Displaying 241 - 250 of 1884.
Date of source: Sunday, May 22, 2011
Copts will end their almost two-week protest at the Egyptian State TV building on 22 May 2011, said Metias Nasr, priest at the Virgin Mary Church in Ezbet al-Nakhl and a leader of the protest. The majority of protesters heeded Nasr’s call and the stage set up for speeches was dismantled. Arguments...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI met with the new Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil el-Arabi on 18 May, 2011, amid concerns over the safety of Christians caught up in the Arab revolutions of the Middle East. The meeting, which followed talks between Arabi and Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican's foreign minister, took...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Ignoring a petition from Pope Shenouda III, hundreds of Copts yesterday continued a nine-day sit-in outside the official TV Building near the Cairo Nile, as investigations proved recent clashes in the area were not religiously motivated. More Copts joined the protest asking for perpetrators in...
Date of source: Monday, May 16, 2011
Pope Shenouda III called on Christians to”immediately” end their week-long protests outside the official TV building on 15 May 2011, a day after clashes near the Cairo Nile left 78 injured. Clashes broke out after an altercation between a young Muslim and Coptic Christians who have been staging a...
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2011
Young members of the Muslim Brotherhood are considering supporting Abdel-Moneim Abul Fotouh, a high-ranking member of the group's Executive Bureau, a candidate for Egypt's presidency in the coming elections. A prominent young figure in the group, Mohamed Shams, said Abdul Fotouh is “an Islamic...
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2011
A military prosecutor ordered the detention of a woman whose rumored captivity in a church triggered deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians im Imbābah on Saturday, May 7, 2011.
Protesters demanded the release of 'Abīr Fakhrī, a woman who allegedly converted to Islam. Fakhrī was sent to a...
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2011
'Abd el-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh, a senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, said he would run for president as an independent, a move that could draw votes from backers of the Islamist group that has said it will not field a candidate.
Abū al-Futūh said his move did not mean the Brotherhood had...
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2011
The government announced it would prepare a law within a month to ease restrictions on building churches, while banning protests in front of places of worship, after attacks on Cairo churches.
The government is also moving to reopen churches closed under President Mubarak. It would study the cases...
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2011
On May 12, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces warned it would strike down sectarianism.
It was added that “any bid to wedge a stake between the Army and the people would be firmly confronted,” Ismā'īl 'Itmān, a member of the Council, said “To the Egyptian people, I say: the Army is yours. It's...
Date of source: Thursday, May 12, 2011
In the absence of firm political and social action, the events in Imbābah may not be the last episode of sectarian strife.
An activist says Muslims and Christians are living in a state of acute polarization, in which you can easily find Christians who think that all Muslims are violent and Muslims...
Pages
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.