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Date of source: 31 Jul 2018
The meeting comes as part of the joint cooperation between the Coptic Catholic Church and the KEDA in partnership with the Arab Women Investors Union under the supervision of Dr. Hudā Jalāl.
During the meeting, a bilateral cooperation agreement was signed between the KEDA and the Coptic Catholic...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 3 Oct 2018
Anba Bīshūy was born to a father descending from the Martyr St. Sīdhum Bishāy, one of the well-known martyrs of the Church during the era of Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha. He excelled at school although his father died when he was 4 years old and was raised by his uncle.
In 1963, he joined the village...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 29 Sep 2018
ʿAbd Ḥakīm said during a speech in a seminar about the leader ʿAbd al-Nāṣir in his museum in Heliopolis, that the High Dam is not the invention of his father, it is a project was present in 1924 submitted by a Greek engineer to the king who described the engineer as an insane man and rejected the...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 29 Sep 2018
Father Bīshūyexpressed his happiness about this visit, and he spoke about the The Coptic Catholic seminary, the history of its establishment, what it means to study theology, and the duration of the study in the seminary, which is eight years. He also spoke about the different aspects that the...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 29 Sep 2018
In a response to questions raised by the church's subjects during the pope's visit to St. Mary & St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States, He explained that the Orthodox Church sends monks and nuns to Jerusalem and that the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate has churches, schools and...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 9 Jul 2018
During his speech in the "Together for Egypt" conference, Anba Armīa (General Bishop, head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center and Assistant Secretary General of the Egyptian Family House) said that the youth are the key of success for any state, indicating that division is the reason behind any...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018
He stated also that there are some groups seeking to attack the Pope because of his support to the state and the political leadership, indicating that they always seek to undermine the unity of the church amid the consecutive events. He described this as an inappropriate conduct that needed a...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018
According to the Spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, Father Būlus Ḥalīm, Pope Tawāḍrūs expressed his pleasure with participating in the 25th anniversary of the diocese, stressing that he was interested in existing among his sons on this occasion and that he is proud of all forms of service...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 27 Sep 2018
"This service comes within the framework of supporting the evangelical churches in Egypt, through building the capacities of young people, pastoralists and servants, benefiting the church and the Egyptian society," Zakī said. He also stressed that this is an integral part of the duties of the...
Reviewed by Yosra el-Gendi [Yusrá al-Jundī]
Translator Yosra el-Gendi [Yusrá al-Jundī]
Date of source: 29 Sep 2018
He added that the church was built in the third century AD in the place where the Holy Family has stayed; most of it was destroyed in the sixteenth century AD. There was only one altar in the middle temple in the name of the Virgin Mary. The altar was built with ancient bricks. At that time,...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 9 Jul 2018
As outlined in the report, the Coptic Orthodox in Egypt is the oldest and largest Christian community in the Middle East. They make up 10% of the over 90 million population and spread all over the country with intense concentration in central Egypt. However, they have limited representation in the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Jul 2018
The museum includes the coffins in which the martyrs' bodies were flown to Egypt and their belongings such as the clothing worn by them when they got killed at the hands of ISIL in Libya more than two years ago.
It is worth mentioning that the bodies of the 21 Egyptian Copts martyred in Libya...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 11 Jul 2018
In a statement issued on Wednesday, al-Azhar Chiefdom indicated that the first lecture was entitled “An Introduction to the Study of Religious Text” and focused on clarifying what is meant by studying the religious text, how to conduct it, and the importance of shifting from the theoretical...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Jul 2018
In his commentary, Pastor Būlus Ḥalīm told al-Waṭan that the prayer is for peace in the Middle East and the world as a whole, and a sensation of the pains suffered by all the humans, in general, and the diaspora Christians, in particular.
Ḥalīm added that the prayer was performed by the Catholic...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Jul 2018
In light of his relationship with ʿĀshūr, the writer claims that he played a key national role in the consolidation of Muslim-Christian relations and was one of the pioneers of the rapprochement of Islamic schools of thought for the unity of religion.
