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Date of source: 14 Dec 2022
On the evening of 14 December, on the sidelines of his weekly Wednesday meeting, Pope Tawāḍrūs inaugurated an exhibition of the Bible, organized by the Bible House of Egypt for one day at the Cathedral of St. Mark in ʿAbbāsiyya.
The Pope commended the Bible House's important role in disseminating...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Dec 2022
Bishop Bākhūm stated that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī’s participation in Christmas celebrations has confirmed that he is the president for all Egyptians from all sects and religions. He also confirmed that the Catholic, Anglican, Syrian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox denominations celebrate...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 May 2023
The joint committee between the Muslim Council of Elders and the Vatican’s dicastery for interreligious dialogue held its first meeting in Bahrain on Wednesday (May 24, 2023). It discussed the role of religious leaders in facing contemporary global challenges and promoting Islamic-Christian...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 5 Nov 2022
Abrām Emīl of the Alexandria Patriarchate said that St. Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria witnessed the start of the revival of Saint Mark the Apostle which coincides with the presentation of the relic of St. Mark’s head and the consecration of St. Mark’s Cathedral on Bābah 30 (note: Bābah is a month...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 23 Nov 2022
Bishop Sīdārūs added in a statement: “On my part, I strongly rebuked him and he will be disciplined by the church for his statements. As His Holiness Pope Shenūda III has said previously, Protestant marriage is not fornication and is a recognized marriage in terms of public declaration and social...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 8 Dec 2022
The meeting was attended by Dr.ʿIyād Naẓīr, Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy and Editor-in-Chief of Al-Azhar Magazine, Dr. Muḥammed Suleymān, Head of the Communication Sector at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Dr. Shaimāʾ al-Demerdāsh, director of a heritage revitalization project...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 25 Nov 2022
Beyond the important 2014 constitutional provisions (e.g. Article 3, Article 244) that were granted during the reign of Pope Tawāḍrūs, another result was that the Copts emerged from the 2015 Parliament elections with 38 seats. With the constitutional amendments that took place in 2019, the...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 25 Nov 2022
The Mass prayer was presided over by Pope Theodoros II, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and Africa, in the presence of the Deputy Patriarch Nicosmos, the Greek Ambassador to Egypt, Nicholas Gary Leides, and the Greek Consulate in Alexandria, Despina Khasiogro, as well as other...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 25 Nov 2022
According to the press statement of St. Catherine's Cathedral in Alexandria, the celebration included a number of hymns and prayers from the church's choir. Guests included important representatives from the Coptic Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 25 Nov 2022
This seminar was primarily an attempt by the Pope to convey his view of community service that doesn’t differentiate between Christians and Muslims in Egypt. In addition, the Pope called on churchmen to support the state's efforts in development projects.
In line with this vision, the Pope visited...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 25 Nov 2022
The researchers said that a shift to a culture of peace, non-violence, and tolerance requires a collaborative system that strives to identify and study obstacles and develop realistic solutions that can be implemented on the ground. Dr. Ahmed Zayed, director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, proposed...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 25 Nov 2022
The report stated that the Egyptian legislators sought to issue Law No. 10 of 2021 to amend some provisions of the Penal Code related to female circumcision. The amendments included the deletion of any reference to the use of a medical justification, intensification of the penalties, and...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 4 Nov 2022
Speaking about his book, Pope Tawāḍrūs said that it deals with an important part of Egyptian history, and added that history is life, as it is the story of humanity, so it must be preserved. He added that the name “man” (al-insān) came because he enjoys the virtue of forgetting, as he can forget...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 4 Nov 2022
This question has passed through several historical stages, beginning with the personal status laws of 1938, then the issuance of Law No. 462 in 1955 abolishing the religious councils and referring their decisions to the civil courts, followed by Pope Kyrollos VI’s memorandum in 1962, the two...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 31 Oct 2022
Dr. Muhammad al-Ḍuwaynī, Undersecretary of Al-Azhar, said that the dialogue process during the era of the Grand Imam Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib showed the Islamic vision of interfaith dialogue and confirmed the ability of Islam through its principles and tolerance for coexistence and dialogue with other...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 18 Oct 2022
In his speech, Dr. Mukhtār Gumaʿa, the Minister of Religious Endowments in Egypt, emphasized that there can neither be compulsion in religion nor violence based on religious beliefs and that the freedom of belief requires the freedom to perform religious rituals.
“There can be no development...
