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Date of source: Monday, October 31, 2011
Head of the Coptic Christian Church Pope Shenouda III today decided to cancel the celebration of his 40th year as Pope to stand in solidarity with martyrs’ families.
The Pope decided to cancel the celebration both because of the poor situation in Egypt and because the Copts recently lost 23 of...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Hundreds of Muslims in al-Marīnāb village of Idfū town, Aswan governorate, set Saint George's Church on fire, and then used sharp equipments to demolish the church's domes and ceilings, in addition to setting light to four Coptic houses.
Security forces came late and failed to prevent the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
In Banī Mazār village, al-Minya governorate, al-Shaykh Fadl Secondary School refused to let a Coptic girl, first secondary grade, in for the eighth day running for refusing to wear a hijāb.
When the girl's father went to school to object the measure, the school administration filed a libel report...
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2011
The Egyptian Cabinet is scheduled to send a fact-finding team from the National Justice Commitee to investigate the Saint George's Church Crisis in al-Marīnāb village of Idfū city in Aswan governorate.
The crisis erupted three weeks ago when Muslims objected to building domes on the church and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Cairo to meet with Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and Muhammad Badī', Murshid (Guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as other prominent members of the group.
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2011
For their part, the Coptic youth movement Maspero Youth issued a statement in which it declared its deep concern at the dominion of the Islamist currents. They revealed their total discontent with the raising of the Saudi flag by the Islamists, and said they were fully prepared to defend the option...
Date of source: Sunday, July 31, 2011
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A shooting in the village of Nazlat Rūmān in the center of Abū Qurqāṣ, Minya, has killed two Copts and left a further two in hospital, one of whom remains in critical condition. Over 3,000 people attended the funeral. Hundreds of Copts gathered outside the hospital in outrage and protested for...
Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2011
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Pope Shenouda III, pope of Alexandria and head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, has begun an investigation into Bishop Bula and Father Royce Aweidah, Chariman and Secretary of the Clerical Council respectively, about what happened during the Coptic sit-in on Monday.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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The church released an official statement about the demonstrations of Copts in front of the Clerical Council demanding civil marriage.
In the statement, Archpriest Ruways 'Iwayda, Secretary of the Council, said the Council itself is not entitled to give legislation, but rather an organization...
Date of source: Monday, July 11, 2011
Church leaders have said that the recent speech given by Prime Minister Dr. 'Isam Sharaf mainly aimed to appease the situation in the country after protesters staged a sit-in in al-Tahrīr Square.
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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.