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Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The executive committee of the Evangelical general assembly expressed its concerns about the constituent assembly lineup drafting the Egyptian constitution and describe it as "disappointing".
For his part, Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, vice-president of the Coptic Evangelical Church, and General Director...
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2012
There are concerns about the approaches of drafting the new Egyptian Constitution which is currently dominating the political climate in Egypt. These concerns are associated with the criteria for the formation of the constituent assembly and its members. So far the final shape of the assembly is...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Since the January 25 Revolution there have been a number of attempts aiming at harming Egypt via the implantation of the seeds of sectarian sedition, such as recent efforts to divide Egypt into a Coptic and an Islamic state.
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic Churches as well as the Episcopal Church and the Roman Orthodox Church set a date on March 3, 2012 for a joint ecumenical meeting at the offices of the Middle Eastern Council of Churches to discuss different public and theological issues. The decision...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
High ranking officials of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) together with their counterparts from the Coptic Evanglelical Church have issued a document of ten articles confirming the various rights of religious minorities and above all the Coptic denominations.
This was during a meeting in the MB...
Date of source: Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Evangelical Community submitted a number of proposals about the draft law for building houses of worship submitted to the Council of Ministers, as Andrea Zakī, deputy head of the Evangelical Community Council, sent a letter to Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Representatives of the three Egyptian Churches and several Coptic activists condemned on Tuesday a demand made to the US Congress by some expatriate Copts calling for international protection for Coptic Christians in Egypt.
Bishop Markos of Shubra al-Kheima told Al-Masry Al-Youm that he rejects...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The Egyptian society is in bad need for reconciliation, starting from within each and every Egyptian, so that the people may purge themselves of the dirt that smeared their souls during many years of autocracy and repression, writes Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Evangelical denomination in...
Date of source: Thursday, March 17, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali writes a press review on three main issues that are currently occupying the pages of newspapers: the second article in the constitution that states: "Islam is the Religion of the State. Arabic is its official language, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Sharī...
23. Vatican Studies Azhar's Decision to Freeze Dialogue, Egyptian Churches Demand Continued Meetings
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
In the Vatican’s first official statement since the Azhar’s decision to freeze religious dialogue, Priest Federico Lombardi says that the Vatican is studying the Azhar’s decision, but that it still desires to hold dialogue between all religions.
Azhar spokesman Muhammad Rifā'ah al-Tahtāwī pointed...
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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.