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Date of source: Friday, November 2, 2012
A fact-finding commission sent by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) to investigate the sectarian unrest in ‘Izbit Marco and Rajī in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef spotted several dangerous gaps that would result in sectarian problems.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd newspaper published a cartoon deriding the Muslim Brotherhood’s domination over state positions. It showed three Christian clergymen telling a child, supposedly the one to take the alter lot to name of one three finalists as pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church on Sunday (November...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Salafī Front warned the Egyptian church against attempts to internationalize the issue Sarah Ishaq ‘Abd al-Malik, a Coptic girl the Front says has converted to Islam, refusing the description of the issue as “persecution of Copts”.
“The church is trying to use the issue as a trump card to get...
Date of source: Thursday, November 15, 2012
Rūmānī Jād al-Rabb, a Coptic activist and Vice-Chairman of the al-Kalima (Word) for Human Rights, accused officials of “foot-dragging” on bringing to justice the persons involved in the October 9, 2011 clashes outside the state TV & radio building in Maspero, which left more than 20 people...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2012
A prominent bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod revealed that the 1957 statute on the election of patriarch will be amended, noting the candidates for the papal chair of Saint Mark are expected to sign a paper pledging to enforce the amendments in case they won the voting.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī performed the Friday prayers at al-Fārūq Mosque in Choueifat region, 5th District, New Cairo, close to his home. He called political movements to cooperate and to consider public interests to their own.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Mamdūh al-Walī, the chairman of the board of al-Ahrām, Cairo's leading daily newspaper, issued a decision terminating the contracts of veteran journalists and writers, including 'Abd al-Mun'im Sa'īd, the former board chairman, and 20 others.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2012
Bishop Bula, the official spokesman for the papal elections, said the church will not send any invitations for the ceremony to enthrone the new pope except for the president of the republic, Dr. Muhammad Mursī.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2012
The Salafī al-Asālah (Authenticity) Party sent a congratulatory cable to Pope Tawadrus II while al-Nūr (Light) Party and preachers of the Salafī Da’wah (Call) declined to congratulate the 118th Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2012
However, a state of cautious alert dominated the area after several Salafī preachers removed the sign placed a couple of days ago on the piece of land owned by a Copt of the name Sa’īd Mansūr Ibrāhīm.
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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.