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Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2013
al-Misrīyūn newspaper reports that informed sources disclosed that upon the instruction of the Coptic Orthodox Church, a large number of Egyptian Christians have withdrawn their deposit funds from Egyptian banks over the past week and converted their money into foreign currencies, fearing the...
Date of source: Friday, May 10, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II left Cairo yesterday (May 9, 2013) for Rome to visit the Vatican Pope Francis I for the first time. The purpose of Pope Tawadros' visit is to improve relations between the Vatican and Coptic Orthodox Church. Pope Tawadros also believes that the Coptic problems in...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has refused to continue to lodge at the Papal Headquarters of his predecessor, the late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, to the surprise of the Church leadership. Pope Tawadros decided to move to the Coptic Cultural Centre without reason. According to a source,...
Date of source: Thursday, February 14, 2013
The inauguration celebrations for the new Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, John X Yazigi, were held at the Holy Cross Church in Damascus. According to anonymous sources, Pope Tawadros II sent a congratulatory cable. Representing Bashar al-Assad at the inauguration was Mansour...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth has refused the post of the official spokesperson for the Orthodox Coptic Church of Egypt although the pressure exerted on him by Pope Tawadros to accept the position (John 'Abd al-Malāk, al-Misrīyūn, Feb. 6, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
According to the report, the sources noted that since his enthronement last November, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II was keen to held regular talks with "the large (Egyptian) minorities" that would serve the issues of the Copts. The Pope is also holding confidential contacts to Shī'ah leaders in...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Three Christian churches lashed out at expatriate Copts who produced a movie offending the Prophet Muhammad. Maurice Sādiq, who was stripped of his Egyptian nationality and Pastor Terry Jones produced the film.
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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.