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Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Meanwhile, Bishop Pachomius said there is no one speaking on behalf of the church or claiming he represented Copts, adding no instructions were made to favor any of the candidates to the papal chair.
Priest Angelus, the secretary of Bishop Pachomius, denied reports claiming the acting patriarch’s...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2012
“The justice I know is blindfolded, which means that there is no difference between Muslims and Christians, white people or black people and have-nots or well-off persons based on the Prophet Muhammad hadīth that people are all even like the teeth of a comb,” Khayr Allāh said during a meeting with...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The administrative judiciary court on Tuesday (May 8) is sitting on a case obliging the minister of interior and public prosecutor to arrest and investigate the persons who set up the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) page on the social networking media Facebook...
Date of source: Sunday, May 6, 2012
Moreover, the three Christian denominations called for dialogue among all political powers and parliament to avoid any more deaths.
The Coptic Catholic Church released a statement through acting patriarch Bishop Kyrillos in which it said that the heart of the church is aching over the Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, May 6, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Hadd al-Hirābah is a form of corporal punishment in Islamic sharī’ah, applicable to persons who wreak havoc, terrorize people or are involved in robbery. The punishment is exacted by amputating the right arm and the left leg or the left arm and the right leg. The punishment also...
Date of source: Sunday, May 6, 2012
Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hamīd al-Atrash, former chairman of the Azhar’s Fatwá Committee, said that hadd al-Hirābah must be applied on protesters who block roads, terriorize citizens and burn cars. [Dīyā’ Abū al-Safā, al-Akhbār, May 6, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2012
Priest Angelus, the secretary of Bishop Pachomius, denied that the interim leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church ran in the elections over the chair of St. Mark the Apostle, adding Bishop Pachomius has over and again said he would not seek any positions and only seeks the service of the church and...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
General Usāmah Mitwallī, the head of al-Minya security department, stated that they are making an effort to convene a reconciliation session between the different parties in Badrmān, Nazlit ‘Ābid, and Hiwārtah, as well as adding conditional terms against those who breach the agreement. Counselor...
Date of source: Friday, January 11, 2013
The Palestinian and Syrian case topped the meetings of the Azhar, Coptic Orthodox Pope, Palestinian President, and Iranian Foreign Minister.
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb said that Jerusalem is not only an occupied land but an Islamic and Christian sanctuary. He added that the Palestinian case is not only a...
Date of source: Thursday, April 5, 2012
Also in Asiut, a court sentenced a Coptic secondary student, Jamāl ‘Abduh Mas’ūd, who sparked sectarian trouble in the Upper Egyptian governorate, to three years in jail for disdaining Islam and publishing photos and images insulting religions. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 20] Read...
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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.