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Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Angry protests by Coptic Christians demanding the return of 25-year-old Kāmilyā Shihāta Zākhir, the wife of Priest Tadāwus Sam‘ān, the pastor of Mar Girgis Church in Deir Mwās , al-Minya, fizzled out as state security handed her over to the Church.
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Dozens of young Copts staged a demonstration within the St. Mark Cathedral building in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīya, just before Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church, delivered his weekly Wednesday sermon. He called for the acceleration of the handing down of a court ruling in the...
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Waves of official and intellectual protests against a symposium organized by al-Yawm al-Sābi‘ newspaper that hosted novelist and academic Yūsuf Zaydān, author of the controversial book “Azazel,” which angered the Coptic Orthodox Church and spurred many Christian clergymen and thinkers to sue him.
Date of source: Monday, April 26, 2010
A recent ruling by Egypt’s Administrative Court declared that the government is not required by law to consider Christian holidays official governmental holidays.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Pope Shenouda III urges Copts to hold off on visiting Jerusalem until they can go as a group.
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Pope Shenouda meets with the defense counsel for the victims of the Naj‘ Hammādī massacre, as the defendant’s lawyers expressed fear the Pope might intervene in the course of the trial.
Date of source: Saturday, April 17, 2010
The article deals with a letter from Father Hans Küng, a Swiss Catholic priest and a well known theologian, to the Catholic bishops on the fifth anniversary of Pope Benedict’s XVI election to the Vatican.
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The trial of the suspects in the Naj‘ Hammādī case has been postponed until May 16, 2010. The suspects’ defense express their dissatisfaction at the postponement of the trial.
Date of source: Sunday, April 11, 2010
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīdah reports on appointing ‘Abd al-Hādī al-Qasabī Shaykh of Sūfism and ‘Abd Allāh al-Husaynī president of the Azhar University.
Date of source: Monday, April 5, 2010
The Criminal Court releases 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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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.