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Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2012
The so-called Orthodox Church Guards coalition rejected protests by Coptic women on Sunday (May 19) at the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah against Secretary of the Holy Synod Bishop Bīshūy for his calls on Christian women to observe modesty in dress codes like Muslim...
Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood group will be the first association to be promulgated after the People’s Assembly will have passed the new law on non-governmental organizations, currently under debate, said an official in the Freedom and Justice Party. [Muhammad Khayyāl and Ahmad ‘Abd al-Halīm, al-Shurūq al...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Presidential candidate Ahmad Shafīq said Christians are full partners in the nation, pledging if he won the elections, he would choose a highly-efficient Christian woman as vice president to cover religion and sex in the same time. [Ashraf Sharaf and Sarhān Sinnārah, al-Akhbār, May 16, p. 5] Read...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the new constitution will of Egypt will add in its second article a phrase granting non-Muslims to have recourse to their own laws in matters of personal status. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Khāliq, al-Ahrām, May 15, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2012
Copts are partners in the nation for 14 centuries now and there will be no more discrimination between Muslims and Copts as both will be equal in the eye of the law, said presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā at the Mar Girgis Church in Kūm Hamādah, al-Beheira governorate on Thursday (...
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2012
A conference on president election criteria held by several Coptic organizations on Sunday (May 6) was marred by splits and squabbles after Dr. Sharīf Dūs, Chairman of the General Coptic Organization in Egypt (GCOE), expressed support for presidential candidate ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh. [‘Abd al...
Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church Guards Coalition denounced the protests in al-Tahrīr and al-‘Abbāssīyah, adding proponents of those protest calls “seek the division of the nation into factions fighting one another”. [Ghādah ‘Abd al-Hāfiz, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 5, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Thousands of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate for Egypt’s presidency, Muhammad Mursī, gathered outside the ‘Amr Ibn al-‘Ās Mosque on Monday (April 30) evening in what was considered as a disguised violation of the law that prohibits the use of mosques to hold public rallies. [Nismah...
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2012
The al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah’s support for presidential candidate ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh would offer a chance for at least one Islamist hopeful in the runoff round of the presidential elections, if not two, said the Da’wah spokesman ‘Abd al-Mun’im al-Shaht in statements during a press conference...
Date of source: Friday, April 27, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius pledged the church will not interfere in Christians’ votes to elect a president of the republic, adding Copts demand that the clear mention of civil state be included in the constitution. [Khayr Rāghib, Yāsir Shimīs, Hamdī Qāsim, Ahmad...
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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.