He also says that ʿĀshūr’s approach was...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 10 Oct 2018
The Congregational Council [al-Majlis al-Millī]
The most recent statement from the Coptic Orthodox Church, made by official Church spokesman Fr. Būlus Ḥalīm on the home page of the Media Center and attributed to the Congregational Council, has given rise to a controversy. This is especially as the...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 10 Jul 2018
Since he started his papacy, he decided to address a number of thorny issues, including the personal status, family affairs, the inter-communal relations and the permanent communication between the people and the church. For instance, he strengthened the relationship between his church and the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
In a statement on Tuesday Ḥalīm said that Pope Tawāḍrūs laid the foundation stone for four service buildings during his visit. He ordained eleven priests to the rank of Hegumen, two to the level of priests, and one to the level of archdeacon.
Moreover, Pope Tawāḍrūs held 14 meetings with various...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
While it currently has no actual powers or responsibilities, the Council has historically been responsible for the administrative and non-religious aspects of the Church. The Council traditionally monitors Church funds and functions as the Personal Status court for the Copts, regulating marriage,...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
The idea for the establishment of the Egyptian Council of Churches (ECC) was that of Pope Shinūda III. The Council brings together five Egyptian churches representing various denominations, namely the Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical, Episcopal, Greek Orthodox, and Coptic Catholic. [Monika Jirjis and...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
The Israeli website Kikar HaShabbat said that the Interior Minister Aryeh Deri monitored and handed over the budget to the municipality after receiving a request from the Egyptian ambassador to Tel Aviv.
The website pointed out that Deri was supported by some members of the Israeli right despite...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 10 Oct 2018
The book deals with the study of Coptic celebratory forms and practices through the collection, classification, and analysis of the customs, traditions, and practices associated with Coptic celebrations in their cultural and social context. The study tracks changes that have occurred in an attempt...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 10 Oct 2018
According to Church sources, the clerical councils in various governorates of Egypt are currently issuing defining decrees concerning the personal status of the Copts. Many Copts have been granted decisions of divorce and separation according to the Holy Synod-approved 2016 regulation.
The sources...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 10 Oct 2018
The Holy Family Path (taken by the Holy Family in their historic journey to escape the persecution of Herod, the governor of Jerusalem, at the beginning of the first century A.D.)
The Islamic Conquest Road (taken by the captain ʿAmru bin al-ʿĀṣ and contains the first Egyptian cities to convert to...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 24 Sep 2018
The inauguration was attended by leaders from all Arabic and American Christian churches in the city of Richmond. During his visit to the United States, Zakī met with many leaders, heads and patrons of Arabic and American Evangelical Churches, and civil society organizations. [ʿImmād Khalīl, al-...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 25 Sep 2018
The following are the monasteries that are not recognized by the Coptic Orthodox Church: 1) St. John the Beloved Patmos Monastery in Pennsylvania, USA ; 2) St. Makāriyyūs Monastery (also known as the Carved Monastery) in Wādī al-Rayān; 3) St. Kārās Monastery in Wādī al-Naṭrūn; 4) St. Emmanuel [...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 25 Sep 2018
The Pope delivered a speech during the meeting entitled "Kārizān bi-Malakūt Allah (Announcing the Kingdom of God,)" in which he pointed out that the priests are the ones who raise the children and bring up the youth. He said: "Some of these children choose to be consecrated in one way or another...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 28 Sep 2018
Shātīlā added that fanatic opposition to the idea of Arabism and brutal attempts of capitalism in the Arab world failed to present themselves as an alternative to the Nāṣir ’s principles. He claimed that the idea of Arab unity must be revived in order to combat the various conflicts within the...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 30 Sep 2018
It is an odd phenomenon that the Islamists introduced the phrase “Islamic awakening” into their literature in the 1970s, as though Egyptian Muslims were slumbering cavemen until the Islamists came and brought about a change. This change is exaggerated due to the interests of these Islamist groups...
