Muslims...
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Text of lecture about a declining Christianity in the Middle East. Dalrymple compares between his travels in the mid nineties to when he collected material for his book ‘From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East,’ and recently travelled to the areas he had visited...
Date of source:
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a
blasphemous article, by
a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against
the article, the Government was
accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Jamāl Badāwī refers to the importance of a book by Coptic historian
Sawirus Ibn al-
Muqaffac entitled, ‘Tārīkh alĀbā’ al-Batārikah’ [The History of
Patriarchs]. The book presents a clear picture of the relationship between Copts and Muslims during the
early Islamic
state.
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Majdī Khalīl discusses the forced disappearance of Coptic girls. The claims around this phenomenon are not new, however it is being announced more frequently. Khalīl discusses the reasons why Coptic families are more often daring to announce the disappearance of their girls, and the reasons behind...
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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.