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Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2012
Coptic business magnate Najīb Sawirus congratulated elected president Mursī over his win in a free election but criticized his campaign for announcing his victory in advance ahead of the official announcement by the High Presidential Election Commission (HPEC).
“Dr. Mursī is now facing two tough...
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2012
Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī, the head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, said he wishes success for Dr. Mursī and pins high hopes on him to achieve Egyptians’ ambitions for equality, freedom and social justice.
Bayādī called on all churches in Egypt to pray for the new president after he won the first free...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
Ashraf Thābit, the deputy speaker of the dissolved parliament, said he expects the parties to the crisis to reach a political thaw during the next few hours.
Thābit, a member the Salafī al-Nūr Party, said people who have concerns about the sharī’ah should not feel this way because there is nothing...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2012
“This agreement could be detrimental to the Palestinian interests,” said Egypt’s Foreign Minister Muhammad Kāmil ‘Amr. [Muhammad Hindāwī, al-Akhbār, June 15, p. 14] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
Bishop Pachomius is announcing within days the rules for selecting voters in the Coptic parishes abroad to participate in the election of the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, said Bishop Marqus.
These parishes are located in six areas in America and two in Canada but the names of their...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Meanwhile, security agencies seized 101 anti-tank missiles, a two-meter long and half-a-meter wide launching pad, 12255 rounds of fire for heavy arms and three Kalashnikov rifles and arrested four persons on charges of attempting to smuggle them from Liby into Egypt. [Jamāl Husayn and Fāyzah al-...
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
“What is of importance to us in the Egyptian church is the stability of the nation and the person capable of achieving the ambitions of our great people,” he said. [Husnī Mīlād and Fāyzah al-Janbīhī, al-Akhbār, June 17, p. 10] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah said Egypt is ushering in a new stage of its history that requires everyone to stand hand in hand for the sake of its progress.
“All Egyptians must accept whatever the ballot boxes brings and the next president must fulfill his pledges to achieve the hopes of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
“Egypt is a democracy. We all have to welcome the results and cooperate for the re-building of Egypt,” said Tayīb, adding persons who boycott the runoff round have wronged their own nation. [‘Abd al-Jalīl Muhammad and ‘Amr ‘Alā’ al-Dīn, al-Akhbār, June 17, p. 10] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2012
The Coptic Orthodox Church emphasized that it grants full freedom for all its congregation to choose between the two presidential candidates in the runoff, reiterating that it stands at an equal distance towards all candidates, said Bishop Thomas of al-Qūsīyah after a Holy Synod meeting on...
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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.