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Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2007
Leaders of the Jihād Islamic group are about to issue their report on their adjusted strategies and tactics against using violence. While the majority of the group seems to approve of the amendments, some of the leaders consider the document unreliable according to possibility of having been...
Date of source: Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Administrative Court rejects the law-suit promoted by Yūsuf al-Badrī to have Wafā’ Constantine arraigning before the court to declare her religion. While Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī denounced the court’s rejection and claimed that Constantine was under forced residence in a Coptic monastery,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 28, 2007
A conflict between the church and a Coptic family over the possession of a house in the Upper Egyptian village of Dayr Mawwās ignited sectarian violence in the village when the Coptic family asked for the help of their Muslim neighbors and burnt the car of the bishop and some Coptic’ businesses.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Al-Hayāh satellite channels broadcast Christian programs in which some clergymen allegedly attacked Muslims and Islam. The programs sparked severe anger of Muslims in Egypt. Consequently a number of Egyptian members of parliament asked to establish an equivalent Muslim channel to respond to al-...
Date of source: Saturday, April 28, 2007
The second session of the laymen’s conference did no better than the first. The session sparked severe reactions from the church. It called to reword the four Gospels of the New Testament and named the monastic life as “the random system.”
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The second session of the laymen’s conference will be held on April 26-27, 2007. While laymen sent out personal invitations to Pope Shenouda III and all the members of the Holy Synod, the Coptic Orthodox Church still appears to be boycotting the conference. Pope Shenouda described the conference as...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
TheJihād Group officially declares their initiative to cease of the use of violence. While many of the Islamic groups approved of the initiative, many seem to complicate the issue.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The latest terrorist attacks in Algeria and Morocco were a considerable warning of the increasing power of the Islamic groups in general and that of al-Qā‘idah in particular. The attacks sparked world wide protests and many people attributed them to the U.S. strategy in the Middle East.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2007
This press review presents a summary of a series of articles published in Rose al-Yūsuf. Hānī Labīb writes about the history of the relationship between the pope as the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and the president of the Republic of Egypt from the mandate of Jamāl ‘Abd al-Nāsir until the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Amnesty International issued its annual report on Egypt. The
report aroused the anger of the Egyptian government because it referred to alleged violations and abuses that contradict
international human rights in Egypt. The Egyptian government rejected the report and described it as “unjust 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.