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Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2011
As a consequence of the suicide bombing that killed 21 people and injured nearly 100 in Alexandria, Egyptian authorities have tightened security around churches. Meanwhile, seven people were questioned about the New year's Day attack outside the the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope...
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Egyptian government and religious officials continue to express their shock and their outrage over the attack of the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter in Alexandria.
Safwat al-Sharīf, the chairman of the Supreme Press Council, stressed the importance of finding out everything...
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2011
Both Christians and Muslims have strongly condemned the New Year's day attack in Alexandria that killed 21 people and injured 70 others outside the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter.
Father Mattá of the Great Martyr Mār Girgis Church in Manshiyyat al-Sadr, Cairo stressed the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2011
Nirmīn Nabīl, who was wounded by the attack in Alexandria on New Year's day, says "If the bishop had finished saying mass two minutes earlier, the bloodbath could have been worse." Nabīl left the church before the end of the mass while hundred of people were still inside. Twenty-one people were...
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2011
President Husnī Mubārak called upon Egypt's Muslims and Christians to unite against terrorism, after a car bomb killed 21 people and injured 70 outside the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter in Alexandria. Christians immediately protested in the streets after the blasts. Mubārak...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Thousands of Jews are traveling this week to a tiny village in the Beheira governate on the Nile Delta in order to visit a 200 year-old shrine to Abū Hasīrah, a Jewish Egyptian rabbi.
Some residents of the village protest the event, saying that Israelis shouldn’t be allowed to enter Egypt while...
Date of source: Monday, December 27, 2010
In this Egyptian Gazette article, Manāl ‘Abd al-‘Azīz questions whether Sudanese president ‘Umar al-Bashīr is seeking to unite or divide the nation of Sudan by threatening to apply Islamic Sharī‘ah law if South Sudan carries through with its plan to separate from the North.
‘Abd al-Azīz says that...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 2010
Prosecutor General ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd has released nineteen Copts allegedly involved in the November riot over the stoppage of construction at a church in ‘Umraniyyah, Giza.
A statement by Mahmūd says that the detainees were released because of “humanitarian and social circumstances,” stating...
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2010
Egyptian President Husnī Mubārak has met with Pope Shenouda III ahead of Christmas celebrations. The two met at the Presidential Palace in Cairo late last month.
The meeting came in light of the Pope’s perceived disappointment at the government’s actions in the ‘Umrāniyyah church construction...
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2010
Muhammad Dā’ud, professor of Islamic Sharī‘ah at Suez University, says that the recent Fatwá issued against opposition leader Mohammad al-Barād‘ī for allegedly inciting civil unrest is fanatical.
According to Dā’ud, the Fatwá is based on a crucial misunderstanding about Egyptian politics. “Al-Barād...
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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.