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Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2012
Egyptian diplomats in Cairo, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, said Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd did very well when he turned down an offer to be Egypt’s ambassador to the Vatican, which itself could have objected, adding this could have been a...
Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2012
The Nasr City Court of Misdemeanor on Sunday (October 14) decided to adjourn to the October 21 session the case of Ahmad Muhammad Mahmūd ‘Abd Allāh, alias Abū Islām, who facing charges of disdaining Christianity and tearing and burning a copy of the Bible during clashes and protests against a film...
Date of source: Sunday, October 14, 2012
The papal nominations committee on Saturday (October 13) settled on a final list of candidates vying over the chair of Saint Mark in succession of Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who passed away on March 17, 2012.
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Nādir al-Sirafī, a spokesman for the 1938 Copts League, which advocates divorce and remarriage in Christianity, called on the constituent assembly, to omit Article 3 of the draft constitution. [‘Umar al-Najjār, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Nov. 1, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
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.
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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.