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Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2013
Coptic demonstrators demand from the church to be implemented with the Islamic law (Sharī'ah) in the law of personal state. The new law deprives thousands of Copts of a civilian divorce and pushes them to “convert to Islam” if they really want to get divorced. Meanwhile the leaders of the three...
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2013
The Copts in Alexandria panicked after two bombs have reportedly been found in Saint Maximus, Saint Domadius and Saint Moses the Black Church as well as Two Saints Church. An official note of the security authorities confirmed the presence of two bombs in the Coptic Orthodox churches in Alexandria...
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2013
Security authorities have yesterday arrested four new suspects in the happenings of Saint Mark Cathedral in al-'Abbāsīyyah. Pope Tawadros II said later,“ Our hearts are filled with deep mourning. We have not seen any concrete actions taken by the officials about what had happened.”
An official...
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2013
Sāmī 'Anān arrived yesterday for his second visit in the Cathedral to condole with Pope Tawadros. The former Chief of Staff disappeared from the public after President Muhammad Mursi (Mursī) decided in August 2012 to bring him down from his office. Sources of the church, that prepared the meeting,...
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2013
Muhammad 'Alī Bashār, Minister of Local Development, said that they have all came to express their sympathies and confirm the example of being one nation. He also added the possibility of solving this crisis through a calm dialogue, since everyone has a strong will for cooperation. President of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
There is currently a sit-in on Tahrir Square in which people are saying that the Salafīs and Muslim Brotherhood are distorting the image of Islam. 28-year old Karīm Jād Rasmī, one of the members of the sit-in, has a unique story. Salafīs were the reason he converted to Islam and his allegiance has...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Al-Yawm al-Sābi' interviewed a prominent lawyer and legal adviser of the Church, Ramsīs al-Najjār. Al-Najjār participated in the meeting of the Clerical Council held in order to study the Personal Status regulations for Copts, to develop a new list for the Law, including amendments to article 35...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
In a closed meeting between Azhar Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II at the cathedral, the repercussions of the latest events of violence were discussed along with possible attempts to calm the next phase.
A source of the Church revealed that the Pope has taken a surprising...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Ahmad ‘Isá, Director of al-Khusūs Prosecution, ordered that the prime suspect in the violence of al-Khusūs, Najīb Samīr Iskandar, remand under custody for four days pending investigation into the murder of a Muslim man, Muhammad Mahmūd, which ‘allegedly’ led to the eruption of violence between...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb met a number of Coptic activists to discuss the current situation. Al-Tayyīb told the activists that Egypt is the target and that there are attempts to weaken the country. He also said the current situation is dangerous and that the instigators of the strife...
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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.