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Date of source: Sunday, September 15, 2013
Coptic parents in Asyut are alarmed. They fear for the lives of their children. The school year starts while the situation is still under tense and with political controversies current. Out of fear of attacks or kidnapping, parents demanded a postponement of the start of the school year by at least...
Date of source: Thursday, September 5, 2013
Mīnā Thābit, president of the emerging People's Initiative Party, has demanded Pope Tawadros to enforce a package of reforms for the Church. Foremost, he demands a review of some theological opinions issued by his predecessor Pope Shenouda III and to overcome the obstacles for Christian pilgrims in...
Date of source: Thursday, August 22, 2013
The International Society for Human Rights in Germany has published a strongly-worded statement in which it accuses the Muslim Brotherhood of burning churches and harassing nuns. The statement defined the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
The report on the Brotherhood said, “What the...
Date of source: Monday, October 7, 2013
Coptic Businessman, Naguib Sawiris, criticized the Muslim Brotherhood and the deposed president, Muhammad Morsi (Mursī). He stated that he has given himself divine powers and treated him as a second-class citizen. He denied having pacts with the Muslim Brotherhood. He stated that Ambassador Rifā’ah...
Date of source: Friday, October 4, 2013
A number of Salafī figures have criticized the issuance of a law that criminalizes refusing to salute the flag and one that prohibits parties on a religious basis (Mustafá Hāsim and Muhammad al-Fikī, al-Shurūq, Oct. 4, p. 4). Read the original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Friday, October 4, 2013
The vice president of the Salafī Call, Yāssir Burhāmī, continued to criticize the Constituent Assembly and stated that to refer to the Egyptian identity in the Constitution is a way of getting around the Muslim creed of the ummah (the Islamic nation) (Ahmad Badrāwī, al-Shurūq, Oct. 4, p. 4). This...
Date of source: Friday, October 4, 2013
A number of representatives of the Popular Movement for the Independence of Al-Azhar in the Constituent Assembly requested the deletion of Article III of the Constitution, which refers Christians and Jews to their own religious codes, but that the text of Article II remains unchanged.
Sāmih Ashūr...
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Maspero Youth Union coordinator in Alexandria, Ramī Qashu’, stated that the union decided in coordination with the central movement in Cairo to suspend their protests due to the attack on the church in al-Warrāq until the government responds. He stated that their requests include the dismissal...
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2013
The funeral of Karīm Jirjis, a Copt who was shot dead when he was in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, took place on Thursday (Dec. 6) at Virgin Mary and Saint Stephen Church in Shubrā el Khaymah.
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Bishop Benjamin, the bishop of Menoufia, stated that the attack on the Church in al-Warrāq is alien to Egypt and that non-Egyptian elements are possibly responsible for it as well as the other terrorist attacks that aim at destabilizing the country and causing strife between Copts and Muslims (...
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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.