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Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Egyptian Minister of Endowments says that a new law regulating the building of churches is currently under study and will be drafted in the coming legislative period...
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Interreligious tensions in Egypt are, unfortunately, very often related to church construction.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Ashraf Madbūlī's article quotes Endowments Minister Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, who says that the People's Assembly will debate a personal affairs law for Christians in the current parliamentary session. Zaqzūq also says that the government is "mulling a new law to regulate the building of mosques and...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
Diana Māhir Ghālī reviews this weekend's opinion articles dealing with the Alexandria church attack...
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2011
In mosques across the region on Friday, Muslim clerics preached tolerance and called for Muslim/Christian unity against acts of terrorism.
"Such crimes, which do not differentiate between Muslim and Christian or between a man and a woman, were rejected by the Prophet," says Egypt's Grand Muftī ‘Alī...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2011
As a consequence of the suicide bombing that killed 21 people and injured nearly 100 in Alexandria, Egyptian authorities have tightened security around churches. Meanwhile, seven people were questioned about the New year's Day attack outside the the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope...
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2010
It seems the Ministry of Endowments will play an important role in the next year's presidential elections.
This has become evident from the oral instructions that mosque Imāms and preachers have received from the head of the ministry's religious affairs sector, Shawqī ‘Abd al-Latīf.
The report says...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Nine hundred imāms and orators are expected to be assigned by the Ministry of Endowments. Egypt’s Minister of Endowments, Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, stressed the serious and strict measures that are to be applied in the tests.
3500 of this year's graduates of the Azhar religious faculties had applied...
Date of source: Friday, December 3, 2010
Endowments Minister Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq held a press conference yesterday to announce the Supreme Council for Islamic Affair’s summit on the situation in Jerusalem that is to be held next February. During the conference, Zaqzūq renewed his call for Muslims to visit Jerusalem with an Israeli visa,...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 30, 2010
In a speech yesterday, Endowments Minster Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq criticized the Salafīs for their obsession with appearances, saying they embarrass Islam with their short jilbabs (a long, loose-fitting garment for women), hats, and flip-flops. Zaqzūq also said that all Egyptian Muslims are Salafīs...
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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.