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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The Administrative Court at the Council of State has repealed a Mubārak-era law relating to church building.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...
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Pastor Ridā Thābit, President of Synod of the Nile (the High Council of the Evangelical Church), said that Egypt will not gain from the haphazardness except shame, adding that the haphazardness of the regime embarrasses Egypt in front of the world.
That came during a press conference organized by...
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Additionally, al-Tayyīb said that there is no sectarian strife in Egypt between Muslims and Christians. He called Islamic and Christian clerics to confront any fanaticism from both sides with wisdom and good preaching (Author not mentioned, al-Dustūr, Mar. 7, p. 4). Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A Coptic Orthodox Church source said that Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II will ordain six new monks from different monasteries on Sunday, March 10, 2013. The new monks will be distributed in new dioceses. Further, the Pope will consecrate four general bishops in certain dioceses that the Pope...
Date of source: Friday, February 22, 2013
Dr. Rev. Safwat al-Bayādī, head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, wrote an opinion piece in al-Dustūr, comparing the internal and external crises facing the Church today, and focusing on the internal issues as he believes they are more dangerous. Primarily he discusses the effects of the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 21, 2013
During a press conference held on Tuesday Feb. 26, al-Katībah al-Tībīyah “Theban Legion” Christian magazine stressed their firm rejection of violence. According to Rāmī Kāmil, a political activist and one of the members of the al-Katībah al-Tībīyah, it is an ecclesiastical family that has been...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II met the Captain-General of the general union of media, al-Sayyīd al-Shāzlī, and a delegation of journalists at the Papal headquarters St. Mark Cathedral in al-‘Abbāssīyah. They discussed the journalists’ assessment of the Pope’s national position (Author not...
Date of source: Friday, February 15, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said during his weekly sermon that Christ came to unite everyone and to reconcile the world. He added, “Do not wait for others to love you, but you should offer your love to your brothers in humanity”. He also said that conflicts in the world are due to the absence...
Date of source: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Also on Wednesday, Pope Tawadros II met the Saudi Ambassador, Ahmad Qatān, in Cairo. The visit is the first of its kind since Pope Tawadros took his position as Coptic Orthodox Pope of Egypt (Majdī Fikrī and Sahar Sa'd Allah, al-Dustūr, Feb. 14, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic
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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.