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Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
“The center, concerned with Coptic affairs, emphasizes that the elected president is one of all Egyptians and that ballot boxes bring about legitimacy and this is must be respected by everyone as this is the one of the most important rules of democracy,” said ECDSHR Chairman Joseph Malāk.
The...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Meanwhile, the state commissioners authority in Alexandria decided to postpone the first session of a lawsuit filed by lawyers for the Two Saints Church, Joseph Malāk and Samīr al-‘Ādlī, against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Alexandria security director, the prime minister and...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The Supreme State Security service has concluded its investigations into the explosions at the Church of Saint Mark and Saint Peter on January 1 2011 which killed twenty people and injured close to a hundred. The lawyer for the victims, Joseph Malāk, said the investigations into the issue had...
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2013
The Copts of Alexandria are distressed on the constant accusations of Islamists towards the Church of allegedly igniting her flocks to spread chaos and disorder, and most recently of plotting against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
In a statement disclosed exclusively to al-Wafd, Dr. Kamīl Siddīq,...
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2012
The Alexandria court of urgent matters decided to adjourn the case of the Church of the Two Saints to the March 18 session in order to allow the plaintiffs to photocopy the investigations file at the supreme state security prosecution on the January 1, 2011 bombing attack that left dozens killed or...
Date of source: Monday, April 25, 2016
Nādir Marqus, a member of the General Congregation Council (the Milli Council) of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria, said that a young man breached the church of St. Mary in al-Maʿ ūrah Beach area, east of Alexandria, on Monday. The man smashed the suspended cross on its facade and the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2016
Jawzīf Malāk a human rights delegate for the state of minorities with the United Nations reported that there is a fear that the Wādī al-Riyān Monastery crisis is escalating between the two parties and the rights organizations that are becoming involved in the matter. Malāk demanded that the state...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Egyptian Center for Development Studies and Human Rights (ECDSHR) called on President-elect Muḥammad Mursī to improve the affairs of Copts as first-class citizens by activating the principles of civil state on the ground, not through laws. [Amīrah Fatḥī, al-Wafd, June 26, p. 3] Read original...
Date of source: Saturday, June 2, 2012
Penetrating the Coptic boycott against Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Muhammad Mursī for the first time, two envoys of Bishops Bula and Armiyā, one of them a businessman, held a secret meeting with Secretary General of the group’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) ‘Isām al-‘Iryān. [...
Date of source: Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria threatened protests in response to what it described as the slow pace of investigations into the church bombing that took place during Coptic Christmas celebrations this year.
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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.