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Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
The signing of the documents indicates the renewed commitment to renounce violence and to protect the rights of citizens from the use of excessive violence by security institutions. The document confirms that it is the duty of the state and its security institutions to protect the security of...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
European Parliament held last Wednesday a session that lasted for about three hours in Brussels for hearing expatriate Copts living in a number of European countries. During the session, the political situation under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Muhammad Mursī has been tackled....
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
Al-Sabāh interviewed Father Dā’ūd al-Rayānī, the spokesman of the Monastery of Saint Macarius, after reported clashes between the bedouins and the monks living in the historic monastery have increased in the last two years. According to Father Dā’ūd, the repeated clashes seem to be more like “a...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
Member of the Senior Scholar Authority of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad ‘Umar Hāshim said that in accordance to the Azhar Bylaw No. 13 for the year 2012 , the candidates for the position of the future muftī are exclusively nominated by the Authority; he added that the nominees do not necessarily have to be...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
Reviewing his achievements since his appointment as Grand Muftī of Egypt in 2003, Shaykh ‘Alī Jum’ah has become a leading advocate for moderation. He has revolutionized the process of issuing fatwás in Egypt, transforming Dār al-Iftā’ from an institution that was the extension of one individual (...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The privately-owned Islamist al-Misrīyūn reported yesterday, January 30, that the three major Coptic Churches have not been invited to the national dialogue sessions held between civil and political representatives and the presidential administration.
Coptic activists stated that the Churches do...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Coptic Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Churches of Egypt are celebrating massesto raise prayers for the safety of Egypt and her preservation from violence the country is enduring.
Further, the three Churches declared that, upon their prior withdrawal from the national dialogue sessions,...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Egyptian police were imposing tight security measures on Wednesday in the village of Shaykh al-Arab in Jirjā, Sohag, following a fight between a Muslim family and another Christian one. The persons engaged in the fight were a Muslim retired policeman and his son and three Christian brothers....
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
A group of Salafī youth attempted to destroy the shrine of an Islamic patron known as "Shaykh Bahlaq"; according to the residents of the Kūm al-Saꞌādah village of Sohag Governorate, Upper Egypt, Salafīs considered the deceased Shaykh have committed ‘shirk’ (sin of idolatry in Islam). The people...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
On the second anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, the Union of Coptic Organizations in Europe declared its full support and its rejection of what the declaration disclosed as "fascistic security measures" against the demonstrators and their demands. The declaration further states that the...
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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.