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Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Coalition for the Support of New Muslims is a newly-emerging entity that cannot be ignored in Egypt. Formed after the January 25 revolution, it comprises names of several clerics like Shaykh Hāfiz Salāmah, salafī preacher ‘Abd al-Muni’m al-Shahāt and Khālid Harbī, the director of the web site...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Coptic activists called for a strong institution or organization that includes all Coptic organizations. This institution will temporarily replace the Milī Church Council, whose activities were frozen.
This Coptic institution will help in Coptic social lives.
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Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2011
No one wants a pure theocracy that enjoys no legitimacy and likewise no one either wants a secularist nation with no sharī'ah (Muslim law), writes the author in a column in the independent newspaper al-Shurūq al-Jadīd.
The coming Egyptian constitution has to be more democratic and civilized and...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church had demanded from the Cabinet to present it with the Unified Law for Building Houses of Worship.
A church source assured that the cathedral refuses the idea of financial supervision of the church, because the church does not get donations from the State but from...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Papal See warned Maspero priests from attributing statements to the Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III. This came as a comment on Archpriest Mattias Nas'sr statements during the protest, saying that the Pope withdrew his words about ending the protest.
Furthermore, he stated that the Pope is...
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2011
“Islam doesn’t need anyone, most of the girls who convert to Islam convert just to marry a Muslim man and not because of the religion itself” says Yūssif Sakr, Dr ‘Amr Abd al Rahman’s lawyer.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2011
Rūsā 'Attā Allah, the mother of the victim Mina Nabīl Hilāl, has been going to Tahrīr square every day since January 29, 2011, seeking retribution for her son's killers.
Her son, 22-years-old, died on January 29, 2011, during the revolution, as a result of a bullet to his head.
All his dreamed of,...
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2011
A girl below the age of 16 and her boyfriend capitalized on the sectarian atmosphere to persuade a shaykh to help them get married after they eloped from the governorate of Sohag to the governorate of Suez.
The lovers had played the same trick before at the Azhar office headquarters and some other...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
A meeting was held between Muslims and Christian clerics and civil society entitled, "Egypt's sons serving Egypt," and with the slogan "Conciliatory to face fitnah tā'ifīyah through developing projects that serve poor towns."
During the meeting, the governor of Giza decided to facilitate...
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2011
In al-Jumhūrīyah, page 1, May 20, 2011, reports noted that the Coptic Maspero protests may be solved after a decision to reopen four churches and the release of Coptic detainees in Maspero incidents, proven to be not involved in the incident.
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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.