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Date of source: Sunday, August 18, 2013
Interim President Adlī Mansūr has issued a decree to put the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on the Egyptian List of Terrorist Organizations and to put on trial everyone before a military court, who is proven a member of the organization. Furthermore, assets and offices of the MB inside Egypt shall be...
Date of source: Saturday, August 24, 2013
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch has urged Egyptian authorities to provide protection to Christian churches, organizations, and property and called on Islamists not to incite sectarian violence. The organization has blamed the authorities for not protecting Christians, especially as...
Date of source: Monday, September 2, 2013
Coptic Catholic Father, Rafiq Greich, media adviser for the Coptic Catholic Church, confirmed that his church welcomes the elimination from the new constitution of Article 219, regarding the principles of sharī'ah (Islamic law) and said that Article 3 is adequate as it is now. The amendments must...
Date of source: Saturday, August 31, 2013
Pope Tawadros, in an interview with Russia Today, said that the assaults on churches and Christian property were attempts to start a civil strife between Muslims and Christians. He added that they will refuse any foreign intervention, even if it is under the pretext of protecting the Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, August 9, 2013
The Coptic Orthodox Church sent a congratulatory letter to the Shaykh of al-Azhar and the Grand Muftī and some political figures in which Pope Tawadros II congratulated Muslims on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr ('Amād Khalīl, al-Masrī al-Yawm, Aug. 9). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Thursday, August 8, 2013
A Coptic girl, 10, was killed on August 6 when she left the Evangelical church in ‘Aīn Shams (Cairo) after unknown assailants opened fire on her. The prosecution decided to move her corpse from al-Matarīya hospital to Zeinhum morgue for autopsy.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2013
A state of confusion dominated Copts in Alexandria yesterday morning (July 29) following the circulation of news concerning armed attacks against Coptic Orthodox Virgin Mary and Saint Moses the Black (al-Anbā Mūsá al-Aswad, also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian and the Strong) ─ ...
Date of source: Sunday, July 28, 2013
The Coptic Church has imposed complete secrecy over Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II's location after a Muslim Brotherhood advisor called for his assassination whilst addressing sit-in protesters at Rāb'ah al-'Adāwīyyah Mosque.
The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies have openly accused the Church of...
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.