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Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Bishop of Benha and Quweisna asked the Governor of Qalyubiya to give a permission for restoring the church of the Holy Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel. A permit, ratified by the governor, was issued approving the restoration and the building of a four-story building to be used for social...
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2001
Saad Eddin Ibrahim said that because he is currently being tried before Egypt’s Higher State Security Court on charges which include his lectures and writings on religious freedom and minority rights, including those of Egyptian Copts, his defense lawyer requested him to decline the invitation to...
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001 to Friday, March 30, 2001
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom met with Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima and asked him about the rulings given in Al-Kosheh killings, underage Christian girls turning to Islam and about the non-inclusion of the Coptic period in the history syllabus. Coptic Catholic Bishop...
Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2001
President Mubarak’s rebuilding order will bring back the demolished building belonging to the Bishopric of Shubra Al-Kheima, but will it stop any recurrence of like events anywhere in Egypt? We have heard of no investigation on the event, of no questioning of those behind the demolition order or of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2001 to Friday, March 23, 2001
The author recounts the stories of some of the emigrant Copts, to reach the conclusion that their claims about Copts being persecuted in Egypt are nothing but lies. He believes that the problem is not simply with some of those living outside Egypt, but also with a small number of people helping...
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2001
The author thanked President Mubarak for his decision concerning the services building of the Church of Soubra Al-Kheima. He said that Mubarak did not hesitate to grant approval for any application filed with him in this respect. The real problem lies in the long, tedious and humiliating journey...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
President Mubarak ordered the rebuilding of the services building of the church of Shoubra Al-Kheima, which was destroyed by the local authority, who depended on the claim that no permission had been given to built it. Pope Shenouda sent the President a telegram in which he thanked him for his...
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2001
Bishop Marcos reported that President Mubarak granted a permit to build a church in Shoubra Al-Kheima. This decision came after the US Copts Association organized an international protest against the demolition of a building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church. It is practice of Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2000
For three days, Al-Khanka had lived in nervousness after a sit-in-strike, by Copts inside a Church which was closed ten years ago, threatened to cause communal unrest. The published report tells of the crisis, and the wise role of Pope Shenouda who was responsible for it ending peacefully.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2000
In this article, Youssef Sidhom wrote about "Unifying the rules that control building, expanding and restoring the worship places in order to achieve equality among all citizens in spite of their different religions." Sidhom wants equal rules for building mosques and churches.
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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.