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Date of source: Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Mahmūd 'Azab, advisor of Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb of Al-Azhar said that houses of worship are holy. It was an act of barbarism and ignorance to storm a mosque or a church to damage it or to perform any other act there than an act of worship of God. He said: “Who attacks a mosque or a church...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 11, 2013
The three Egyptian Churches have agreed on the distribution of their members in the Constituent Assembly – the primary candidates as well as those on the reserve lists, among the sub-committees of the Constituent Assembly
Meanwhile, the Coptic organization, the Maspero Youth Union has submitted...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Giza security department is setting up checkpoints in order to speed the process of arresting the defendants in the al-Warrāq Church shooting following their identification by the security apparatuses. Investigations showed that they were jihadis (Nadā Hamdī, al-Dustūr, Oct. 28, p. 3). Read...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Revolutionary Union for Coptic Youth has stated that the government is responsible for the events taking place aiming at terrorizing the Copts. The Union stated, “How can we believe the Minister of Interior who carried out the attack on the Cathedral?” (Alī Rajab, al-Dustūr, Oct. 28, p. 4). ...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
Fr. Rafīq Greisch, the spokesman of the Catholic Church stated that the terrorist attacks against churches will not deter the Copts from attending services. Rather it will strengthen their will and their attachment to God and prayer. Greisch requested the state and all of the security departments...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Cairo Criminal Court convening in Tagammu’ al-Khamis has decided to reject the appeal submitted by 6 defendants in the case of the “Cathedral Events”. The judges ruled to renew their detention for another 45 days pending investigations (Mustafá Harbī, al-Dustūr, Oct. 28, p.4). Read original...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Najuīb Jubra’īl, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, has submitted a complaint to the general prosecutor requesting to dismiss Prime Minister Hāzim al-Biblāwī and Minister of Interior, General Muhammad Ibrahīm, due to their oversight in applying the emergency laws which led to...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Religious institutions have denounced the attack in al-Warrāq. Grand Imām, Dr. Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb, Al-Azhar Shaykh, stated that the act is a terrorist attack, which contradicts with morality and religion. Dr. Shawqī ‘Allām, the Grand Muftī, stated that attacking churches is prohibited...
Date of source: Friday, October 11, 2013
A number of Coptic activists have accused the Muslim Brotherhood of arranging the events that took place during the Maspero memorial event in which slogans were chanted against the army and against Gen. ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī (Alī Ragab, et al., al-Dustūr, Oct. 11, p. 4). Read original text in...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 21, 2013
ʿAbd al-Hādī, President of the Supreme Council of the “Tariqa Sūfīyyah” said that the Egyptian army is the safety valve, not only for Egypt but for the Arab and the Islamic community against every attempt to divide the nation. He added that the police are the shield of the nation, the guarantor of...
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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.