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Date of source: Saturday, August 23, 2014
A number of Muslims in the Daqūf Village in Samalūt has saved yesterday the Church of Virgin Mary in the village from a fire due to an electrical spark.
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2005
In the beginning, the church had obtained a permission to build a service facility over a plot of 500 square meters it owned and surrounded with a mud brick wall. Part of the wall had fallen down due to several cracks and strong winds. The wall was not re-built due to rejection by the security...
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
The review
focuses on a feast celebrating the anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s stay in Upper Egypt during the
visit of
the Holy Family to Egypt, attended by two million Coptic and Muslim visitors.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
During his meeting with leaders of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, Congressman Frank Wolf raised yesterday the issues of Coptic persecution, Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour’s imprisonment and Sudanese refugees in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
A top official from the Religious Freedoms Committee of the U.S. Congress visited the Upper Egyptian governorate of Asyout last Thursday and met with a number of priests including Father Makarius at Abu Qurqās and bishop Paphnotius of Samāllout.
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2005
Freedom to change religion, constructing churches, and employment without discrimination based on religion are the main controversial issues between the Church and the state. They also constitute the potential sources of any conflict that may arise between the two sides.
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2005
Christmas comes this year as we lick the wounds of 2004, and look forward to a new year that would bring in peace, calm, and stability.
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: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
31 young people were killed in a 24 July accident. The accident was the fourth major crash on Upper Egyptian highways this month. Egypt has the highest highway fatality rate of any country in the world that reports such statistics.
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 11, 1999
An overview of traffic accidents including the tragic bus accident in which 31 Coptic youth died.
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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.