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Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2011
AWR's Hānī Hamdī continues to survey Egyptian newspaper coverage of the Alexandria church bombing. He reports that Tuesday's coverage focused primarily on Coptic protests, which continue in different areas of Egypt some three days after the attack...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2011
Egyptian newspapers on Monday appeared to carefully avoid charges of stoking the fires of sectarianism, largely refraining from sensationalist reporting on the Alexandria church attack, and instead giving much attention to unification efforts between Muslims and Christians, as well as ongoing...
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2011
AWR's Hānī Hamdī provides a recap of Sunday's Egyptian newspaper reports dealing with the New Year's Day attack on a Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria....
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 2010
‘Imād al-Dīn al-Jadīd criticizes Pope Shenouda’s weekly sermon on Wednesday at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (al-‘Abbāsiyyah) in which he stated that he demands the blood of those who were killed in the Al-‘Umrāniyyah incident.
Al-Jadīd believes that the Pope should rather leave what...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2011
The United States Department of State recently issued a declaration claiming that freedom of religion in Egypt is underwhelming, saying that minorities suffer from religious discrimination in various aspects of social and political life. After this, it was announced that the Azhar and the church...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2011
The past year witnessed fourteen different Salafīyah demonstrations against the Coptic Orthodox Church, demanding that Pope Shenouda be deposed and that Christian women who had allegededly converted to Islam and been imprisoned be released.
However, an opposing Salafīyah streams emerged that banned...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2011
The most controversial fatwás issued in year 2010 were:
- The father who gives her daughter in marriage to someone who an older man is an evil doer and must forfeit the guardianship of his sons.
- The punishment of the parents, mediator, lawyer, and husband involved in the underage marriage of a...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2011
Pope Shenouda will not deliver his regular sermon in Alexandria on January 2.
In total, the Pope delivered 10 sermons in Alexandria this year, his smallest number ever.
The Pope has recently skipped his regular sermons because of medical trips to the United States, attendance at the inaugurations...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2011
Headline: September 11 is an American conspiracy, says Shaykh ‘Abd al-Majīd al-Zindānī
Source: Al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī
Page: 24-25
Author: Ilhāmī al-Malījī
Keywords: Shaykh
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Headline: In 2011...Copts expecting increase in sectarian fitnah and clashes between church and...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2010
On May 29, 2010, the Supreme Administrative Court obliged Pope Shenouda to allow remarriage of divorced Copts, which triggered clashes between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the judiciary.
Counselor Muhammad al-Husīn announced from the judiciary bench, “The sanctity of verdicts prevail over any...
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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.