Reviewed by Hilary Ayer
Translator Hilary Ayer
Date of source: 19 Sep 2018
The special nature of Minya
Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and freedoms, believes that Minya has a special nature, and there are reasons related to being a governorate of Upper Egypt and other reasons related to the governorate itself. He also stressed on...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 19 Sep 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II arrived at JFK Airport in New York with Anba David Bishop of New York & New England. The pope was received by Egypt’s Ambassador to the US, Yāsir Riḍā; Egypt’s Consul-General in New York Hishām al-Naqīb; and high-ranking Egyptian officials in New York; also Anba Serapion [...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 4 Sep 2018
A number of residents of the village of Dimshāw Hāshim gathered after Friday prayers to protest the prayer in a church-affiliated building. Four Coptic houses were raided and looted; two Copts and one of the firefighters were injured. Police arrested 38 suspects following the events. [Teresa Kamāl...
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Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 15 Sep 2018
Dr. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Rīhān, general director of archaeological studies, researches, and scientific publications at the ministry of antiquities, and the media information coordinator, said in a statement, today, that 20 artists are participating in the exhibition for the first time. The event will also...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 17 Sep 2018
In the same context, the Public Prosecutor's Office in Minya extended the detention of 19 suspects for 15 days in the investigation of the events of sabotage and robbery, which was attended by a number of Copts of the village of Dimshāw Hāshim, last August, after Friday prayers on the pretext of...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 18 Sep 2018
"We are trying to unify the Easter holiday because we are in the East, and every four years the date of the feast coincides with the Western Church automatically. We proposed that the unified date be on the third Sunday of April, and there are voices that think it should be on the second Sunday,...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 18 Sep 2018
Coptic associations in New York and a number of other nearby states have called for the reception of the president, pledging ways to transport them from their states to the headquarters of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Bishop Yūnis, Bishop of Asyut, has traveled to the United States...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 18 Sep 2018
The Pope considered that participating in the reception of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī is a kind of fulfillment of a national duty, adding that our participation is reflected positively on Egypt in general.
In response to a question about the Minya crisis, Pope Tawāḍrūs II said: "We have 27...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 10 Jul 2018
Because of directing explicit criticisms to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the novel aroused much anger among the members of the Revolutionary Command Council. But the actor Aḥmad Maẓhar interfered and called Sāmī Sharaf asking him to explain the situation to the president Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir....
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 10 Jul 2018
George Shiḥātah Qanawātī was born in Alexandria on 6 June 1905. When He obtained the baccalaureate certificate, he studied chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences, then joined the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut. After earning his Bachelor of Pharmacy, he travelled to the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Jul 2018
In his word, Anba Thomas (Bishop of al-Qūsiyyah and the Founder and Chief Visionary of the Anaphora [al-Anāfūrā] Retreat Center) said that the Egyptians, in a certain period of their history, used to discuss their daily life and their matters, dissolving their religious, cultural and cognitive...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Muslim Brotherhood are Required to Pay 5 Billion Euros in Compensation for their Burning of Churches
Date of source: 17 Aug 2018
Najīb Jibrāʾīl, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization (EUHRO), revealed that the EUHRO joined a group of international organizations in filing an international case against the Muslim Brotherhood Organization claiming a civil compensation in the amount of 5 billion Euros for...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 20 Sep 2018
Egypt has witnessed the killing of a Shiite [Shīʿī] cleric and his children by extremists during the rule of Muslim Brotherhood. This case has been known in the media as the sedition of the Shiites, and it is still considered by the courts.
Last week, the court sentenced four defendants to 14 years...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 19 Sep 2018
Anba Ibrāhīm Isḥāq delivered a speech in their presence on the status of the Church in Egypt and the relationship of the Catholic Church with the Orthodox Church and his recent visit to Toronto, thanking them for receiving him, expressing his feeling of being home as he feels in his Catholic Church...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 20 Sep 2018
Colonel Hishām Luṭfī, officer of al-Fashn police station, received a call from the residents about the fire asking him to extinguish it, before it extends inside the church.
The preliminary inspection and police investigations revealed that the fire was caused by the fall of a burning candle in the...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 13 Jul 2018
In the past, Hārūn submitted a request to the Ministry of Antiquities for listing the Khūkha Synagogue, among other synagogues, as Egyptian antiquities, but her request was refused because it is composed only of unroofed walls and columns. Later on, she submitted a request to the Ministry of...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 1 Jul 2018
The mosque is named after Aḥmad ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Sayyīd al-Rifāʿī, a descendant of Imam Aḥmad al-Rifāʿī who founded al-Rifāʿī Sufi order.
