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Date of source: Saturday, June 2, 2007 to Friday, June 8, 2007
Counselor Labīb Ḥabīb Labīb accuses the Coptic Orthodox Church of violating the church canons in electing the pope. He presents texts of the laws in this regard and asserts that a pope who is not elected by the majority of believers is not acceptable according to God.
Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2007
Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to form a committee comprised of some members from the Holy Synod. The committee is supposed to urge Copts, especially the youth, to be more involved in political life and prepare them to lead a political role in the country. The church...
Date of source: Saturday, June 2, 2007 to Friday, June 8, 2007
The crisis between Waṭanī and the Coptic Orthodox Church following the laymen’s conference seems to have become chronic. Pope Shenouda has not sent his weekly article to the newspaper for two weeks. While some attributed the issue to a new phase of the pope’s anger, sources assured that the pope...
Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2007
This article talks about the new language that has lately been circulating among the people which has started to create tension and unrest within Egyptian society. These widely circulated comments are related to differences, such as between the difference between Muslim and Coptic movies,...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2007
Prominent Coptic intellectual Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá criticized Dr. Muhammad ‘Imārāh, an Islamic thinker, for attacking Pope Shenouda III on a television program. Zākhir believes that ‘Imārah and his likes pose a great threat to national unity and social development.
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2007
The Administrative Court realized the danger of conversion to Islam for fulfilling personal aims before asking to re-embrace Christianity. The author argues that the church authorization of divorce will solve complicated problems of conversion.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The recently erupted sectarian violence in al-‘Ayyāt...
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2007
In its report, the International Labour Organization [ILO] has accused the Egyptian government of discriminating against Copts in work opportunities and education. However, the minister of labor replies that Copts occupy one-third of the national wealth.
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2007
Pope Shenouda III has sent the president a memorandum, which calls for an end for the injustice practiced against Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2007
While the Arab region has had pluralist societies for a long time, political transformation, particularly what is occurring in Iraq, has awakened sectarian and ethnic intolerance.
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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.