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Date of source: Monday, September 6, 2010
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria refused to comment on last Friday's demonstrations for the Kamilia Shehata issue held outside Al-Kaed Ibrahim mosque in Alexandria. A spokesperson for the Church said that the Church refuses to respond to activists and will only respond to authorities....
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2010
A fault in electricity circuits caused a huge fire at the Samalout Archbishopric yesterday, destroying the second and fourth floors. No deaths were reported. According to Priest Dawood Nashed, representative of the Archbishopric, the fire appears to have started naturally. He added that Muslim...
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2010
Local authorities across the nation assigned public plazas for the Eid prayers to take place. A spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood announced that they would be taking a new, innovative approach to promote the party, utilizing their existing representatives in parliament's immunity. He also...
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2010
Marian Zaki Matta, a Coptic girl aged 20, was reported missing by her family after she went missing for a week. After further investigation, it was clear that Marian had not been kidnapped as her parents had initially assumed, but that she had run away from home to marry a Muslim man.
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Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2010
Pope Shenouda III turned down a proposition by a number of priests to form a priests’ "union". The proposition was first introduced a number of years ago and has been re-proposed and refused every year since. Shenouda explained his belief that the Church's structure should not imitate that of the...
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2010
Following two days of mass resignations from the National Democratic Party in El Marg, Muslim members of the ruling party in Asiut showed signs of discomfort, as seven of their Coptic colleagues offered themselves as potential candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Some of the angry...
Date of source: Saturday, April 24, 2010
12-13 people were detained under alleged charges of Evangelization. Al-Misrī al-Yawm was the only newspaper to report on the release of the detained today.
Date of source: Sunday, May 23, 2010
The Supreme Administrative Court issues a final ruling in the case of Copts’ second marriage on May 29.
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2010
Key members of the Egyptian government and ruling party attended the Abbasia Cathedral's annual Iftar yesterday, yet no appearances from opposing party members were made. The Iftar was the first after it's discontinuation for two years for, as the author put it, "unconvincing" reasons. The first...
Date of source: Sunday, May 23, 2010
Fārūq Juwaydah writes about the reasons behind the government’s relations the Muslim Brotherhood and Sūfism.
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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.