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Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2012
The Holy Synod under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius announced that the deadline for receiving applications for running in the elections to succeed Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March, will expire on Saturday (May 19). [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, May 18, p. 7] Read text in...
Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2012
Meanwhile, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, the chairman of the registration committee in the papal elections, said nearly 700 voters archons from the different parishes were registered, adding the issue of registering expatriate Copts has not been settled yet. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm,...
Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2012
“We will mobilize the whole Egyptian people to protest if Article 2 of the Constitution failed to spell out the Islamic sharī’ah as the main source of legislation,” said Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, the vice chairman of the board of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) group. [Muhammad Abū al-‘Aynayn...
Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2012
“We will mobilize the whole Egyptian people to protest if Article 2 of the Constitution failed to spell out the Islamic sharī’ah as the main source of legislation,” said Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, the vice chairman of the board of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) group. [Muhammad Abū al-‘Aynayn...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Copts’ choices will not be out of these three after they dropped Dr. ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh out of their calculations the moment he struck alliances with Islamist groups, let alone his past as one of the leading turncoats from the Muslim Brotherhood group and the emergence of file photos of...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
In another development, the al-Minya Criminal Court and the Emergency Supreme State Prosecution Court sentenced 12 to rigorous life term and acquitted eight others for fomenting sectarian strife in Abū Qurqās, al-Minya, and endangering national uinity in the Upper Egyptian governorate.
The convi...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah, for his part, urged all segments of the Egyptian society to do their national duty by actively participating in the presidential elections to be held on Wednesday (May 23) and Thursday (May 24).
Jum’ah called for respecting the will of the people and the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The central committee on national awareness for Copts, affiliated to the Orthodox Church in Alexandria, apologized for not convening a conference titled “No for Directing (voters),” which was supposed to be held on Monday (May 21), due to pressures, the committee said in a statement.
The committee...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The Church’s Holy Synod reiterated that it will not back a certain candidate versus another, adding it stands on the same distance towards all candidates but prays that the Lord would choose for Egypt the best one who would observe justice and equality among all citizens.
“The church leaves the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius called on Muslims and Copts to participate in the election of a new president.
“We, as a church, believe that a good ruler is sent by the Lord. Any person, Christian or not Christian, should shoulder that spiritual responsibility of...
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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.