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Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2014
The EgyptianChurch celebrated today the festival of mourning for Pope Kyrillos VI, the 116th Pope of the Coptic Church, at his shrine and church, recently inaugurated by Pope Tawadros II, at the Monastery of Saint Mina near Alexandria. The service was attended by a large number of priests and...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The director of the Egyptian Center for Development Studies and Human Rights, and lawyer for the Coptic Church of Saint Mark and Pope Peter (also known as the Church of the Two Saints), Joseph Malāk, has filed a complaint to the Attorney General accusing many prominent figures, including ‘Abd al-...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The Criminal Court in Naj’ Hammādī (Nag Hammadi) has sentenced eight men accused of killing two Copts to death, and transferred their papers to the Muftī and the General Prosecution for further legal opinion. Security services had originally received a report on 26th January 2011 of the death of Mu...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Pope Tawadros II finished his two-day visit to Alexandria. The main goal of the visit was the consecration of the Church of Pope Kyrollos VI in the St. Mina Monastery in Maryūt, West of Alexandria, in addition to ordaining 15 priests (Ahmad Badrāwī, al-Shurūq, Mar. 4, p. 2). Read original text in...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria has sharply condemned the recurrence of attacks against Egyptian Christians in Libya. The patriarchate called on the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and state institutions to take quick measures in order to identify the perpetrators who killed the seven...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2014
Prominent Christians and organizations worldwide voiced their alarm as the city of Mosul was emptied of Christians for the first time in the history of Iraq. The Egyptian Orthodox Church condemned the forced displacement of Christians from Mosul, while Pope Francis expressed his feelings of shame...
Date of source: Friday, July 25, 2014
The media office of the Coptic Orthodox Church stated that Pope Tawadros had offered his best wishes to Grand Imām Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib, shaykhs of the Azhar, and all Muslims on the occasion of ‘Īd al-Fitr (Eid al-Fitr).
Date of source: Monday, March 3, 2014
According to Bishop Royce Morcos, spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II will not present the patriarch election list to the Egyptian president this week, because he is still in the stage of making the final adjustments that were agreed upon during the seminar at the St....
Date of source: Monday, March 3, 2014
Coptic intellectuals and activists have set certain conditions to be met before they give their support to a presidential candidate, be it al-Sīsī or someone else. , Jamāl As’ad, writer and intellectual, said that the Copts need a president who can unite the Egyptians and who can solve Egypt’s...
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2014
Pope Tawadros II ordained three new priests. Furthermore, in an interview with a Kuwaiti newspaper he stated that Egypt was and will remain the first defense line of the Arab Gulf States, hailing the stance taken by Saudi Arabic, Kuwait and the UAE as historic. The Pope stated that national...
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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.