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Date of source: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Amnesty International called yesterday (August 19) for a clear commitment by the Egyptian state to ensure the safety of the Coptic Christian community from the sectarian attacks aimed at them, due to the unprecedented rise in the frequency of acts of violence targeting Copts in various parts of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
In a telephone conversation during the TV program, Hunā al-‘Āsimah’, UNESCO Ambassador Muhammad Sāmih released a statement condemning all assaults on houses of worship, cultural sites, and archaeological sites (Samīr Husnī and Ahmad ‘Abd al-Rahman, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Aug. 20).Read original text in...
Date of source: Friday, November 2, 2012
Sarah Ishaq ‘Abd al-Malāk, a Coptic young girl of 13 or 14 years old, does not enjoy the right to open a bank account, drive or handle her inheritance, simply because she has not come of age yet. However, this has been argued by Salafists who believe that women reach adulthood when they start to...
Date of source: Friday, November 16, 2012
Egyptian business magnate Najīb Sawirus said Copts, who resemble the Red Indians of America, are suffering persecution and discrimination, adding the new government in Egypt has picked only one Christian minister out of 48 Muslim ministers. [Rihāb ‘Abd Illah, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Nov. 16, p. 1] Read...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2012
Coptic activists, led by Abrām Lewis, the founder of the Association of Victims of Abductions and Enforced Disappearances (AVAED), and lawyer Girgis Bibāwī, on Sunday (September 30) lodged a report with the public prosecutor to re-activate the advice sessions for Christians prior to conversion to...
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2012
Mursī's unconfirmed status of attending the enthronement of Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II is due to Salafists' pressure, according to al-Yawm al-Sābi’.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2012
Magi Mīlād, a 13-year-old Christian student in the preparatory stage of education whose hair was cut by force by a niqāb-clad woman inside the metro, said she was sad about that situation more than her sadness about her hair.
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2012
Nine Christian families packed up and left their homes in the Egyptian city of Rafah to relocate to al-‘Arīsh, North Sinai governorate, after concerns amidst Christians’ circles that followed a shooting spree on the store of a Christian merchant on Wednesday (Sept. 26).
Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2012
The ministry of education inserted verses from the Bible into the syllabus of secondary schools in the chapter on human rights of the national education subject
60. Maj. General Abū Bakr al-Jindī: There Has Been No Census of Copts or Muslims in Egypt Since 1986
Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Maj. General Abū Bakr al-Jindī, Chairman of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), denied reports attributed to him about the census of Egyptian Christians or that he said Copts are five million.
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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.