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Date of source: Monday, December 31, 2012
Conflict between the Church and Islamic political movements developed after the Church's withdrawal from the Constituent Assembly and the Presidency's disregard for Coptic demands.
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah said: “The Church does not fear the regime. The future of the State...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Rose al-Yūsuf has published an interview with Midhat Qilādah, president of the Union of Coptic Organisations in Europe, who will hold a meeting with representatives of the European Union to present the conditions for Copts in Egypt under President Muhammad Mursī. In the interview Qilādah claims...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
While Egyptian officials try to contain the repercussions of clashes that erupted between Muslims and Christians in the district of Dahshūr, south of Cairo, which left one killed and dozens others wounded, sectarian violence took place in al-Zaqāzīq, the capital of al-Sharqia governorate.
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Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
A state of anxiety is dominating the village of Dahshūr as the 33 Coptic families that were forced to leave their dwelling places after clashes between Muslims and Copts that left Mu’āz Muhammad Hasab Allāh dead are to return home.
President Muhammad Mursī had ordered all authorities concerned to...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
The sectarian strife in Dahshūr is certainly not the first one and probably will not be the last if Egyptians did not take a pause and look to the future.
The tragic incidents must prompt us to seek haven in the law and ruthlessly apply it on inciters who burn the whole society with their...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
Developments taking place on the lands of Egypt are not compatible with the Egyptian character that has always been resistant to attempts to break or invade it.
Does it really make sense that Egyptians gather outside the embassy of Myanmar to protest persecution and injustice against Muslims while...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
In a bloody terrorist attack by extremist jihādī groups supported by jihādī elements in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (Aug. 5), sixteen Egyptian army soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in the city of Rafah while they were starting to have their iftār meal.
“Jihādists sneaked from the Gaza...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Several intellectuals and politicians, during the time of the former president, Husnī Mubārak, who exclusively confined Coptic issues between the church leaders and the presidential institution, for bringing the Coptic dossier out of the security apparatus' control.
Ramsīs al-Najjār, a Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Firebrand preacher Wajdī Ghunaym lashed out at the opponents of President Muhammad Mursī, dubbing them as "rats and cockroaches that live in infamy and dirt".
"Those who are called the elite are nothing but like barking dogs and know nothing about democracy or that parties may be legitimately...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church's Holy Synod met under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius on Wednesday (July 4) to exchange views about the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt.
Several Synod members expressed concern because "current members of the committees in the constitution-...
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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.