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Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
Social media platforms were filled with posts mourning the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church, who passed away on Monday at the age of 88 after suffering from various illnesses during the twelve years of his papacy. Many Christian figures in Jordan and...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 5 May 2025
Date of source: 29 Apr 2025
Following the murder of a young Muslim in a mosque in the Gard region of southern France, the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, has been accused of stirring up hatred against Muslims, particularly by the left, which has protested against the minister's "double standards." The...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb mourned Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, who passed away on Monday (April 21), praising him as a man who "dedicated his life to serving humanity, advocating for the oppressed, and supporting interfaith and intercultural dialogues."
"Today, the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 27 Apr 2025
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church said extremism was no longer confined to misunderstanding of religion, adding, "We live in a complicated time marked by widening secularism, rigid ideologies, and isolation."
"We are witnessing new forms of secularist extremism that are eschewing faith...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Apr 2025
Date of source: 19 Apr 2025
Dr. Andrea Zakī, Head of the Evangelical Community in Egypt, said the call made by Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church to unify festivities was a good step for closer ties between Eastern and Western churches.
"I support this call. It was a coincidence this year that all churches around...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Apr 2025
On a Sunday morning, the Resurrection of Jesus was a new proclamation of God's vision for humanity: life, not death; hope, not despair; reconciliation, not estrangement.
In our contemporary world, groaning under wars, conflicts, and religious, intellectual, and political divisions, the world is in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Apr 2025
President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī on Sunday (April 20) congratulated Coptic Christians on the occasion of Easter.
"Coptic sons of Egypt, I offer sincerest congratulations and best wishes for the glorious Easter, praying to God Almighty to protect Egypt and its people and keep it always as a beacon...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is running the affairs of the Holy See in the Vatican, announced in a statement the death of Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church on Monday (April 21).
"At 7:35 (0535 GMT) this morning the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father. His entire life...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of Saint Mark, said, "We offer our condolences to the entire world following the death of this man who served all of humanity, Pope Francis. His 12 years on the pontifical throne in Rome were filled with work, activity...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
Palestinian minister of state for foreign affairs and expatriates, Dr. Varsen Aghabekian Shāhīn, praised Pope Francis, describing him as one of the greatest symbols of the nation who was truly committed to the cause of justice worldwide. She said, "In these difficult and unprecedented circumstances...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
Lebanese President Joseph ʿAoūn mourned the death of His Holiness Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday. He dedicated himself to peace and humanity, calling for love and confronting hate.
"This is a loss for all of humanity. He was a powerful voice for justice and peace, a champion of the poor...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
President ʿAbd el-Fattāḥ el-Sīsī has delivered a number of messages conveying the state’s vision for raising moderate and responsible individuals who are capable of making positive contributions to our society, highlighting the importance of emulating Imam al-Sayūṭī as a role model, as he made an...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 3 Apr 2025
Dr. Muḥammad Abū Hāshim, a member of the Supreme Council of Sufi Orders, said the Shāzlī order is one of the most prominent Sufi schools that have been founded on the Holy Qur’ān and the Sunna, asserting that the right Sufism is not about renouncing the world.
"The founder, Imām Abu al-Ḥasan al-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Apr 2025
Christian denominations around the world will celebrate Palm Sunday tomorrow, April 13. This day marks the seventh Sunday of Great Lent, a 55-day fasting period that concludes with the celebration of Easter Sunday on April 20, 2025.
Churches worldwide are getting ready for Hosanna Sunday, popularly...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
The former Israeli ambassador to Italy, Dror Eydar, sharply criticized Pope Francis the day after the announcement of his death, calling on the Jewish state not to attend his funeral.
Pope Francis, a central figure in the Vatican since 2013, died on Monday at the age of 88, prompting a...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
It is with infinite sadness that the Great Mosque of Paris has been informed of the death of Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church and an emblematic figure of interreligious dialogue and human brotherhood, on Easter Monday.
Shams al-Dīn Ḥāfiẓ, Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, the religious...
