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Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Asyut Governorate witnessed a new sectarian incident when a Christian man was accused of sexually assaulting a Muslim boy. The situation flared up in the late evening hours of Sunday Mar. 3 in the area Hay al-Arbi'īn. Hundreds of Salafīs and members of al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah gathered in front of...
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2013
Bishop Bisantī of Helwan and al-Ma'sarah and member of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, has expressed his astonishment that the presidency forgot the dates of the Easter celebrations when selecting the date for the parliamentary elections (Caroline Kāmil, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Mar. 1, p...
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2013
After days, 116 cardinals (highest religious ranking in the Catholic Church) from all corners of the world are meeting at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican to vote for the successor of Pope Benedict XVI, who recently resigned (Author not mentioned, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Mar. 1, p.10). Read original...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
An investigator in Alexandria has revealed the mystery of the five Christian citizens killed in Naj’ al-Salām in Burj al-‘Arab of Alexandria Governorate on February 25, 2013. Investigations have confirmed that there are no suspicions of this being a sectarian-motivated crime. Last year a dispute...
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2013
The public prosecutor decided to remand under custody the preacher Ahmad ‘Abdullah, more commonly known as Abū Islām, for four days pending investigation in the case of religious defamation. According to Councilor Kamāl Mukhtār, there are two accusations against Abū Islām, namely exploitation of...
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2013
On Saturday February 23, President Morsi (Mursī) decided to change the dates for all four phases of the upcoming parliamentary elections. This is in response to a request made in the Shurá Council by the three Churches of Egypt to avoid overlap with the Christian Easter holiday. In accordance with...
Date of source: Friday, February 22, 2013
In the sermon, Pope Tawadros warned of the dangers of extremism. He said that people who tend to exaggeration in their speech or religious practices such as fasting are being cruel to themselves and others, and that they often use the subject of religious justice to judge others. He also warned...
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2013
Archpriest Angelous Ishāq, secretary for Pope Tawadros II, has denied rumors that the Pope, in an interview with a journalist from Washington Post, said that the Constitution is racist and discriminates between people. Archpriest Ishāq added that the Pope stressed that the Constitution should be...
Date of source: Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Egyptian Foreign Minister received Vatican approval on the nomination of the former vice president Mahmūd Mikī as Egypt's ambassador to the Vatican.
The last Egyptian ambassador to the Vatican was Lamīyā' Mikhaymar. Since her term ended in September 2012 there has been no Egyptian Ambassador to...
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2013
Security units in the governorate of Luxor were yesterday able to contain a new sectarian crisis after Muslims accused a Christian policeman of insulting the Prophet Muhammad on his Facebook page. Police together with religious and community leaders were able to limit the anger of tens of Muslims...
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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.