Reviewed by DAB Editorial Staff
Translator DAB Editorial Staff
Date of source: 16 Nov 2022
On Thursday, November 10, 2022, King Abdullah II visited the Vatican and met with His Holiness Pope Francis, who leads the largest church in the world with nearly 1.3 billion Catholics.
King Abdullah’s meeting with the Pope focused on the need to maintain interfaith dialogue, to promote coexistence...
Reviewed by DAB Editorial Staff
Translator DAB Editorial Staff
Date of source: 16 Nov 2022
The Supreme Council of Muslims in Germany (SCMG) organized a ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding with the International Islamic Fiqh (jurisprudence) Academy (IIFA), which is affiliated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. This partnership is considered as a major leap in the...
Reviewed by DAB Editorial Staff
Translator DAB Editorial Staff
Date of source: 16 Oct 2022
When we go back to the origins of the emergence of personal status laws in Arab countries, we find that they developed gradually and in stages until they reached their current shape. We can also note that these laws are similar in most of their articles pertaining to marriage and related matters...
Reviewed by DAB Editorial Staff
Translator DAB Editorial Staff
Date of source: 4 Nov 2022
He continued: “In the small booklet entitled Church Education, His Holiness addressed the importance of the teacher, the curriculum, the learner, help, history, the library, and enlightenment. His Holiness stated that the teacher must be a reader, that is, someone who educates himself through all...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 16 Nov 2022
The video currently circulating teems with ignorance, absence of wisdom and a lack of awareness of the fundamentals of social values which prevail around the world and throughout human history, regarding the correct understanding of marriage as that between male and female.
The priest, who lacks...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 21 Nov 2022
Pope Tawāḍrūs arrived at the monastery alone and was greeted by dozens of monks and proceeded directly to the church altar to offer a prayer of thanks. The monastery’s website did not share any other clips of the Patriarch's session with the monks or further details.The Monastery of St. Macarius...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 2 Nov 2022
Major General Aḥmad al-Jaʿlī explained his interest in the study of history, despite being a national security officer, and talked about the content of his thesis, which revolved around the personality of His Holiness Pope Shinūda III.
The thesis includes five main chapters, in addition to an...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 21 Nov 2022
In his speech, Dr. Andrea Zakī said: “The ‘Love Never Fails’ team is a living model of coexistence in society, and we thank God that Egypt is rich in love and has the resilience to absorb all shocks and challenges in order to maintain peace and community cohesion.”
For his part, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyād,...
Reviewed by Sara ABDEL-HAMID
Translator Sara ABDEL-HAMID
Date of source: 5 Apr 2022
On Monday, 5 April 2022, a Kuwaiti court acquitted Muhammad Al-ʿAjmī , a well-known activist on social media platforms, known as Abū ʿAsam, of a religion defamation charge, as announced via a tweet by the Kuwaiti online media source, The Council.
Before releasing him on a 500 dinar bail ($1,650) in...
Reviewed by DAB Editorial Staff
Translator DAB Editorial Staff
Date of source: 3 Nov 2022
In a speech for the National Initiative for Smart Green Projects conference on November 3rd, 2022, she expressed her sincere thanks to Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafā Madbūlī, for his keenness to include women's projects within the national initiative. She pointed out that the inclusion of women's...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 3 Nov 2022
The Coptic Church and the Anglican Communion have good relations at the level of theological dialogue, as two agreements have been signed: the first on the nature of Christ (2014) and the second on the Holy Spirit (2017), which were signed at that time by the head of the Dialogue Committee for the...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 4 Nov 2022
Grand Imam al-Ṭayyib will meet at the beginning of the second day with King Ḥamad bin ʿĪsa Āl Khalīfa of Bahrain, and Pope Francis to go together to the Martyr’s Square in Manama to plant a palm tree as an expression of friendship and human brotherhood and in honor of the martyrs. Then, the King of...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 4 Nov 2022
On the first day of the forum, the participants discussed the importance of dialogue between religions. Sheikh Abdul Raḥman bin Muḥammad Āl Khalīfa, the president of the High Council of Islamic Affairs in Bahrain, welcomed the participation of the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, noting...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 6 Nov 2022
On Sunday 6 November 2022, His Majesty King Abdullah II received the annual report on the conditions of the Sharīʿa courts and their work progress during 2021.
During his meeting with Chief Justice Sheikh Abdul-Ḥāfiẓ al-Rabta, and the Head of the Sharīʿa Judicial Council, Judge Kamāl Al-Smadī, the...
