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Date of source: Sunday, September 30, 2012
Nine Coptic families in Egyptian Rafah started packing up and leaving to the city of al-‘Arīsh following recent threats a few days ago as some members of those families said they are relocating to ‘Arīsh after the governor approved to send them there, where there are no dwelling places available...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Egypt’s top census official revealed that Egyptian Christians are 5.130 million. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Sept. 26, p. 2] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī has reiterated that all Egyptians enjoy the same rights and duties and that there is no Christian minority in Egypt, said presidential spokesman Yāsir ‘Alī, commenting on U.S. President Barack Obama’s statements on Copts’ rights in Egypt. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām,...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Supreme State Security Prosecution started questioning Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, better known as Abū Islām, the owner of al-Omma (Nation) TV station, over reports lodged against him by lawyers Hāmid Hassan and Nāsir al-‘Asqalānī, members of the Egyptian Bar Association, that he was involved in...
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius refused the Salafī Front’s accusations against Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles of involvement in the film denigrating the Prophet Muḥammad, stressing that the church has been in the forefront of parties that criticized the movie. [...
Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2012
The Azhar discredited reports by some mass media and an independent newspaper issued on Monday (September 23) that Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb has received a delegation representing all three Egyptian churches to reach an alliance in the face of the Salafists. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Khāliq, al-...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2012
Deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Dr. Rafīq Habīb said the groups that hail the dissolution of the parliament only aim to block any success by Islamists and then corner the president to call for repeating the presidential elections. [Author Not Mentioned,...
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius nodded a recent statement by the Los Angeles parish priests assembly that called for not including the name of Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles on the list of persons contained in a report to the public prosecutor in Egypt regarding a...
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2012
Today’s press overview is tackling a “weird” so-called fatwá sanctioning the killing of opponents of President Muhammad Mursī, made by Shaykh Hāshim Islām, a member of the Azhar’s fatwá committee. In his religious opinion, Islām considered the opponents as “khawārij [Kharijites which means...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Today’s overview deals with calls by a former senior U.S. diplomat, Dennis Ross, on Egypt to accept the reality and play by a set of rules, saying the record to date is not good: news reports suggest that more than 100,000 Coptic Christians have left Egypt; there have been new efforts to...
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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.