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Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Websites connected to ISIS reported that the organization’s fighters had kidnapped and slaughtered 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. They said the kidnappings came as revenge for Muslim women who were exposed to persecution at the hands of "the Copts in Egypt." The extremist organization specified...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Prime Minister Ibrāhīm Mahlab and Interior Minister General Muhammad Ibrāhīm accompanied Egypt’s President ‛Abd al-Fatāh al-Sīsī on a visit to Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo to offer their condolences to Pope Tawādrūs II for the deaths of the Egyptian martyrs in Libya at the hands of ISIS. Mahlab...
Council of Egypt’s Churches demand that International Community rescue remaining Christians in Libya
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
The Council of Egypt’s Churches announced, with great sorrow, the death of 21 Egyptian martyrs in Libya on account of their religious identity and offered condolences to their families. The Council demanded that the international community act quickly to save the remaining Christians of Libya and...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Al-Azhar which has resisted and persecuted those who have attempted to reform Islam since the end of the 19th century, is now being called upon by Egypt’s president to do what they have long suppressed:. reforming Islam. The response of the shaykhs of al-Azhar has been to announce conferences and...
Date of source: Sunday, February 15, 2015
Egypt’s foreign ministry condemned yesterday’s attacks in the Danish city of Copenhagen which targeted a coffee shop and a synagogue and resulted in the deaths of two civilians. A Swedish artist attending a seminar on free speech hosted in the coffee shop was among the dead. The artist had...
Date of source: Sunday, February 15, 2015
Doctor Muhammad Mukhtār, Egypt’s Minister of Religious Endowments, said "there is no doubt that the enemies of religion, Egypt, and the Arab people are working to fragment the Arab world through every means: either through feeding radicalism, terrorism, and the extremism that leads to such. This...
Date of source: Sunday, February 15, 2015
Bishop Yūhnā Qutla, representative of the Patriarch of the Catholic Church in Egypt, said in an interview with ONTV that Egypt authorities had performed their role to the best of their abilities concerning the crisis of the kidnaped Egyptians in Libya. He added that the situation in Libya is not...
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2015
Financial Times: "ISIS wants to fuel religious discord in Egypt"
The British newspaper, the Financial Times, wrote that the Islamic State (Dā‛ish) is purposefully planting the seeds of sectarian discord in the region. The newspaper added that Dā‛ish would rejoice in the event that Muslim...
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2015
American President: Muslims in Egypt have protected churches with their lives
During a speech at a conference in Washington DC on combatting extremism, US President Barack Obama said, "we cannot let extremist [takfīrī] organizations destroy our societies." He asked nations to call for understanding...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2015
American Colonel to CNN: Hidden messages in the video of the slaughter of Copts and ISIS erred in bringing Egypt into the conflict…ground intervention is necessary
Military expert and retired colonel in the US Army, Peter Manūr said in an interview with CNN that ground forces need to be sent to...
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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.