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Date of source: Monday, December 5, 2022
The current leadership of the Coptic Church has a multifaceted reform agenda, both internally in regards to education, monks, rituals and administration, and externally, in regards to opening up dialogues with Western churches confidently and making continuous attempts at rapprochement. This reform...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2022
Bahrain is preparing to welcome Pope Francis I in the coming November in his second visit to the Gulf after signing the Document of Human Fraternity in the USA in 2019, where Pope Francis met the Shaykh al-Azhar and the Council of Muslim Elders. Bahrain is known for its efforts in religious...
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2022
Not a year passes without the Coptic Church announcing that a fire has broken out in one of its churches due to a short circuit, followed by the expression: “without loss of life”. These repeated fires, although limited, have seldom drawn anyone’s attention to the lack of emergency systems in...
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2022
Thanks to pressures of social media, Mary Majdī escaped a possible death. After the spread of a video of her husband beating her with a stick and threatening her with a knife when he almost killed her. The husband was referred to trial, and the first of its sessions was last Thursday. The judge...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2022
Among the publications at the Cairo International Book Fair is the Arabic translation of When Jesus Became God by the Jewish-American author, Richard E. Rubenstein, published by Dār al-Yāsmīn Publishing and translated by Usāma Naṣṣār.
The 437-page book has provoked debate since the announcement of...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2022
The issue of “modesty in church” has raised a lot of controversy in the Coptic community, especially during the wedding season that starts right after Christmas. The instructions of the bishops are renewed annually for the so-called “adjustment of clothing for attending weddings and church events”.
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2022
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of Alexandria joined Shaykh of al-Azhar Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib in rejecting the so-called Abrahamic religion. The Coptic Orthodox Church is known for its adherence to traditional faith since it was established by St. Mark the Evangelist, founder of the Coptic Church.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The Coptic Church celebrated today the feast of Jesus’ entry into Egypt. Pope Tawāḍrūs performed a mass to commemorate this occasion at Abū Sirja Church in Old Cairo, where the Holy Family resided during its stay in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2021
After a brief respite, St. Macarius Monastery in Wādī al-Rayyān has once again found its way back into the spotlight after monks woke up to find the Environmental Ministry’s demolition equipment and police working to repossess a thousand acres of the monastery’s land. According to sources, when...
Date of source: Friday, May 28, 2021
Forty-one years have passed since the founding of the youth bishopric in the 1970s. As Islamist currents of thought became more mainstream in Egyptian society, Pope Shinūda III had become concerned about the future of Christian youth. For him, the youth bishopric was a way to hand down Coptic...
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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.