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Date of source: Friday, February 3, 2023
In conjunction with Jordan's celebration of Interfaith Harmony Week, first proposed by King ʿAbd Allāh II of Jordan at the United Nations in 2010 in order to promote communal peace, Bahāʾīs in Jordan celebrate the establishment of the ʿAsdīa project by ʿAbbās Efendī (also known as ʿAbd al-Bahāʾ,...
Date of source: Thursday, March 2, 2023
On Monday, 27 February 2023, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights announced the launch of the "Map of Religious Freedoms" in Egypt after six years of work, with the aim of providing a documentary reference for all matters relating to freedom of religion and belief and the violations of that...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Last November, an Egyptian court sentenced lawyer and intellectual Aḥmad ʿAbduh Māhir to five years in prison for “contempt of religion” because of his book The Nation’s Misguidance in the Jurisprudence of the Imams, which criticized religious heritage. The court concluded that the book violated...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2021
On December 28, the Administrative Court of Alexandria issued a court decision rejecting a lawsuit that required the authorities to allocate land for cemeteries to non-adherents of the three religions, and to citizens of the Baha’i faith [Bahāʾī] whose religious domain on their official papers is...
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 2021
The lawyer Najīb Jibrāʾīl Mīkhāʾīl, a representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church has brought a lawsuit against the Ministry of Interior calling for the removal of religion from the National Identity Card.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Al-Ḥurra recently aired an episode of its program “Debatable” that discussed the Bahāʾī religion. In it, host Ibrāhīm ʿĪssā asked the question, “how do Bahāʾīs having houses of worship harm you as a Muslim or Christian?”
Date of source: Monday, March 2, 2020
The Bahāʾī Faith is a monotheistic religion that affirms the spiritual unity of the human race, focusing on three pillars that form the foundation of its teachings.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2018
In his novel ‘Al-Safīnah al-Ḥamrāʾ, min Bayrūt ilā al-Bahāʾiyīn’ (The Red Ship: From Beirut To The Baha'is’, the Egyptian novelist, Samīr Zakī, deals with a sensitive and thorny theme in some countries in the Arab region, namely, the Baha'i faith.
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2018
MP Muḥammad Fuʾād said that the speech of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī at the World Youth Forum on the freedom of religious belief “is very progressive and there must be policies to implement this.”
During his interview hosted by the ‘90 Minutes’ talk show, aired on al-Miḥwar TV channel, on...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 28, 2018
MP Dr. Muḥammad Fuʾād submitted a request to the House of Representatives, suggesting a briefing to be submitted by the Cabinet on the situation of the right of worship for Egyptian citizens.
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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.