Reviewed by DAB Editorial Staff
Translator DAB Editorial Staff
Date of source: 3 Nov 2022
According to the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Christmas fast is one of the lesser fasts, in which it is allowed to eat fish as a kind of concession in addition to vegetarian food. The church chose the fish for several reasons because of its rich symbolism in Christians history (e.g. it was a sign...
Reviewed by Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Translator Shady Saleh El-Sherif
Date of source: 12 Mar 2022
His ordination as Patriarch
After the death of Patriarch Gabriel I, Anbā Cosmas [Quzmān] III was ordained as Patriarch on 28th February 920 CE.
His crisis with the Ethiopian Church
After the ordination of Pope Cosmas as Patriarch, there were controversies between the Coptic Church and the...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 9 Aug 2022
By examining the gender inequality that women face in Egypt according to the standard international estimates and indicators, we find that Egypt ranks at the bottom in the Global Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum for 2022, in which Egypt participates annually. Egypt was classified as one...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 10 Aug 2022
In its statement on the case of the murder of the student Salmā Bahjat in al-Sharqiyya governorate, the Public Prosecution added, “We warn against this unjustified media rush to delve into the details of the incident and to analyze the personality of the victim and the accused, and the motives for...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 18 Aug 2022
Ṭāyiʿ said that he was interested in this analytical study for the following reasons:-
First, the need to represent the role of religious institutions in the past 20 years, especially during the two revolutions of January 25, 2011, and June 30, 2013, that changed the course of events in Egypt and...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi, Sara ABDEL-HAMID
Translator Salma AlHafi, Sara ABDEL-HAMID
Date of source: 5 Jul 2022
Fr. Dr. Andrea Zakī, head of the Evangelical community, said that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī is playing an unprecedented role in the new republic; a state that is built on the foundations of law, equality and citizenship. Zakī added that the new capital has an integrated political and...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 5 Aug 2022
How accurate is it to say that the media attacks on Al-Azhar are "systematic" or "deliberate"?
Nathan Brown, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, told BBC News Arabic that any "attack" on al-Azhar in the Egyptian media "is symbolic because the...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 7 Nov 2022
The Covenant of ʿUmar is a 9th-century document prohibiting church building, the rebuilding of destroyed churches, and displaying a cross on churches. Historically, the text has been attributed to the second Rashidun Caliph ‘Umar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (born around 583/584 – 644 CE). This so-called...
Date of source: 15 Oct 2022
Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān: This verse cannot be abrogated though some people, Muslims and non-Muslims, would love to say that it is abrogated. The bad news for them is that it cannot be abrogated because there is a kind of lock placed at the end of the verse.
Here is the verse from my translation of the...
Date of source: 7 Nov 2022
Judge ʿĀdil Mājid, at the time Vice President of the Court of Cassation in Egypt, Judge at the Criminal Chamber, Honorary Professor of Law at Durham University (UK), Legal Advisor to the Arab League of States, refers to two important documents: the Azhar Document on the Future of Egypt of 21 June...
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Date of source: Friday, October 2, 2015
By: PressTV
Salah al-Bassoussy, 50, another member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has died in police custody due to an unattended medical condition, Press TV reports.
Date of source: Friday, October 2, 2015
By: NewEurope
Two women in Egypt have been sentenced to six months in jail for inciting debauchery. “It is a battle of who is the representative of real Islam,” Dalia Abd El-Hameed, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a human rights group, told NPR.
Date of source: Friday, October 2, 2015
By: Columbia Journalism Review
Greste visited New York this week to lobby leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly to push Egypt to take action.
Date of source: Saturday, October 3, 2015
By: Egypt Independent
Police in Beheira arrested five supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi during a march organized by supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
By: Middle East Eye
President al-Sisi welcomes a visit to the UK but in July 44 British MPs signed a motion opposed to this.
Date of source: Saturday, October 3, 2015
By: AhramOnline
Egypt is among 37 countries in the UN System that still enforce the death penalty.
Date of source: Sunday, October 4, 2015
By: Belfast Telegraph
Ibrahim Halawa was 17 when he was detained while taking refuge in a mosque near Cairo's Ramses Square as the Muslim Brotherhood held a "day of rage" over the removal of their elected president Mohamed Morsi.
Date of source: Monday, October 5, 2015
By: The Chicago Monitor
Jarron McAllister writes "Muslim women across the world are often stereotyped as victims and are frequently targets of mainstream feminist and human rights campaigns.
Date of source: Thursday, September 24, 2015
By: Critique Echo Newspaper
Dr. Ibrahim Yousuf Sillah is a Sierra Leonean academician resident in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 23, 2015
By: Frontpage Magazine
Raymond Ibrahim "Not only is the Islamic State (IS) persecuting Christians but so are the U.S.-supported “rebel” forces, which the Obama administration assures are “moderate.”"
