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Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
A new paper [al-Watan] said it quoted the American organization Pew as saying that Coptic population is 4.3 million and the paper claimed that it contacted Pew to confirm the figure but it said that it relied on the numbers provided by the Egyptian statistical organization in 2006, writes Mājid '...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
Bishop Bīsantī of Helwan and al-Ma'sarah stressed utmost respect for presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Mursī in the runoff elections, expressing welcome to an Islamist president who would lead the nation to a civil state taking into account all citizenship rights for all Egyptians.
Bishop Bīsantī...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
The ministry of justice rejected a draft law criminalizing hatemongering on the basis of religion, sex, language, culture or ethnicity on the grounds that the proposed draft is already covered in the penal code articles 160, 161, 161-bis, 171 and 176 and consequently there is no need for an...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
Bishop Pachomius is announcing within days the rules for selecting voters in the Coptic parishes abroad to participate in the election of the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, said Bishop Marqus.
These parishes are located in six areas in America and two in Canada but the names of their...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
The National Council for Women (NCW) under Ambassador Mirvat al-Talāwī is considering rules for female nominations on the constituent assembly, on top of these women come Counselor Tahānī al-Jibālī, Vice President of the Supreme Constitutional Court, and others.
Talāwī said the NCW hopes that women...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
The Azhar prepared an initial list of its representatives on the panel, as the names included the former Muftī of the Republic and incumbent member of the Islamic Research Academy Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil and senior advisor to the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Hassan al-Shāf'ī.. [Author Not Mentioned...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
The Egyptian churches will be represented in the panel with four seats – two for the Coptic Orthodox Church, one for the Coptic Evangelical Church and one for the Coptic Catholic Church. ['Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, June 10, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
The list included Bishop Mūsá of Youth, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, Coptic business magnate Najīb Sawirus, Counselor Munsif Sulaymān and former People's Assembly member Georgette Qilīnī. [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, June 10, p. 3] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A prominent bishop at the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church revealed that one of the reasons to exclude candidates for the Saint Mark chair will be “ill reputation”. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, May 15, p. 1] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A prominent bishop at the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church revealed that one of the reasons to exclude candidates for the Saint Mark chair will be “ill reputation”. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, May 15, p. 1] Read text in Arabic
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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.