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Date of source: Sunday, August 3, 2008
The article discusses a lawsuit filed by the Evangelical church in Egypt to secure rights to build churches in new settlements.
Date of source: Monday, July 21, 2008
The article comments on a report that appeared on the Islam Online website in which the grand imām of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyīd Tantāwī emphasizes the importance of not granting Bahā’īs official legitimacy by recognizing their religion on their personal identification papers.
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
The article looks at recent incidents of fundamentalism in Egypt, citing the examples of a university course at Alexandria University and an Islamic thinker who has accused priests of secretly baptising converts.
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2007
The Egyptian government refuses to implement the Administrative Court’s decision which cancelled the annual Jewish celebration at the tomb of Rabbi Abū Ḥassīrah without giving any reasons.
Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2007
Watani presents an overview of the crisis surrounding a plot of land allocated to the church in Marina.
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2007
The author discusses the Minister of Labor ‘Ā’ishah ‘Abd al-Hādī’s response to the International Labour Organization’s report which claimed that Copts were discriminated against in Egypt. She claims that Copts are ten per cent of the Egyptian population, and control 30 per cent of the Egyptian...
Date of source: Saturday, June 23, 2007 to Friday, June 29, 2007
The Commissioners Board at the Supreme Administrative Court has rejected to permit Christians who have embraced Islam to revert back to Christianity. It has called to create a distinguishing sign to be written on their identity cards.
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2007
The Administrative Court realized the danger of conversion to Islam for fulfilling personal aims before asking to re-embrace Christianity. The author argues that the church authorization of divorce will solve complicated problems of conversion.
Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2007
The Administrative Judicial Court affirmed that a father’s conversion from Christianity to Islam does not forbid the son from maintaining his Christian identity.
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2007
The Ministry of Interior has not applied the laws regulating conversion to Islām since 2004. Consequently, all conversions that have taken place since then are invalid. The father of a converted teenager raises this question in his lawsuit against the minister of interior, minister of justice, and...
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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.