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Date of source: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
State Security Prosecution summoned Yūsuf Zaydān, Egyptian scholar who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies and author of Al-Lahut al-'Arabi [The Roots of Religious Violence].
A number of Coptic organizations had filed lawsuits against Zaydān accusing him of disdaining Christianity (Ahmad...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The heads of the Egyptian Churches signed the Constitution of the “Egyptian Churches Council” at the Coptic Cultural Center in Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in al-‘Abbāsīyyah. The Egyptian Churches Council includes the Coptic Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Churches as long as Roman...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Below is the full text of the article as it came in Associated Press:
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Four foreigners were arrested in Libya on suspicion of distributing books about Christianity and proselytizing, a Libyan police spokesman said on Saturday.
Police spokesman Hussein bin Hamid said the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Dr. Shawqī Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Karīm, professor of jurisprudence at the Azhar University branch in Tantā, was elected to be the new Muftī of the Republic. He will replace Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah whose term will end on March 3, 2013 (Lu’ay ‘Alī, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Feb. 12, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Islamic newspaper al-Misrīyūn published an article entitled “Pope Tawadros complain to Germany about Egypt”.
After his three-day visit to Egypt, the German Volker Kauder, a CDU politician and Chairman of the CDU/CSU [Christian Democratic Union and Christian Secular Union] parliamentary group...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Expatriate Copts are launching a conference today (February 12) in Amsterdam the capital of the Netherlands. The report came on "Copts United website" as follows:
Dutch Coptic Association holds conference of “Egypt under MB rule”
By-Girgis Tawfik | 7 February 2013
Coptic Dutch Association holds an...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Copts were angered by statements of al-Shaykh Abū Islām, owner of al-Ummah Satellite Channel, against Christianity. Copts considered his statements offensive to the Christ and Virgin Mary, demanding the Public Prosecutor to arrest him.
Najīb Jubrā’īl, Coptic lawyer and head of the Egyptian Union of...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Dozens of Copts assembled in Samallūt Township outside of the office building of al-Minya Governorate, demonstrating against the state of lawlessness, thuggery, and kidnapping spreading in the Governorate, demanding the return of security in the streets.
Midhat Loweis Jirjis [a Copt] said that a...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will settle the issue of banning the YouTube website in Egypt after the verdict of the Administrative Court to ban the website for a month. The verdict was based on the YouTube-broadcasted video discrediting Prophet Muhammad and Islam, which...
6. For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church: Pope Benedict announces his resignation
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
DECLARATIO
(Video)
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my...
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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.