Reviewed by Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
Hundreds of Christian believers participated in the Palm Sunday procession in Jerusalem. The procession started from the Monastery of Bayt Fajjār in the town of Al-Tūr and passed through the streets of the town, including the road to the Church of Gethsemane, the Church of Santa Maria, and the road...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
A pastor of the Anglican Cathedral of St. George in Jerusalem said, "The Israeli occupation’s bombardment of al-Ahlī Hospital in the city of Gaza, rendering it out of service on Palm Sunday, is insulting all Christians and violates all rules of human behavior."
"During the early morning hours of...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
Israeli occupation authorities denied Christians from the West Bank access to the occupied city of Jerusalem to attend the Palm Sunday celebrations, according to the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA).
Eastern and Western churches celebrate Palm Sunday, the last Sunday before Easter and...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine strongly condemned the odious crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces as they bombed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, run by the Anglican Church in Gaza City, on Palm Sunday, one of the holiest days for Christians. The committee...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 12 Apr 2025
Many wonder about the possibility of the marriage between Christians of different denominations. In light of this, the Coptic Orthodox Church has agreed on a new set of rules regarding marriage, which aim to regulate personal status within the sect. Foremost among these rules is the requirement...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
Archpriest Mūsa Ibrāhīm, spokesperson for the Coptic Orthodox Church, has expressed his solidarity with Christians in the West Bank after the Israeli occupation prevented them from reaching Jerusalem to celebrate Palm Sunday in the city’s churches, in particular the Church of the Holy Sepulchre....
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 10 Apr 2025
On Wednesday, 9 April, Emmanuel Macron announced that France could recognize a Palestinian state "in June" at a conference it will co-chair with Saudi Arabia at the United Nations in New York, which, according to him, would also lead to the recognition of Israel by a number of countries.
"We must...
Reviewed by Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 10 Apr 2025
On April 7 and 8, Emmanuel Macron traveled to Cairo to meet his Egyptian counterpart, ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī. The visit gave the two heads of state an opportunity to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries, as well as the "unbearable situation" in the Gaza Strip.
Emmanuel Macron,...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 1 Apr 2025
Today (Tuesday) marks the anniversary of the death of Dr. Maḥmūd Ḥamdī Zaqzūq, the former Minister of Awqāf (religious endowments), who passed away on April 1, 2020.
Zaqzūq, born in the governorate of al-Daqahlīya on December 27, 1933, obtained his university degree at the Faculty of Arabic...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Apr 2025
Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Salām welcomed a South African Council of Churches delegation at the Council's headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
The delegation included Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, former General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches; Bishop...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 Apr 2025
The 2nd edition of a program on producing promising female leaders was inaugurated under the patronage of Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, Grand Imām of al-Azhar, and Dr. Salāma Dāwūd, President of al-Azhar University.
"The event tackled the issue of empowerment of women," said Dr. Muḥammad Fikrī Khiḍr, Vice-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Apr 2025
A Palestinian scholar and a former student of al-Azhar said that he felt relieved by a phone call from Grand Imām Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, who expressed support and appreciation for the struggling Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip under cruel and calamitous circumstances.
"Despite the tough...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Apr 2025
I would like to extend my congratulations on this occasion of ʿEid al-Fiṭr to all of our Muslim brothers who are celebrating in Egypt and across the world, praying to God for joy and peace in our country and for our people, as well as over the region and the rest of the world. Today, Coptic...
Reviewed by Jack Heron
Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 16 Mar 2025
As Eīd al-Fiṭr approaches, Muslims around the world are preparing to pay the Zakāt al-Fiṭr, an obligatory almsgiving that symbolizes solidarity and generosity. In Algeria, the amount of these alms for 2025 has been officially announced by the religious authorities.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs...
Reviewed by Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 6 Apr 2025
Date of source: 5 Apr 2025
Date of source: 24 Mar 2025
The former Grand Mufti of Egypt and member of the Council of Senior Scholars at Al-Azhar, Sheikh ‘Alī Gomʿa, answered a question from one of the youths: "If a Christian dies as a martyr for the country, does he go to Heaven?" Gomʿa said, "This is something that should be discussed within the...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 23 Mar 2025
Bishop Paula (Būla), the Archbishop of Tanta and its suburbs and the person responsible for personal status law within the Coptic Orthodox Church, confirmed that the new Personal Status Law for Christians has set the age of a minor to be under 21 years, instead of 18 years, as is the case in other...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 18 Mar 2025
Sāndī Girgis, a young Christian woman, is engaged in charity activities during the holy fasting month of Ramaḍān to hand out ifṭār (fast-breaking) meals she had cooked at her home in the streets of the coastal province of al-Ismāʿīlīya, where she lives, giving them to the poor and needy.
