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Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2008
The American delegation investigating religious freedoms in Egypt started its meetings with Egyptian prominent religious and public figures. The delegation’s visit to Egypt is receiving wide criticism by almost all Egyptian organisations, intellectuals, and political parties.
Date of source:
The Criminal Court of Sohag gave its verdict in al-Kosheh case, in
which
57 Muslims and 39 Copts were accused. Ninety-two defendants were set free and four Muslim defendants were
sentenced to between one and ten years imprisonment. No one was convicted of murder, although 21 Christians
were...
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2006
Reactions vary between accepting or rejecting the idea of deleting the religion reference from Egyptian identity cards. People of both opinions express their arguments in this article.
Date of source: Monday, August 14, 2006
American citizens living in Egypt submitted an official request to
establish a Mormon church
in Egypt. The authorities turned them down stating that it is not an appropriate
time to grant them permission. The
author met with the head of the denomination and other Christian figures
in Egypt to...
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf interviews the
head of the Washington-based U.S. Copts
Association (USCA), Michael Munīr, who expresses his point of
view on a number of issues, including the
recent suspension of the activities of the U.S. Republican
Institute, the demands of Egyptian judges and the strong...
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
The article deals with the issue of the defrocking of priests and monks as 50 clergymen
have been
defrocked during the past five years, the most recent of whom were two priests in al-Jīza
parish who were
defrocked for committing financial excesses and violating canon laws.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
An article covering a seminar which took place at the Cairo
Center for
Human Rights on problems facing Copts in Egypt in which a number of famous Egyptian intellectuals
participated.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
Mamdouh
Nakhla, head of the Al
-Kalīma Center for Human Rights, is participating with Muhammed al-Dirinī and
‘Aboud al-
Zumour in the authorship of a book entitled "The Hell Capital" about how Christians and
prisoners are treated in
Egypt.
51. Demands for issuing the "Distinguishment Law" to guarantee Copts their political rights in Egypt
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
The Center for
Human Rights Research in Cairo
has agreed to put an end to the discriminatory acts between Muslims and Christians
in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
The rights of Egyptian Bahā’
īs have recently been a subject of heated debate
in the Egyptian media. A number of Bahā’ī
leaders have tried to reach out to officials from the
Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), in an
attempt to establish a “legal framework” which
would solve...
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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.