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Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Calls for changing Article II and deleting the phrase “principles of the sharī’ah” or replacing it with the phrase “rulings of the sharī’ah” triggered political frenzy amidst warnings of possible strife in the Egyptian society if this changes takes place.
Najīb Jabrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
Najīb Jabrā’īl, the organization chairman, said the church was consulted on the proposed and other names but the Coptic activists finally settled on ‘Abd al-Nūr and Marqus, both are acceptable for both the church and Christian citizens. [Muhammad Hijāb, al-Ahrām, June 29, p. 6] Read original text...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A statement by the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt and abroad congratulated Mursī over “winning the Egyptian people’s trust in the presidential election,” expressing confidence that Mursī will work on maintaining the nation’s higher interests and unity of all its groups. [Muḥammad Ḥijāb, al-Ahrām,...
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2012
“Reports asserted that the majority of Copts voted for Shafīq, ‘Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabbāhī and a fewer number voted even for former MB member ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh as well as other presidential candidates with all their different political affiliations and ideologies,” the ECHR said in a...
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2012
A conference for Coptic activists issued a 10-point guiding paper envisaging criteria for the election of a new president and emphasizing the civil nature of the state, where there will be no discrimination among the citizens.
The paper affirmed that a president of the republic must be a strong...
Date of source: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Najīb Jibrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization (EUHRO), said a plenary conference will be held for all Coptic activists and movements on May 6 to settle the Copts’ position on a candidate that would serve the nation and avoid marginalization of their issues. [Muhammad...
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2012
Bishop Pachomius met with Coptic rights activists Najīb Jibrā'īl, Mamdūh Nakhlah and Mamdūh Ramzī to discuss Coptic problems and laymen's cooperation with the church as well as the latter's vision of an Egyptian constitution and the constituent assembly. [Muhammad Hijāb, al-Ahrām, April 22, p. 6] ...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Dr. Ahmad Sa’īd, leader of the Free Egyptians Party, said that the MB are trying to monopolize the legislative and executive branches.
Eng. Abū al-‘Ilā Mādī, leader of al-Wasat Party considered the nomination of al-Shātir as the "most dangerous wrong decision by the MB”.
Dr. ‘Ammār ‘Alī Hassan...
Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Some Coptic organizations and activists, in a statement they called the March 30 Declaration, vehemently rejected the 100-member panel and “attempts by certain groups to draft the new Egyptian Constitution alone,” urging the Egyptian Church to immediately announce its position on the panel and...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Muftī of the Republic Shaykh 'Alī Jum'ah said Egypt is an Islamic nation that respects the rights of Copts as partners in the nation, noting the Iftā' House pursues a moderate approach. [Muhammad Hijāb, Khālid Ahmad al-Mat'anī and Sāmī al-Qamhāwī, al-Ahrām, Feb. 1, p. 3]
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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.