Al-Rifa'i Mosque is one of Cairo's largest mosques, extending over an area of 6500 meters. It took 40 years to build it.
Al-Rifāʿī Mosque was originally...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 1 Jul 2018
He further stressed that, through the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood regime, the June 30 Revolution saved Egypt from an imminent and inevitable civil war similar to these which occurred in all the countries of the Arab region that experienced other revolutions. [ʿAlāʾ Anas, al-Bawāba News, Jul...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Jul 2018
According to the Patriarchate’s announcement, the Pope took his decision at Murqus’s request to be discharged from his administrative responsibility and succeeded by Priest Ibrām.
It should be mentioned that Pope Tawāḍrūs II started his administrative reform by changing the Secretariat Committee...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 3 Jul 2018
With respect to the latest developments in the personal status law, Fikrī announced that the Evangelical Church has already completed its final draft, revealing that it contains clauses that ensure equality between men and women in inheritance.
Furthermore, he pointed out, from his perspective,...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 3 Jul 2018
After assuming the presidency, he started attacking any newspaper, channel or media outlet that criticized him and accusing it of spreading fake news. However, Trump himself does not hesitate to use the fake news and the false information. For instance, in one of his tweets, he attributed the high...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 2 Jul 2018
The MB Group believe that the June 30 Revolution was caused by its political and economic misperformance, when the truth is that it was primarily aimed at safeguarding the identity of the state generally accepted by the Egyptian people thousands of years ago.
The great thing about this revolution...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 11 Jul 2018
In a different context, Anba Murqus stressed that both the Pope and the Holy Synod are attacked on some websites run by persons who cannot, by any means, be considered as scholars, and that the Pope deprives any Copt who may insult the clergy from the church service. Thus, he calls for the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 11 Jul 2018
Responding to the criticism directed to the Military for its intervention in the revolution, Dr. Nu'mān explains that this action was necessary to save the country from descending into violence. In addition, this military institution still bears the responsibility for combating terror, defending...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 10 Jul 2018
According to MP Muḥammad Abū Ḥāmid, a member of the social solidarity committee of the House of Representatives, presented the draft anti-discrimination law, there are no developments or debates related to the draft law till now although it has been referred to the Parliament’s constitutional and...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Jul 2018
First, the unfairness of the 2012 presidential elections. The Muslim Brotherhood prevented the Copts from going to the voting stations; distributed electoral bribes; and used religious intimidation.
Second, the Muslim Brotherhood’s authoritarian rule, for they monopolized the positions in the state...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 30 Nov 2018
Firstly, there is a lack of understanding of the reality of the human rights situation in our country, which is clearly shown in the inaccurate evaluation of the situation in Egypt who is experiencing exceptional circumstances after the events of January 25, 2011 until now. There is also a tendency...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 20 Nov 2018
On the ecumenical relationships, Pope Tawāḍrūs stressed that the fundamentals of serving are love to each other, vocation, and to serve just like Jesus served on earth. Convening for the 6th time since its formation at the Logos Center in the Monastery of St. Bīshūy of Wādī al-Naṭrūn, the Holy...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 20 Nov 2018
On the local level, 70 percent of the fatwas are officially issued in Egypt, allowing the celebration of the birth of Muḥammad, while 30 percent prohibits it, coming mainly from Salafi currents and other ultra-conservative movements.
On the regional level, more than 75 percent prohibits the...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 13 Jul 2018
Makram stressed the importance of the prominent role of the Saint Mark Festival in identifying the outstanding talents in various fields, and she expressed her pleasure with the role of the bishopric of youth in looking after the children and youth in Egypt and preparing them well to ensure a...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 13 Jul 2018
According to al-Fajr News, MP Sūzī Nāshid, a member of the Parliament’s legislative and constitutional affairs committee, attributed this to the unawareness of some executive officials of the legislation objectives. She also said that the law is in force and that a committee has been constituted...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
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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.