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Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
Cairo is hosting the first world conference on Muslim-Christian dialogue between the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue (IIFD) and the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC).
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2005
Copts in Egypt are complaining about the organized separation, discrimination, and exclusion that they are facing. Egyptian officials maintain that no problem exists.
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2005
Earlier this month, as Egypt’s police celebrated their day, President Hosni Mubarak honored 103 policemen and officers for distinguished performance on duty. Only one – who had lost his life in action – was Copt, meaning that Copts measured 0.97 per cent of the honorees.
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2005
Freedom to change religion, constructing churches, and employment without discrimination based on religion are the main controversial issues between the Church and the state. They also constitute the potential sources of any conflict that may arise between the two sides.
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
In 1973, the People’s Assembly held an urgent session to discuss al-Khānkah [a small town near Cairo] sectarian incident. A fact-finding committee was formed to recommend policies that would prevent such incidents in the future. The committee presented a 10-recommendation report that generally aims...
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2005
“I believe the first problem is the construction of churches. What I am saying is that there must be a unified law in which the mosque and the church are equal…We are focusing on this issue and the constitution guarantees the freedom of worship. If we really want to observe and respect the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2001
The Agricultural Directorate of Sohag refused to appoint a Christian senior specialist agronomist as a department manager and appointed instead his Muslim assistant, although the former is by far better qualified. The Christian agronomist filed a lawsuit against the Agricultural Directorate and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2000
After publishing our article last week, entitled "when the investigations are missing - p4", in which I wrote about all the problems Mr. Michael George Abdalla had in getting his right to be hired as an assistant professor in the French department of the faculty of Arts at Helwan University, I...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
An Egyptian citizen has been dismissed from the company he was working for four years. The company is owned by the Egyptian government and that of another foreign country. The company said that when he applied for work, his name did not denote that he was Christian.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2000
Inspire of the clear unambiguous laws, and despite the explicit instructions of ministers and responsibles of not disturbing Christians in their religious holidays, Christians are still complaining concerning assassinating their right in having feasts as holidays.
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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.