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Date of source: Friday, August 23, 2013
The organization "Human Rights Watch" has issued a statement calling on the Egyptian authorities to take the steps necessary to protect churches and religious institutions against attacks from what it called "mobs". Since August 14 there has been arson and looting of dozens of churches, and...
Date of source: Monday, October 14, 2013
This came after the call ofMuslim Brotherhood and its allies to storm al-Tahrīr square on the first day on Eid the and to start a sit-in there. Mīnā Majdī, the spokesman of the Maspero Youth Union, stated, “We will be there in the square and we will form human chains to protect the people praying...
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Egyptian Union for Human rights Organization headed by Dr. Naguib Jubra’il drafted a memo addressed to Interim President Adly Mansur, Prime Minster Dr. Hāzim al-Biblāwī, and General ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisī. The organization issued a statement that included the demands in the memo. It included...
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Dr. Samīr Sabry, renowned lawyer, has submitted a complaint to Counselor Hishām Barakāt and Counselor Tāmir Firgānī, the first general attorney for the state security prosecution, accusing Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mahmūd Hussayn, Ibrahīm Munīr Mustafá, Mahmūd al-‘Ibyārī and others of funding the...
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2013
Bishop Makarios the Bishop of Minya, has denied in an official statement the claims made by Al Jazeera Channel that the Copts have accused the security forces of collaborating with terrorists in burning the churches. The statement assured that there is no truth to what Al Jazeera has stated. He...
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2013
The official page for Bishop Marcus, Bishop of Shubrā al-Khaymah, has issued a statement by Priest Arsanbus, who is responsible for organizing the ceremony of Mar Jirjis in Luxor. A decision was taken to cancel the celebration this year in Luxor after a phone conversation with Pope Tawadros II due...
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2013
Judicial sources stated that the state security prosecution is conducting investigations in the Warrāq Church “massacre” (Nadā Hamdī, al-Dustūr, Nov. 3, p. 6). Read the original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The new law on NGOs will be discussed with the ministers of social insurances and justice as well as the NGOs federation within a week to bring viewpoints closer and strike a balance between the civil society’s interests and the government’s controls on foreign funding.
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, founded by Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, in cooperation with the local and international groups, threatened to demand the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to send international fact-finding commissions to gather evidence from all sources and...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The issue of Copts’ population was raised in a very exciting different way, particularly in this timing, considering the fact that the powers that be in Egypt have been neglecting this topic since the times of former Presidents Muḥammad Anwar al-Sādāt and Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubārak.
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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.