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Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2011
The Maspero Youth Union and a number of Coptic coalitions and unions threatened to organize demonstrations next week outside the ministries of education and higher education to object the announcement that examinations would start on January 8. Majdī Sābir, the Maspero Youth Union's media spokesman...
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III ordered Archpriest Sergius Sergius, deputy of the patriarchate for administrative affairs, to send Coptic Orthodox Christmas Mass invitations to all political parties including the Salafī ones like al-Asālah (Authenticity), al-Fadīlah (Virtue) and al-Nūr (Light) as...
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2011
Copts are making about 5% of an Egyptian population of 81 million, which is growing by 4500 souls daily, said Abū Bakr al-Jindī, the president of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). CAPMAS works in accordance with the rules of the global statistics community and...
Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2011
An opinion article in Sawt al-Ummah was published under the title “Mīnā Danīyāl disobeyed the church...Demanded the martyrdom and earned it.” [Īmān Mahjūb, Sawt al-Ummah, Dec. 25, p.7] Read original article in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2011
On the other hand, an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied figures about the number of Coptic migrants because of religious persecution after the revolution. Media reports had noted that the Ministry had the number of 45,000 Copts migrated because of religious discrimination in Egypt...
Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2011
Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā, Islamic thinker and presidential hopeful, for his part, said that the Egyptian media is corrupted. He added that there are attempts to divide Egyptians and warned of discriminating between Muslims, Christians, seculars and liberals. He added that Copts are partners in the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Dr. Rev. Safwat al-Bayādī, head of the Evangelical Church in Egypt, spoke of attempts to strike the religious institutions (the Azhar and Church” and harm the military institution, judiciary and intelligence.He agreed with Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II's comment that as long as the Azhar and...
Date of source: Saturday, April 27, 2013
A Coptic family has been devastated by the loss of the mother and her three children, who were murdered by another Coptic Christian in the village of al-Kushh in Sohag Governorate.
AWR editor: Remarkably, no foreign media were found reporting about this crime. If this murder had been sectarian, it...
Date of source: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has given several interviews to major Egyptian media outlets. Below are extracts and highlights of two of the interviews that were given to Egyptian national newspapers, in which Pope Tawadros discusses Christian Muslim relations in general, as well as specific...
Date of source: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Several Coptic activists protested outside the North Cairo Criminal Court in al-'Abbāsīyyah yesterday (April 24, 2013), demanding the release of Samuel Subhī and 'Atif 'Awad arrest in the incidents of Saint Mark Cathedral (Yusrī al-Badrī, 'Imād Khalīl and Fādī Francis, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Apr. 25, p...
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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.