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Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2012
Rāmī Lakah, leader of Hizb Misrinā, or "Our Egypt Party" and appointed to the Shūrá Council, said that the three Christian churches, Orthodox Catholic and Evangelical, agreed to submit one memo to be discussed on December 26.
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī decision to appoint 90 members of the Shūrá Council came as an evidence that Islamists, especially the MB, will have control over the number of appointees. This contradicts with spokesperson for the President Yāsir ‘Alī’s statements that 75 percent of appointees will not be...
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2012
For his part, Dr. Yāssir Burhāmī, vice-president of the Salafī call (al-Da’wah al-Salafīah), called political powers to turn a new page and cooperate for the interest of the society and away from conflicts that will destroy the country and divide the society.
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2012
The high turnout among Copts in the second phase of the referendum puts doubt on the announced results that came as 17 percent who said “yes” to the Constitution in the second phase (most likely because Copts would have voted for “no”).
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2012
Yahyá Kishk, Governor of Asyut, denied what came into the American daily newspaper The Washington Post about preventing Christians from voting in the yes-or-no referendum over the draft Constitution.
Read Washington Post article “Intimidation, fear keep Egypt’s Christians away from polls on...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Participants in “promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice” conference that took place in Saudi Arabia on December 9 called for establishing associations to promote virtue and prevent vice in all the Islamic world. They added that Islamic countries can benefit from Saudi Arabia in this regard.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Muftī of the Republic Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah said that Islam prohibited incitement to shed the blood of anyone and considered it more sacred than "Bayt Allah al-Harām" (Allah's Holy House) [referring to Mecca where Muslims go for pilgrimage]. q
Date of source: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The three main Christian denominations in Egypt stressed that they did not call Copts to boycott the constitutional referendum. They argued that Copts may choose what they want whether to boycott or participate in the yes-or-no referendum.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The three main Christian denominations in Egypt stressed that they did not call Copts to boycott the constitutional referendum. They argued that Copts may choose what they want whether to boycott or participate in the yes-or-no referendum. ['Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, December 11, p. 10] Read...
Date of source: Thursday, December 6, 2012
Cairo Criminal Court decided to refer seven expatriate Copts to the Muftī of the Republic (which means death sentence) for producing a film discrediting Prophet Muhammad
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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.