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Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
Some Coptic organizations announced planned protests outside the UN building in New York during Egyptian President Muhammad Mursī’s visit Monday
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
The mother of Albir ‘Ayyād, a Christian young man charged with disdaining religion, accused the police of arresting and detaining her son at al-Marj police station without a prior arrest warrant from the prosecution and also accused police officers there of torturing him and inciting prisoners to...
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Some Copts are suffering from intimidation and assaults by some ill-mannered Muslims and in the end Christians find themselves victims of fears without any protection by the law or authorities, which brings them to feel alienated and exiled in their own homeland, reads an editorial.
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Middle East Online Website published an article on August 24 entitled “Egypt’s Morsi scraps preventive detention for publishing crimes” by Dominique Soguel. Below is the original text of the article:
Egyptian newspaper editor Islam Afifi was freed after a few hours in custody on Thursday, a...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Egypt State Information Service (SIS) translated the news story came in al-Ahrām on August 25 about President’s Mursī decree to cancel holding into custody measure in publishing crimes. The following is the text as it came on SIS:
Minister of Justice Ahmad Mekki told "Al-Ahram" newspaper on...
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah and head of the media committee in the Coptic Orthodox Church said that President Mursī seems to understand the demands of Copts and stressed that he would apply equal rights to all citizens. This came during a meeting with church leaders on August 22.
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
Muhammad Abū Hāmid, former member of the People’s Assembly, said that [the August 24th] protests do not aim to revolt against legitimacy, oust the elected president, or to burn the Freedom and Justice Party headquarters, but to form a public opposition that can apply pressure to achieve its...
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
Egypt’s President, Muhammad Mursī issued a law Thursday (August 23, hours after the court decision) to bar detention pending the trial of defendants involved in offenses related to the media, which means canceling temporary detention even in crimes listed in Article 179 [Chapter 14] of the penal...
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2012
Bishop Krikor Augustinus of the Roman Catholics in Alexandria also offered congratulations to Minister of Awqāf Tal’at ‘Afīfī over ‘Īd al-Fitr.
Date of source: Thursday, August 16, 2012
Meanwhile, Archpriest Frances Farīd of the Beni Suef parish said President Muhammad Mursī’s decisions to retire Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī and cancel the complementary constitutional declaration ended the military’s grip over power but were taken in the wrong time.
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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.