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Date of source: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
(Right) now all the political groups in Egypt conform to one main principle, which is to make sure that every part of society is represented in the constituent assembly that will draft the Egyptian constitution. There is no doubt that this principle is credible as long as it is implemented...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Dr. Sālim 'Abd al-Jalīl, assistant minister of endowments for preaching and preachers affairs, said that the 2001 statute has good regulations for building mosques.
Dr. Hamdī Zaqzūq, minister of endowments, said that he is with issuing a new law to regulate building churches.
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Date of source: Thursday, August 4, 2011
The Family House initiative on August 3, 2011, assured its refusal of deploying a U.S. envoy to be responsible for minorities' rights in the Middle East. This envoy will be responsible for defending minorities' rights in Arab and Middle Asian countries.
A joint declaration was signed by Mahmūd...
Date of source: Friday, July 22, 2011
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) approved a few days ago the basic statute of the Azhar's Egyptian Family House, an initiative that is meant to nip in the bud any signs of Muslim-Christian schisms.
Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, the secretary general of the initiative, said the Family House...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Minister of Religion confirms that the national unity tables of breakfast are important indications of the strong relations between Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2010
The author disagrees with the Minister of Endowments Dr. Hamdī Zaqzūq and differentiates between visiting Jerusalem and visiting Ram-Allah and Gaza.
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2010
In an interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Hamdī Zaqzūq, Egyptian minister of Awqaf [Endowments], stressed that the cause of Jerusalem is an Islamic cause in the first place.
He stressed that his call to visit al-Aqsá Mosque emerged from his intention to assert the Islamic right to Jerusalem, denying...
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2010
The author illustrates two points of view about visiting the occupied land in Palestine, one related to Pope Shenouda and the other related to Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, the Egyptian Minister of Awqaf.
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Egyptians continue to react to the news that an Egyptian court has decided on the death sentence for Hammām al-Kamūnī, the man convicted for his part in the shooting of six Christians and a Muslim security officer outside a church in Naj‘ Hammādī in January, 2010.
According to Sawt al-Ummah on...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Egyptian Endowments Minister Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq call for forgiveness and tolerance, qualities that he says already exist in Islam. Zaqzūq provides examples from the Qur'ān that encourage and document tolerance between Christians and Muslims.
He adds that God created people with different colors,...
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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.