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Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Copts offered prayers and petitions for the return of Christina Karīm ʿAzīz, a 20-year-old Christian girl who has vanished for almost two weeks in the Asyūṭ governorate’s al-Fatḥ town.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
In the province of al-Minyā in southern Egypt, representatives of prominent families paid a visit to the Coptic Christians and the pastor of the Evangelical church to apologize for the attack on the church's newly constructed building, which had a building license.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Security forces in the Upper Egyptian province of al-Minyā and the deputy governor rushed to al-Fawākhir village after reported assaults by extremists on Copts over rumors about the construction of a church.
Date of source: Monday, December 4, 2023
On Monday, December 4th, the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, Anbā Ibrāhīm Isḥaq Sidrāk, welcomed a delegation of archbishops of Catholic churches in Africa at the patriarchate’s headquarters in the Cairo district of Kūbrī al-Qubba.
Date of source: Saturday, July 29, 2023
For days, I have been following the crisis of the disappearance of the Coptic doctor, Sālī Nasīm, at Aswān Hospital in Kūm Umbū town.
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2023
Egyptians and historians have rejected the proposed change of St. Catherine's official name to that of “the Greatest manifestation” (al-Tajallī al-Aʿẓam). They emphasized that to do so is to erase the popular and Egyptian identity associated with this name by which the site has been known...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2022
After Copts have suffered for years in court cases related to the distribution of inheritance shares, Professor Nelly Fam, an attorney of cassation (or appeals), succeeded in implementing the Coptic Orthodox Personal Status Law, with its provisions on inheritance, the entitlement of heirs, and the...
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2022
A crime that has shocked al-Minyā Governorate, where three Copts in the village of Abshādāt, in the center of Mallāwī, were shot at, killed and mutilated by a group of individuals in an alleged case of revenge [thāʿr], as the perpetrators danced on the victims’ bodies.
Date of source: Monday, February 7, 2022
On February 13, the Cairo Economic Court will hear the appeal of Marco Girgis Salib [Marco Jirjis Ṣalīb], who is imprisoned for contempt of religion.
Date of source: Monday, December 20, 2021
A Coptic family cried for help to President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī after the disappearance of their daughter Sāra Tawfīq ʾAyūb. on December 12, 2021, the 21-year-old Christian girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances, while she was on her way to the church and meet her fiancé.
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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.