Girgis has...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Mar 2025
Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, head of the Evangelical community in Egypt, expressed "deep appreciation" for the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, and for his "pioneering role in promoting the values of tolerance and peace."
He emphasized that Dr. Ṭayyīb is a "global religious figure and a...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Mar 2025
In a beautiful display reflecting love and friendship, Christians in Syria sent a joyful message to Muslims on the occasion of ʿEīd al-Fiṭr.
Stood outside Our Lady’s Church in Damascus, a Christian choir sung a message of congratulations to Syrian Muslims to the tune of the song "The Full Moon Has...
Reviewed by Jack Heron
Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 26 Mar 2025
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Date of source: Tuesday, May 6, 2014
By: upi
LONDON, May 6 (UPI) -- Exploration company Sea Dragon Energy announced Tuesday it encountered oil while drilling into an Egyptian basin on the west side of the Gulf of Suez.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 1, 2014
By: yourmiddleeast
Sexual harassment in Egypt has reached such epidemic proportions that it has eveninfiltrated the campus of the country’s oldest secular university.
Date of source: Monday, March 31, 2014
By: UPI
Three Al-Jazeera journalists are on trial for aiding the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been deemed a terrorist organization by the interim Egyptian government.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
By: UPI.com
According to the United Nations, an estimated 99.3 percent of women in Egypt have been sexually harassed, assaulted or raped.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
By: yourmiddleeast
EGYPTIAN POLITICS Is it possible for a capitalist autocracy, a military dictatorship and authoritarian theocracy to have things in common? The answer is unequivocally "yes", writes Noureen Ramzy.
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
The new Egyptian constitution of 2014 allowed members of the National Democratic Party (NDP) — the ruling party during the era of former President Hosni Mubarak — to run in any future
Date of source: Monday, May 12, 2014
By: maltatoday
A Coptic Christian persecuted in Egypt and Libya for his religious beliefs is awarded refugee status, after the Refugee Appeals Board overturns its decision on appeal.
Date of source: Sunday, May 11, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
With the Egyptian presidential elections less than three weeks away, it is expected that both presidential candidates should be discussing their platforms and starting a debate on the direction they intend to take this troubled country.
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said he will continue to pursue “meaningful negotiations” with Ethiopia and Sudan to reso
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — Described as “Egypt’s miracle,” Al Nour Wal Amal (Light and Hope), the blind female orchestra, is feeling the economic pangs of the revolution.
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
By: AINA
A Coptic Christian man in Egypt has been arrested on complaints from local Muslims that, without a permit, he has converted his home into a church and is supposedly even holding religious rituals.
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Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — On Dec. 15, 2012, exactly 10 days after I witnessed Mohammed Morsi's supporters kill and torture their opposition in front of the presidential palace as the police and military watched silently, the Muslim Brotherhood's constitution was put to referendum.
Date of source: Monday, May 19, 2014
By: New Republic
Given the Brotherhood's persistent and dangerous delusion, the existential struggle that has defined Egyptian politics since Morsi's
removal will likely worsen.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
By: Stratfor
Ongoing criminal court proceedings against Sinai-based terror group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis revealed
intentions to fire Katyusha rockets at U.S.-owned ships navigating the Suez Canal, MENA reported May
13.
Date of source: Monday, May 12, 2014
By: Stratfor
An influential Egypt-born cleric in Qatar, Yusef al-Qaradawi, on May 12 said that Egyptians should
boycott the upcoming presidential election, saying that Gen.
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Date of source: Monday, May 12, 2014
By: Stratfor
Unidentified gunmen set Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's campaign headquarters on fire in the Sharqia
governorate on May 12, MENA reported.
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Date of source: Friday, May 9, 2014
By: Stratfor
Egypt, like many of its Arab neighbors, has long relied on subsidies to ward off social instability. The
large subsidy regime has become increasingly untenable as Egypt nears insolvency, and this year
Date of source: Tuesday, May 6, 2014
By: Policy Alert
Piping Israeli gas to liquefaction plants in Egypt is the most commercially logical option but remains politically risky.
