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Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2012
The three Egyptian Christian denominations denied that they received a letter form the People’s Assembly to participate in the constitution panel. [‘Abd al-Wahāb, Al-Wafd, March 25, 2012, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Moving to church affairs, some coalitions, assemblies and leagues of supporters of Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Shenouda III sent cables to the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod backing Bishop Mūsá of Youths as new patriarch of Alexandria and the see of Saint Mark. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Some Coptic organizations and activists, in a statement they called the March 30 Declaration, vehemently rejected the 100-member panel and “attempts by certain groups to draft the new Egyptian Constitution alone,” urging the Egyptian Church to immediately announce its position on the panel and...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church, in the statement, called on SCAF Chairman Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī to approve a constitution panel that is representative of all Egyptians without discrimination among the citizens of Egypt on religious or ethnic basis. [Rajab Ramadān, Muhammad Abū al-‘...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Alexandria Millī Council sent a statement on Friday (March 30) to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in which it condemned the mechanisms used to form a constitution-drafting assembly.
The Council stressed equality among all Egyptians in rights and duties regardless of religious...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Azhar apologized for not participating in the constituent assembly and expressed reservations over its “poor” representation in the panel after it decided to withdraw Wāsil from it.
The decision was taken during a meeting of the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy under Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The scholars said that religious groups “have to return to their barracks”!
“It was a vital matter that the Azhar take its representative out of the constitution assembly simply because it is not proper for the stature of the Azhar to participate in a panel marked by domination not partnership and...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā, Islamic thinker and presidential hopeful, said that the rumors about his tensions with Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, and Christians or his claims that churches had weapons were groundless. [Author not mentioned, al-Akhbār, March 28, 2012, p. 10] Read...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Caretaker patriarch Bishop Bakhomius (Pachomius) denied any amendments in the 1957 statute on patriarch election, affirming that any other statements about extending the duration of this interim period pending the election of a new pope or amending the statute are not true. [Mahmūd Duwayr, al-Ahālī...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
In a statement, the Holy Synod said that the coming Constitution should underline the civil nature of the state and citizenship rights among all citizens and that Article 2 in the Constitution should guarantee the rights of Copts to refer to their Christian law on all matters related to their...
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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.