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Date of source: Monday, December 31, 2012
Conflict between the Church and Islamic political movements developed after the Church's withdrawal from the Constituent Assembly and the Presidency's disregard for Coptic demands.
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah said: “The Church does not fear the regime. The future of the State...
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2013
The Union of Coptic Organisations has called on Europe to bring down the Egypt’s first elected President. The Union, which was prominent among supporters of Ahmad Shafīq during the presidential elections, said that civil society has to support demonstrators who want President Mursī to stand down...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Rose al-Yūsuf has published an interview with Midhat Qilādah, president of the Union of Coptic Organisations in Europe, who will hold a meeting with representatives of the European Union to present the conditions for Copts in Egypt under President Muhammad Mursī. In the interview Qilādah claims...
Date of source: Sunday, December 13, 2015
According to the U.S. Breitbart Online newspaper, leaders of Egypt's Coptic Christian community called for the abolition of an “exploitative” blasphemy law, but praised President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi for saving them from the oppression of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2012
European Union of Coptic Organizations for Human Rights denounced the ruling of Minya court in which 12 Christians were sentenced to life imprisonment while 8 Muslims were acquitted in spite of committing many crimes like holding weapons and explosives, attacking the others to kill them and...
Date of source: Monday, November 7, 2011
The Coptic Organizations Union in Europe “AYKOR” denounced the arrest of the Egyptian Blogger Michael Nabīl and sending the activist 'Alā’ 'Abd al-Fattāh to prison. It asked the Military Council to release Nabīl immediately. Nabīl was sent to a mental hospital last week after being arrested for 7...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Union of Coptic Organisations in Europe called on Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to release detained political activist Michel Nabil.
Nabil has been arrested for writing a blog titled The People and the Army Were Never One Hand and convicted of insulting the military and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2011
For their part, the Coptic youth movement Maspero Youth issued a statement in which it declared its deep concern at the dominion of the Islamist currents. They revealed their total discontent with the raising of the Saudi flag by the Islamists, and said they were fully prepared to defend the option...
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2011
Some Egyptian Christian emigrants have always been parroting during the former regime's time that they could not come to Egypt to convene meetings and forums for dialogue over the Christian citizens' cares and problems as well as discrimination and challenges facing equality in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2011
'Amr Khālid, Islamic preacher, said that Islam rejects the religious state because it makes a person holy and talks on behalf of Allah, which is rejected both religiously and politically.
In a European Union of Coptic Organizations for Human Rights conference, Khālid rejected using religion in...
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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.