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Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III.
Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2013
Al-Fajr released a statement delivered by Nādir al-Sirafī, spokesman of the “Copts 38” group, upon a meeting with Pope Tawadros II in the papal headquarters in ’Abāsīyyah. Al-Sirafī, and three other members of “Copts 38”, Rafīq Farūq, Vivian Jamīl, and Ra’fat Rīd, presented the problems almost 10...
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
Bishop Bīshūy, known as the late Pope Shenouda III’s “right-hand”, has been described as undiplomatic and extreme in his ideas that are prejudiced against other Christian Churches. He had publicly accused Protestant Evangelicals of recruiting Orthodox youth as part of a broader plot to evangelize...
Date of source: Thursday, January 3, 2013
In an article entitled “No. 9 and the kidnapping of Coptic Minors”, Egyptian journalist Muhammad al-Bāz comments on the situation of Copts under a growing Salafī threat and police forces reluctant to interfere of fear that the Salafī may “attack the Ministry of Interior” (quoting minister of...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Coptic Orthodox churches and a number of Coptic activists warned of a terrorist in a post on social media sites bearing his name and a photograph of him.
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2016
Dr. Muḥammad Mūkhtār Jumʿah, Minister of Awqaf, denied recent reports that the Salafist Jihadist group affiliated with the terrorist group “Bayt al-Maqdis” took over 3,000 mosques in Egypt. These mosques allegedly included mosques in Mansoura, Marsa Matruh and Kafr El-Sheikh, as well as Faysal and...
Date of source: Monday, April 25, 2016
Security forces arrested a number of young suspects in the vicinity of Al-Fatḥ mosque in Ramsis and intensified their presence. Four police cars and armored vehicles were stationed.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Prominent TV presenter and writer, Ibrāhīm ʿĪssa, stressed in his show broadcast by “Al-Qahira Wa al-Nas channel “, that the development of countries is assessed by the level of its democracy.
Date of source: Monday, May 18, 2015
Sources reveal that masked assailants kidnapped 4 Copts when they were getting in a taxi in the mountainous region near the village of Dīr Jabal al-Tīr in the Samālūt area of northern al-Minyā. Security forces are reportedly intensifying and widening their investigation, though they have not yet...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
In an aired phone interview presented by Al-Mehwar TV-Channel, Egyptian painter Ahmad `Abla strongly criticized the minister of culture, `Abd al-Wāhed al-Nabawi, saying that the changes the minister wants to implement will kill the creative soul of Egyptian art, in particular on what concerns the...
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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.