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Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 2010
Headline: Islamist Lawyers Introduce Pope as Adversary in Kāmīliyā Shihātah Case, Ask that Ministry of Interior Bring her to Testify
Source: Sawt al-Ummah
Page: 13
Author: ‘Antar ‘Abd al-Latīf
Keywords: Pope Shenouda III, conversion
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Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 2010
Leading Coptic figures discuss Pope Shenouda's decision to seclude himself in a monastery in Wādī al-Natrūn and cancel this year’s Christmas celebrations, which led to demonstrations at the ‘Abbāsiyyah Cathedral last Wednesday demanding President Husnī Mubārak’s attention.
Activist Būlus Ramzī...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 2010
Fātin discusses an incident between the Azhar and the Egyptian government where the Azhar issued a request for the state to pay for the medical treatment of former Azhar University president Dr. Ahmad ‘Amr Hāshim, who is currently a member of the Azhar's Islamic Research Academy.
Various Azhar...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 2010
The author lists a number of great Islamic thinkers who have died but whose writings still live. This summer witnessed the departure of some formative Islamic thinkers. Al-Imām mentions Muhammad Husayn Fadl Allāh, who was the spiritual father of Hizb Allāh, and the bold and dissident speaker Nasr...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Nabīl Jabrā’īl suggests modifying the law of prostitution. The author states that Jabrā’īl, who is a lawyer, declares that Muslim women who want to become Christians use prostitution as a kind of trick in order to have relations with others because the state doesn't let Muslims become Christians....
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 2010
Coptic activist Būlus Ramzī told Sawt al-Ummah that the Pope only allows priests to join the ruling National Democratic Party. He says that the Church was outraged at Father Philopater Jamīl Rā‘ī for joining the al-Ghad Party and threatened to suspend him. He says that the Church supports the NDP...
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 2010
‘Antar calls Zakariyyā Butrus, Marqus ‘Azīz, Maurice Sādiq, and Nādir Fawzī four people “hated” by Egyptians. He says that they are banned from entering Egypt for various reasons, all related to trying to ruin Muslim-Coptic relations in Egypt and attempting to cause fitnah tā’ifīyah. Famous Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 2010
The article says that it is always the same story that causes fitnah tā’ifīyah in Egypt: a Muslim boy and a Christian girl, or vice versa, fall in love.
This time, in the small village of al-Nawāhid in Qena, it resulted in a fire burning thirteen houses and a shop. The mayor of the village saw a...
Date of source: Friday, November 5, 2010
Wā’il says that he has found documents supporting his previous claims that the president of the Jewish Community in Egypt, Carmen Weinstein, is working towards one of Israel’s oldest goals of penetrating Egyptian society. Carmen issued a statement requesting the government only allow access to...
Date of source: Friday, November 5, 2010
Coptic businessman Hānī ‘Azīz upset the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria by holding a large press conference in support of parliamentary candidate Dr. Mufīd Shihāb, promising him the Coptic vote and the Pope’s personal support. Pope Shenouda III previously said, however, that the church is not...
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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.