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Date of source: Thursday, October 4, 2012
In an attempt to cool down an explosive situation in Beni Suef, a prosecutor in the Upper Egyptian governorate ordered Nabīl Nādī Rizq, 9, and Mīnā Nādī Faraj, 10, be placed in a reformatory for causing sectarian troubles after they urinated on a copy of the Qur’ān. [Mustafá ‘Arafah, Rose al-Yūsuf ...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Coptic clerics and intellectuals confirmed that the delay in the visit of the president Dr. Muhammad Mursī, to the Church so far may be caused by the church's preoccupation with the papal elections for the selection of the new pope.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Bishop Angelus of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom said the Coptic community in Britain has been eagerly watching the developments of the Arab Spring and protests and political turmoil that followed, adding Copts in the UK are concerned about the long-term reverberations of the...
Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2012
Christian political figures openly rejected forming forces to protect ethnic or religious minorities in Iraq, revealing the setting up of a committee to draft a law guaranteeing the administrative and cultural rights of minorities.
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Monk Bigmy, the deputy of acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius in Marsa Matrouh governorate, said the church has presented to the prosecution the birth certificate of Sarah Ishaq ‘Abd al-Malāk, a Christian girl who reportedly married a Muslim young man. The certificate...
Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2012
Developments in Rafah would not stand apology or interpretation under any justifications and from any source because it is a precedent that could be repeated in other sites unless the political, security and social powers that be stand up firmly against this crime.
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Police forces in Maghāghah, al-Minya governorate, managed on Wednesday (October 31) to contain sectarian clashes between Muslim and Christian students that erupted after a quarrel over priority to get seats in a train. The clashes left five wounded.
Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2012
Egyptian diplomats in Cairo, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, said Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd did very well when he turned down an offer to be Egypt’s ambassador to the Vatican, which itself could have objected, adding this could have been a...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd ordered immediate investigations into reports accusing the Dutch ambassador in Cairo of attempting to foment sectarian strife by providing his country with misinformation about the conditions of Copts in Egypt. [‘Umar al-Khūlī, al-Sabāh, Oct. 2, p. 3] Read...
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hamdīn Sabbāhī, the founder of the Egyptian Popular Current and former presidential candidate, called for keeping intact the text of Article 2 as it read in the 1971 constitution, adding the text guarantees the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah as a main source of legislation and in the same...
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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.