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Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
The Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs in Palestine (HCC) has condemned an attempt by Israeli extremists to assault the St. Eliās Church of the Greek Catholic Church in Ḥaifā.
Date of source: Friday, July 28, 2023
Minister of Awqāf (religious endowments) Muḥammad Mukhtār Jum ͑a and Governor of al-Jīza General Aḥmad Rāshid met leading preachers in the governorate of al-Jīza on Friday to discuss issues related to the regulation of the adhān (Muslim call for prayers).
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Palestine’s parliamentary committee condemned the assault by extremist Jews on the Mār Eliās Church in the city of Ḥaifā, which was (according to Zionists) under the pretext of official security protection.
Date of source: Saturday, June 10, 2023
Human history has been generous to us Egyptians as it has gifted us with many privileges, including Pharaonic civilization with its deep-rooted rich culture, and the fact that many peoples, nations and old kingdoms have passed here.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
On Wednesday, al-Azhar condemned a raid on the al-Aqṣā mosque and on Palestinian worshippers by the “Zionist entity” as “a repeated act of terrorism”, decrying the silence of the international community which “pays only lip service to the protection of places of worship.”
Date of source: Saturday, February 11, 2023
The Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf (charitable endowments) recently announced that they have begun to receive applications for a number of vacancies for imāms and mosque caretakers. This comes almost a month after it announced the need to fill the posts, in what appears to be surrender to the status...
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2023
The Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) discredited a video clip showing an imām playing soccer inside a mosque, which sparked an outcry amongst Muslims in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2023
Sheikh Muḥammad Abū al-Qatʿa, who appeared in a video playing football inside the mosque, revealed that the boys who appeared with him had been training outside whilst it was raining, and that what he did was not a violation of Sharīʿa.
Date of source: Monday, December 19, 2022
Reverend Andriya Zakī, head of the Evangelical Community in Egypt, said that the construction of 428 churches has been legalized in the past 5 years, out of a total of 1,070 churches and buildings proposed by the community. This is in accordance with the Law on the Building and Restoration of...
Date of source: Monday, November 7, 2022
In email correspondence. Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded to our earlier discussion about the Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of ʿUmar since I was working on a paper on my correspondence with late Dutch scholar Dr. Hans Jansen (1942-2015). Jansen argued that the code of ‘Umar and...
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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.