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Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Al-Yawm al-Sābi' interviewed a prominent lawyer and legal adviser of the Church, Ramsīs al-Najjār. Al-Najjār participated in the meeting of the Clerical Council held in order to study the Personal Status regulations for Copts, to develop a new list for the Law, including amendments to article 35...
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2013
(CIDT's General Director and AWR's Editor-in-Chief, Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, comments: There is no evidence that 100 thousand Christians have migrated. This figure seems to be inflated, see AWR student Jaco Stoop paper. It is even less true that all migrants left out of intimidation. There is no...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
According to al-Yawm al-Sābi’ the sectarian clashes in Khusūs and the following violence at the Cathedral are not comparable with earlier fights between Muslims and Copts. They represent a warning, since calls for a citizenship cannot be heard this time.
The coptic writer and researcher Sulaymān...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Several representatives of civil parties and Coptic members of Parliament (MPs) held a press conference about the happenings in al-Khusūs and the Cathedral. It was generally agreed that Muhammad Mursi (Mursī) should bear responsibility for the recent happenings. All participants demanded the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 7, 2013
Dahshūr village in al-Badrashīn, south of Giza Governorate turned to a military barrack after the murder of Bishrī, brother of Sāmih Sāmī Yūsuf, a Coptic ironing man. Sāmih had caused fitnah seven months ago in Dahshūr when he burned a shirt of a Muslim.
A security source in Giza Security...
Date of source: Sunday, April 7, 2013
Ashraf al-Khāwjah, father of the kidnaped child Abanoub, said that the kidnaping of his child off Saint Paul Church in Shubrā al-Khaymah proved the love and fraternal ties between Muslims and Christians. He added that his Muslim neighbors supported his family during this tragedy and were praying...
Date of source: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Several advisors to the Coptic Orthodox Church, including Ramsīs al-Najār, have prepared a draft statute for the new personal status law, to facilitate the process of divorce without contravening the teachings of the Bible (Michael Fāris, al-Yawm al-Sābi', Apr. 6, p. 6). Read original text in...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The Legislative Affairs Committee of the Shūrá Council rejected the status of women in the first half of the electoral list, leading to sharp differences between the House of Representatives at a meeting yesterday (April 2, 2013). Shūrá Council member, Mamdūh Ramzī criticized the decision saying...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 2, 2013
According to a source present at the meeting, representatives of the President listened more than they spoke and requested from the Coptic delegation that they meet with President Mursī to express their opinions, but the delegation refused. The participating Copts asked to send a letter to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
A number of expatriate Copts in the Netherlands flocked to the Egyptian Embassy on March 12, 2013 to sign on to a campaign that aimed at designating Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi (Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī) as Egypt's new head of state (Jamāl Jirjis al-Muzāhim, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Mar. 13, p. 2...
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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.