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Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2012
The Dutch Parliament's decision to grant asylum to Egypt's Copts who are being persecuted in Egypt, which the Dutch goverment has denied, received wide reactions among all segments who denounced this decision.
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Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Lawyers of the martyrs’ families called for applying “the severest penalty” – execution – against ousted President Husnī Mubārak, his sons Jamāl and ‘Alā’, former interior minister Habīb al-‘Ādlī and six of his top aides on charges of involvement in killing demonstrators during the January 25, 2011...
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Azhar vehemently rejected the setting up of a so-called Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), asserting that the top Sunni Muslim establishment is the only Muslim reference concerned with religious affairs in Egypt. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Jan. 5, p. 14...
Date of source: Thursday, December 22, 2011
Supporters of the Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party in al-Beheira governorate handed out fliers in which they urged voters to cast their ballots in favor of the party and that anyone not voting for al-Nūr would be "a sinner in the heart, profligate and dishonest because they letting down the party that...
Date of source: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, the director of Ibn Khaldoun Center, emphasized that he asked for a parliamentary quota, ranging between 15 percent and 20 percent for Copts. “Pope Shenouda stood against the idea and told me "We are not a minority and we not need a quota for Copts,” Ibrāhīm added.
Date of source: Sunday, November 13, 2011
Egypt's post-revolution sectarian troubles are raising some scary questions about the future of the relationship between the partners in the nation.
Date of source: Sunday, November 13, 2011
Under the motto "Returning to God…prayers for Egypt," more than 300,000 Copts gathered in prayers held by the Egyptian Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches at the Saint Sam'ān al-Kharāz Monastery, in the al-Muqatam area, to pray for the nation's peace and stability.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Coptic Ortodox Church refused Coptic activists' calls to boycott the elections.
A Prominent Archbishop in the Holy Synod, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that the church would never accept these calls.
He added that Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III's instructions with regards to...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Approximately 300 Coptic youth, representing different Coptic movements, cut access to Ramsīs Street objecting threats by a number of Muslims to demolish Idfū church in Aswan governorate.
Coptic movements demanded forming a fact-finding commission to investigate the attack on the church, arresting...
Date of source: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Dr. Shirīf Dūs, president of the General Coptic Association, is intending to hold talks with presidents of liberal and leftist political parties to form a coalition in the next parliament elections to compete with Islamists.
Dr. Ihāb Ramzī, lawyer and Coptic activist, is estimating that 50 Coptic...
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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.