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Date of source: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Participants of a march in Damietta have condemned the latest incidents of sectarian strife in the city of al-Khusūs, as well as the violence that occurred in front of the Cathedral during the funeral of the victims of al-Khusūs clashes. Participants of the rally chanted slogans against the Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
A commission was formed to restore calm in Dahshūr, continues its work to settle the sectarian differences in Dahshūr of l-Giza governorate. At the end of last week Bishrī Yūsuf Nisīm was killed by an unknown in Dahshur. Only in the middle of last year another guy, namely Muhammad Mu’āz, was killed...
Date of source: Sunday, March 31, 2013
The Evangelical Church in Tripoli, Libya has declared that it will not hold Easter Celebrations this year, as it fears anger and attacks from extremists. Recently there have been violent attacks against Christians in Libya, including the bombing of a church in Misrata, which killed two Egyptian...
Date of source: Friday, March 22, 2013
Security forces in Sohag succeeded in controlling what appears to be sectarian strife following the outbreak of an armed brawl between a Muslim family and a Christian family over a piece of land owned by the state. The clashes took place in the village of al-Khizindārīyah in Tahtā Township. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Shaykh Abū Islām of the Islamic Channel “Ummah” said the celebration of Mother’s Day is wrong. During his program Hizbollah added that Mother’s Day is a transitional day for those that have lost their mothers. Additionally, they claimed Mother’s Day is a Christian holiday that has no relation to...
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2013
The presidency has made many efforts to convince the Coptic Orthodox Church to participate in the national dialogue called for by President Muhammad Morsi (Author not mentioned, al-Dustūr, Mar. 1, p. 4). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2013
A delegation of the Church left the Papal residency on Thursday morning, February 28. Bishop Pachomius of Beheira and the five Western cities, headed the delegation. The delegation was further made up of: Bishop Bishoy of Damietta; Bishop Raphael, secretary of the Holy Synod; Bishop Bīmin of Qūs...
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2013
Hundreds of people from the Church, including bishops and priests, protested in front of the Beni Suef Security Department demanding an end to the repeated encroachment of church property at the hands of some Muslims who security leaders have accused of colluding to expel Copts from the country (...
Date of source: Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Administrative Court at the Council of State has repealed a Mubārak-era law relating to church building. Law number 291 from 2005 gave governors the authority to issue licenses to Christian religious communities regarding the building, expansion, refurbishment, or demolition of existing...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Coptic Orthodox Church has confirmed its refusal to participate in the national dialogue called for by President Muhammad Mursī. According to Father Angelous, the secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, the Church has a spiritual foundation and it has a national role, not a political one. The...
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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.