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Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2007
The author argues that the new newspaper that Bishop Bīshūy intends to issue will ignite crisis within Coptic circles. He believes that Bishop Bīshūy will use it as a platform to present himself as an alternative to Pope Shenouda.
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2007
The Supreme Administrative Court has accepted an appeal filed by hundreds of Christians who had previously converted to Islam and asked to return to Christianity. The Administrative Judiciary Court initially ruled against their right to legally have their re-conversion declared on their official...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2007
The pope is expected in the Upper Egyptian village of al-Dab‘īyah in Luxor governorate to inaugurate a renewed church. Rumors spread about the Copts of Luxor being preparing for a demonstration vying to reinstate Bishop Amonius and rejecting any other alternative. At the same time fliers were...
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
Sectarian sedition threatens to erupt after an Alexandrian resident, ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, filed a lawsuit accusing the Alexandria governor and minister of interior of refraining from closing a church which was built on his own land without right or license.
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
A Muslim lecturer at the Institute of Arab Music accuses a ‘Coptic’ professor who supervises his master’s thesis of persecuting him because his father in-law was a Copt and converted to Islam, claiming that the professor has a history of religious discrimination against Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
A Coptic employee at a post office in northern Cairo filed a complaint before the general prosecutor, accusing a Muslim responsible in the post office of persecuting him because he ran in one of the local elections for his constituency.
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
The Coptic family, involved in the sectarian violence incidents that took place in the Upper Egyptian village of al-Dāmūd, accuses al-‘Imārī Muslim family of falsifying a rent contract and of exploiting the influence of Hamādah al-‘Imārī, a member of parliament, to gain a court ruling giving his...
Date of source: Monday, June 18, 2007
Policemen used tear gas to separate the angry protestors sparked by a decision to repeat the elections between two nominees in Qinā one of the nominees represented the Bedouins and was nominated by the ruling National Democratic Party, and the other was an independent nominee, also a member of the...
Date of source: Monday, June 18, 2007
The author reports on incidents of forgery in Qinā during the
Shūrá Council’s elections.
Date of source: Monday, June 18, 2007
Coptic independent nominee to the Shūrá Council’s elections Marqus Nakhalah reveals incidents of falsification in the favor of the nominee of the ruling national Democratic Party.
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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.