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Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2007
Muḥammad Ḥijāzī’s conversion has sparked protests in both religious and social milieus; the issue has also affected the political situation. In a display of compassion for Ḥijāzī, a demonstration was held in Italy that called for greater respect of religious freedom in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
The author discusses the issue of religious conversion in Egypt. He advocates legalizing conversion through a "court of conscience" to ensure that converts are sincere in their intent to embrace a new religion and that they are not being forcibly proselytized in order to overcome conversion which...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Following the amendments to the Constitution to prevent political activity on a religious basis, the author questions the implementation of this new law.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
A number of demonstrators staged a sit-in at an Evangelical church in the Ṭālibīyah suburb in Giza over what they described as the improper deeds of the church pastor, Reverend Midḥat Rif‘at ‘Ajbān.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Pope Shenouda III issued a document urging clergymen to get an appropriate efficient education that enables them to guide people and save them from theological and doctrinal deviations.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
Bishop Bīshūy rejects the propositions of a group of laymen to change the list of regulations for electing the pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He also announced the Holy Synod’s approval of a new paper by the metropolitan of Jerusalem prohibiting Copts from traveling there.
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2007
Laymen believe that the Coptic Orthodox Church does not have real laws and relies on legal texts scattered in the fathers’ books and the researches that were written in different eras. A number of their proposed reforms are discussed in this article.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
Cairo churches offer financial and in-kind aid to the refugees of Darfur. The following lines shed light on the refugees’ lives in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Farīdah Muḥammad reports on the statements of People’s Assembly member Hamdayn al-Sabāhī, editor in-chief of the newspaper al-Karāmah, in which he criticized al-Miṣrī al-Yawm and accused it of igniting sectarian tension.
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2007 to Friday, August 24, 2007
This article shows the opinions of a number of leading journalists regarding the state-owned press and the calls to privatize it.
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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.