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Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Murshid (Guide) Dr. Muhammad Badī’ on Saturday (March 31) announced fielding Engineer Khayrat al-Shātir, his First Deputy Murshid, as the group’s candidate in the forthcoming presidential elections.
Badī’ denied any understandings between the MB and the ruling Supreme...
Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2012
The three Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches expressed discontent over the constituent assembly in its current lineup as several political powers quitted due to differences between the majority MPs and independent legislators regarding the rates of representation inside the panel.
The...
Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2012
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church Holy Synod’s media committee, said acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius has instructed him to make an official statement regarding a memo received from men of law on the Millī Council pertaining to the constitution panel.
Dr....
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: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Meanwhile, Minister of Interior Maj. General Muhammad Ibrāhīm said there were discussions with some police officers who started an initiative for allowing policemen to grow their beards, adding whoever ignores the rules of the Egyptian police agency banning the growing of beards will be referred to...
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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.