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Date of source: Thursday, May 1, 2014
By: PolicyWatch 2246
On April 25, 2014, Eric Trager, Haroon Ullah, and Vish Sakthivel addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Trager is the
Wagner Fellow at the Institute. Ullah is a member of the U.S. secretary of state's Policy Planning Staff, where his portfolios include
Date of source: Wednesday, April 30, 2014
By: Policy Alert
Given the important strategic interests at stake and the unlikelihood of changing Cairo's short-term behavior, Secretary Kerry should be
prepared to invoke his national security waiver to keep military aid flowing.
Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 2014
By: terrorismanalysts
In November 2008, Egyptian authorities broke up what they said was a Hezbollah network plotting attacks in
Egypt. While some of the charges appear to have been exaggerated, and it is clear that not all those arrested were
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
By: pewglobal
Frustration Mounts as Confidence in Democracy Wanes
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Date of source: Saturday, April 26, 2014
By: thestar
It is unimaginable that Khaled Al-Qazzaz has been languishing in prison for more than nine months now and still has not been charged with any crime.
Date of source: Sunday, May 25, 2014
By: jpost
The hopeful era of the revolution is dead. In May 2012, Muslim Brotherhood member Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first democratically elected president.
Date of source: Thursday, April 3, 2014
By: fikraforum
In the wake of the so-called “Arab Spring,” the Copts and the Christians of the Middle East have lost the most. For Christians, the revolutionary uprisings became a nightmare due to the emergence of Islamist forces hostile to democracy.
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
By: freedomhouse
In response to Egyptian security forces’ raid on the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights in Alexandria, Freedom House issued the following statement:......
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Date of source: Thursday, April 24, 2014
By: weekly.ahram
For many Copts the worst is over, but there is little guarantee that the best is yet to come.
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Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2014
By: foreignaffairs
Over the last few weeks, the Egyptian presidential race has packed in a lifetime of political drama -- and then some.
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Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2014
By: eurasiareview
With the majority of today’s conflicts taking place in Muslim countries or involving Muslim combatants, aid agencies are operating – arguably more than ever before – in situations where Islamic norms govern the terrain in which they work.
Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2014
By: CNN
(CNN) -- Armed Sinai tribesman killed the head of an al Qaeda-inspired terror group on Friday, according to Egypt's state-run news agency.
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Date of source: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
By: english.ahram
Pope Tawadros II says Coptic Church has no political role in Egypt; ouster of Mohamed Morsi reflected 'pulse of the street'
Date of source: Monday, May 19, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
ews on the Palestinian reconciliation front has taken a positive turn.
Date of source: Thursday, May 1, 2014
By: AFP
Cairo (AFP) - Egypt's general prosecutor on Thursday referred 102 alleged Islamists for trial over attacks on Coptic Christian churches and properties in the central province of Minya last August, judicial sources said.
Date of source: Thursday, March 13, 2014
By: fikraforum
Those who follow Egypt’s affairs will notice that most of those who have announced their candidacy for president are, so far, former military commanders.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 20, 2014
By: foreignaffairs
Since the middle of the twentieth century, the Middle East has seen regional hegemons come and go. The 1950s and 1960s were Egypt’s era: Cairo was the Arab World’s capital and the home of its charismatic postcolonial leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2014
By: fikraforum
During the political upheaval in Egypt in June and July 2013, the Nour Party, widely considered Egypt’s largest Salafi party, supported the removal of former president Muhammad Morsi from power.
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
The Libyan Revolutionaries Operations Room accused unnamed regional states of supporting retired Gen. Khalifa Hifter.
Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2014
By: foreignaffairs
Many of the iconic images from Egypt's revolution depict the Egyptian military supporting the uprising in Tahrir Square.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 23, 2014
By: freedomhouse
In response to the United States’ announcement that it cannot certify that the Egyptian government is taking steps to support a democratic transition and thus has not released FY 2014 assistance funds, Freedom House released the following statement:......
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
By: aina
A Coptic Christian man in Egypt has been arrested on complaints from local Muslims that, without a permit, he has converted his home into a church and is supposedly even holding religious rituals.
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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.