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Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2013
On the other hand he qualified his criticism saying that the army and security forces have not been contaminated by extremism. He said that although Egypt is going through a period of instability and the police are in poor condition, the army has a conscience and rational leadership, who will not...
Date of source: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Al-Waylī Prosecution’s investigation -of the attack on Saint Mark Cathedral-has found that the person in the circulated video -on social-networking websites- carrying a cartridge at the top of an adjacent gas station to the Cathedral is not Karīm Baskūtah (current suspect) but Silīm Muhammad ‘Alī (...
30. The Pope enters his secrecy and prevents communication and interviews with officials and clerics
Date of source: Friday, April 12, 2013
Pope Tawadros has entered into seclusion at Wādī al-Natrūn, and has forbidden any contact, in person or by phone, between clergy and officials. The Pope has asked the President to fulfill his promises of a full, equal and just investigation into recent sectarian violence. Sources within the papacy...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
An official source has confirmed that some of the Copts imprisoned for proselytizing in Libya will be freed within hours. Three of the prisoners will be released with a fourth being held until the investigation into his case is finished (Zīyyād Hasan and Sanīyah Mahmūd, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Mar. 27...
Date of source: Monday, March 18, 2013
Public prosecutor Tal’at ‘Abdullah has referred Salafī preacher Muhammad Ahmad ‘Abdullah, more commonly known as Abū Islām, to court on charges of defamation of Christianity and broadcasting false information to incite unrest and sectarian strife. Investigations have revealed that Abū Islām...
Date of source: Monday, March 18, 2013
On Saturday evening, Mar. 16, security forces in Beni Suef imposed a security cordon around police department al-Wāstá and the village church. This was in reaction to continued violence following the disappearance of a Muslim university girl on February 16. The girl, Ranā Hātim Kamāl, is a 16-year-...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Additionally, Bishop Būlā of Tantā said that the Church will launch an annual award in the name of Pope Shenouda III, this year, the award will be granted to the physician who treated Pope Shenouda for six years in the United States (Ahmad Sa’dāwī, Caroline Kāmil and Hātim al-Jahmī, al-Shurūq al-...
Date of source: Sunday, March 10, 2013
A state of tension remains in al-Wāstī City of Beni Suef after two weeks since the disappearance of a Muslim college student called Ranā Hātim al-Shāzlī. Ranā’s uncle told Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd that Ranā had a Christian friend called Marīyān who used to go with her to the church to buy some books. One...
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2013
In al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Sahar Tūnī, the disappeared Kom Ombo’s teacher, said that the Church has nothing to do with her escape. She related that she had doubts about her Islamic doctrine from five years while surfing Islamic forums on the internet and reading about Islam’s position from women and...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
In a private statement to al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah said the Church does not mind the placing of surveillance cameras in churches for protection. The Church requests however, that it is informed of what is recorded on camera.
The Board of State Commissioners, headed by...
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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.