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Date of source: Monday, December 3, 2012
Amidst rallies to mobilize their congregations to vote 'no', the three major Churches of Egypt declined to attend the presidential ceremony held two days ago and during which the draft constitution was handed out to President Mursī.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Rev. Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Coptic Evangelical denomination and a resigned member of the constituent assembly, said representatives of churches on the panel will not return to it before accordance is reached by all political powers over all articles of the constitution.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Yet another episode of attempts to bring Egypt in an awkwardly embarrassing situation is fostered by expatriate Copts to press the current regime that is only less than 100 days in power coupled with resounding tones about Copts’ rights to seek asylum to the Netherlands. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-...
Date of source: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Christian denominations exhorted President Muhammad Mursī that school syllabi include all epochs of Egyptian history, including the Coptic one, said Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Coptic Evangelical church.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Bishop Pachomius, commenting on calls to stage protests against the Muslim Brotherhood on August 24, said the church does not interfere in politics, adding the church remains a spiritual institution that keeps its distance from political affairs.
Father Rafīq Greish, the media spokesman for the...
Date of source: Monday, September 9, 2013
Rev. Safwāt al-Bayādī, head of the Evangelical Community Council, stated that the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Badi’, who is currently residing in Tora prison, met him prior to the presidential elections. The meeting came within the community partnership initiative between...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Coptic Evangelical denomination in Egypt, rejected Coptic Orthodox Bishop Būlā’s threats to withdraw from the constituent assembly if the constitution did not clearly state non-Muslims’ rights to resort to their own religious laws.
Date of source: Monday, April 21, 2014
Pope Tawadros has received Prime Minister Eng. Ibrahīm Mahlab in the papal headquarters in St. Mark’s Cathedral, Abāssiyah, Cairo. He also received a number of ministers that came to congratulate the Pope on the Day of Resurrection (Easter), including General Sidqī Subhī, general commander of the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2014
The singer ‘Alī al-Hablāwī arranged a ‘Ramadan Evening’ of hymns and religious supplications in an Egyptian Evangelical Church in Ma‘ādī, attended by a Muslim and Christian audience.
Date of source: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Coptic activists cancelled their stand that was supposed to take place at Cairo airport to receive the bodies of the seven Copts that were killed in Libya. This comes after Field Marshal ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī decided to transport the bodies to their hometown Suhag by a military plane. Safwat al-...
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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.