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Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
On the same court decision ruled in the case of the controversial video footage defaming Prophet Muhammad and Islam, al-Yāwm al-Sabiꞌ reported that the death ruling was based on Article 77 of the Penal Code, which states: “it shall be sentenced to death whoever deliberately committed an act...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The seven Egyptian defendants are the lawyer and founder of the Washington-based National Coptic Assembly Maurice Sādiq, the presenter of a religious program in the United States of America Marqus 'Azīz, the media coordinator of the same Nabīl Adīb, the physician Fikrī 'Abd al-'Azīz, Nakoula...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Dr. Khālid Muhammad Fahmī, the newly elected minister of environment, made yesterday, January 28, an unannounced visit to the Faiyum Governorate. During his visits, the minister inspected on the ground, the controversial seizing of the monastery of estimated 110 square kilometers of Wādī al-Rayān...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Al-Misrīyūn Islamist newspaper writes that Church sources had allegedly disclosed that Father Marqus ’Azīz, parish priest of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo is the spiritual father of the “anarchic” Black Bloc Group. Under the code name “the earthly soldiers of Christ”, Father ’Azīz initiates the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
A further reason for the concern of the Azhar is that its message of moderation to the Muslim world is at stake by an ultra-conservatism, which Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood adopt. In addition, Dr. al-Tayīb had asked the Prime Minister, Hishām Qandīl, to appoint new deputies for the Azhar...
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2013
Egypt's Salafist al-Nūr Party on Wednesday, January 9, chose Yūnis Makhīyūn as its chairman in an internal party election. Makhīyūn, who won the election uncontested, replaces former Al-Nūr leader, Dr. ’Imād ’Abd Al-Ghaffūr.
"We will do what it takes to establish a country based on justice...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 15, 2013
As preparations for Christmas celebrations continued, the Coptic Church submitted a detailed memo to the presidency in Egypt about amendments it would like to see made to the new Constitution.
These included deleting Article 219, which states that the "principles of Islamic sharī’ah include...
7. the Minister of Awqāf has embarrassed an Egyptian reporter, because she was not wearing the hijāb
Date of source: Tuesday, January 15, 2013
In an unusual and unprecedented approach by a public figure, the Minister of Awqāf (Awkaf or Endowments) Dr. Talꞌat ‘Afīfī has embarrassed an Egyptian reporter, when he refused to be interviewed by her at the conference, “Ministries beyond Barriers” because she was not wearing the hijāb.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Bishop Yuhannā Qultah, as a representative of the Catholic Church in Egypt, took part in the Constituent Assembly called upon to write a new constitution. Having studied Islamic history and philosophy, he has his own view and future perception on the crisis Egypt is currently experiencing. While...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations (EUHRO) has published a report on migration of Christians from Egypt, saying that nearly 100,000 Christians have migrated since March 2011.
The report, which was sent to President Mursī, warned that this migration of Christians out of Egypt will...
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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.