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Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
The committee undertaking registration of voters to elect the 118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March, will announce the voter lists after endorsement by acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius on Monday (January 23).
“The number of eligible...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
Bishop Pachomius, after settling on a final list of candidates for the Saint Mark chair, will produce some documentaries so the church may acquaint the Coptic voters with the candidates.
The documentaries will include the candidates’ CVs and most prominent milestones in their service of the Coptic...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
The committee undertaking registration of voters to elect the 118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March, will announce the voter lists after endorsement by acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius on Monday (January 23).
“The number of eligible...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
The position of the Coptic brothers who refused to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the U.S. interference in Egypt’s internal affairs is worthy of appreciation and respect.
Clinton does not want only to interfere in Egypt’s affairs and dictate the U.S. will on the Egyptian people...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), in its eighth annual report, recommended the expansion of the space of national accordance in the drafting of a new constitution for Egypt.
The report stressed the need to give more interest in the fundamental human rights values as a basis for writing...
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution of 1971 reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists sought removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, called on the church to withdraw from the constituent assembly drafting a new Egyptian constitution if a court ruling was not issued to dissolve it.
“The text that makes the Azhar the only reference for the...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The activists who signed the statement said Clinton and other U.S. politicians who visited Cairo since the outbreak of the January 25 revolution held a series of meetings that betrayed their and the U.S. administration’s encouragement of political Islam groups while ignoring politicians from other...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The Egypt Copts Coalition and Coptic politicians said that Clinton’s visit aims at “dividing Egypt on a sectarian basis, which is rejected by the Egyptian people in general and the Copts in particular”.
They added that the division started when she met Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and salafī figures...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, called on the church to withdraw from the constituent assembly drafting a new Egyptian constitution if a court ruling was not issued to dissolve it.
“The text that makes the Azhar the only reference for 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.