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Date of source: Wednesday, August 4, 2021
The Sharqiyya Diocese announced the return of a Coptic girl, Raymonda Sameh [Raymūndā Sāmiḥ], after it was rumoured she disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Bishop Maqār, bishop of al-Sharqiyya, thanked the Ministry of Interior and the security services for the girl’s safe return.
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2021
The Coptic Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Community, represented in, Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, and Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, the President of the Evangelical Community in Egypt, mourn with great sadness the martyrs of the homeland who died in the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2021
The Ministry of Youth and Sports signed a memorandum of understanding with the Social Coptic Foundation for Development (EGYCOPT), on Sunday, to provide training grants for young men and women to qualify them for the needs of the labor market
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2021
Ambassador Nabīla Makram ʿAbd al-Shahīd, Minister of State for Immigration and Egyptian Expatriate Affairs, met with His Grace Bishop Joseph, General Bishop for Africa, to discuss strengthening cooperation and coordination within the framework of ‘Egypt’s Voice in Africa’ initiative.
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 2021
Munṣif Sulaymān, Legal Advisor to the Coptic Orthodox Church and member of the House of Representatives, announced the completion of reviewing the Family Law (Personal Status for Copts) in the Ministry of Justice. All sides have agreed on all articles of the draft law after 16 sessions that brought...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Ḥamāda al-Ṣāwī confirmed that the Public Prosecution Service will follow a set approach in all cases of antiquity smuggling, which align with the state’s plan to recover any smuggled antiques abroad.
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2021
On June 23, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) submitted documents to the ‘Fund for Honouring Martyrs, Victims, Missing and the Injured of War, Security Operations and Terror Attacks, and their Families’, regarding the Egyptian Coptic martyrs who were killed by Dāʿish in 2015.
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2021
Being a refugee in a country that is not one’s own is difficult. That person is neither equal to the citizens of the host country, nor are they able to return to their own country. The only effective way to support refugees in any country is through education, giving individual refugees the skills...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Fr. Mūsā Ibrāhīm, official spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church, announced that Pope Tawādrūs II decided to form a commission to follow up on the legal consequences around the issue of Wādī al Rayyān.
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2021
After a brief respite, St. Macarius Monastery in Wādī al-Rayyān has once again found its way back into the spotlight after monks woke up to find the Environmental Ministry’s demolition equipment and police working to repossess a thousand acres of the monastery’s land. According to sources, when...
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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.