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Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2013
Bishop Jeremiah, the general bishop and the head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, has visited the Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyīb the Shaykh of Al-Azhar in the village of Qirnah in Luxor and wished him a quick recovery after sitting for a heart catheterization (Nagwá Bikhīt, al-Dustūr, Dec. 8, p...
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2013
Human Rights activist, Fadī Yūssuf, the founder of the Coalition of Egyptian Copts, has revealed plans within the Coalition to draft a law to curb sectarian strife in Egypt. He added that the law will regulate all issues that are used as pretexts for sectarian strife including conversions and...
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2013
Sufi groups are mobilizing their followers to give a “yes” vote in the coming constitutional referendum. The Union of Sufi Orders and revolutionary groups are launching today the “Yes to the Constitution” campaign in the context of the national consensus over the Constitution. (‘Alī Rajab, al-...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab returned to Egypt yesterday after a visit to Münster University in Westphalia in North Germany. He was invited by the university to attend a celebration to commemorate a year after the establishment of the Islamic Creed Study Center in which about 500 students study (Ayāh Fathi, al...
Date of source: Friday, December 6, 2013
Pope Tawadros has received the Ambassadors of Spain and Italy in the Cathedral. The meeting, which was attended by a clerical delegation, discussed the future of Egypt (Majdī Fikrī and Nagwá Bikhīt, al-Dustūr, Dec. 6, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Meanwhile, Mājid Rīyād, the legal advisor for the church, said 14 bishops have applied their papers so far to vie over the papal position of the St. Mark Church, including Bishop Mūsá of Youth, Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, Bishop Makarius of al-Minya and Bishop Raphael, General...
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2013
Bishop Antonios Nicolas, the official spokesman of the Roman Orthodox Church, stated that the Egyptian Clerical Council has finalized its internal by-laws. He stated that the draft by-laws have been distributed to the representatives of the five denominations (Nagwá Bikiyt, al-Dustūr, Dec. 9, p. 5...
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2013
Bishop Bola, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Constituent Assembly, stated that the issue of the amendment of the wording of the Preamble must not stop us from celebrating the completion of this Constitution. He added:
I respect the Salafī representatives despite the fact...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Dar al-Iftā’ (the Religious Decree Institution) has denounced Dutch politician Geert Wilder’s (Member of the Dutch Parliament and head of the Party for Freedom) statements insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad which appeared on the “Gate of Vienna” website and were republished by CNN-Arabic (...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The secular Christian stream has denounced the events that have taken place in Nazlit ‘Ābid and Hiwārtah. Leaders of the stream requested Counselor Adly Mansūr to intervene to protect the unity of Egypt after Copts have been “targeted by terrorists”. They stated that the events show that there is...
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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.