Date of source: Wednesday, September 23, 2015
By: American Thinker
This article claims: "Islam and democracy are incompatible and Sharia Law is particularly toxic to our way of life and human rights and freedom."
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: Centre on Religion & Geopolitics (Tony Blair Foundation)
The report concludes "the ideology of jihadi movements must be countered to undermine the threat. Its combination of theology and political objectives needs to be uprooted through rigorous scrutiny, and sustained intellectual confrontation.
Date of source: Friday, October 2, 2015
By: Qantara.de
Around 180 American volunteers have traveled to areas bordering the Islamic state to fight the Islamic state, many did so for religious reasons.
Cornelis Hulsman:American Christians fighting the Islamic state? This brings the risk of further escalation involving religious motives.
Date of source: Monday, October 5, 2015
By: Egypt Independent
Egypt Independent provided a nice but brief overview of the Copts in past Egyptian parliaments. "Today’s Constitution gives Copts a chance to return to the political arena within a quota, which some welcomed and others considered contradictory to the principle of equal citizenship."
Date of source: Monday, October 5, 2015
By: Reuters
Progress in governance across Africa has stalled since 2011, with deteriorating safety and lack of economic opportunity overshadowing any gains made on the human rights front especially in resource-rich nations, a survey said on Monday.
Date of source: Monday, October 5, 2015
By: BBC News
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: CrossMap
What in a normal setting is an everyday land dispute can quickly turn into a full-blown sectarian flashpoint with adverse effects on the wider community, when one side of the feud happens to belong to the wrong religion.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: Voice of America (VOA)
The International Association of Press Clubs gave its Freedom of Speech Award to Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: Open Democracy
Blogger and activist Mina Fayek writes "Cognitive dissonance is defined as a state of contradiction or inconsistency between ones beliefs and actions. Recently, this term has aptly described the state of Egypt's officials."Fayek gives several examples:
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: Middle East Monitor
Egyptian media has reacted furiously to news that Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the head of the Global Union for Muslim Scholar, met with the Saudi ambassador to Qatar. Reuters reported in June that "the Saudi King Salman is looking to form a new Sunni bloc to face Iran and Daesh, noting tha
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: AlBawaba News
"The month of September witnessed the occurrence of 89 protests carried out by various political groups, as well as 20 terrorist operations across Egypt, according to a r
Date of source: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
By: New York Times
Last year, Egypt "took the extraordinary step of razing more than 3,000 homes on its side of the border to create a buffer zone that would seal off access to the tunnels, creating a
Date of source: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
By: AsiaNews.it
For Fr Greiche, spokesman for the Catholic Church, the government has taken significant steps that are starting to spread to the population.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
By: Daily News Egypt
Coptic activist Mina Ibrahim describes the terrible tragedy that happened at Maspero on October 9, 2012, resulting in over 25 Coptic deaths and the need to remember them.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: Daily News Egypt
Mina Ibrahim quoted Pope Tawadros as saying "It is an abnormal situation for a Copt to join an Islamist Party. Religious belonging in our life has a great, inclusive meaning in man’s life.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
By: Daily News Egypt
Mina Ibrahim quoted Pope Tawadros as saying "It is an abnormal situation for a Copt to join an Islamist Party. Religious belonging in our life has a great, inclusive meaning in man’s life.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
By: Middle East Monitor
Egyptian Islamist organisation Jamaa Islamiyah said on Tuesday that it would not target Copts for taking part in the country’s parliamentary elections, and that it will not ally with Al-Nour Party in Upper Egypt,
Date of source: Friday, October 9, 2015
By: The Tennessean
The leader of the Coptic, or Egyptian, Christian Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II visited Nashville Friday night and will stay Saturday, marking the first such papal visit since 2000.
Date of source: Friday, October 9, 2015
By: Your Middle East
Date of source: Friday, October 9, 2015
By: The Atlantic
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2015
By: The Cairo Review of Global Affairs (AUC)
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2015
By: Christianity Today
Two Egyptian Muslims have been denied protection visas by Australia – because a tribunal has ruled their conversion to Christianity wasn't genuine.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
By: Voice of America (VOA)
Excerpts: Some journalists remain imprisoned, according to the Egyptian Journalist Syndicate, and the president’s decision to release some jailed reporters doesn’t go far enough to prevent further erosion of freedom of expression in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2015
By: European Parliament Press Service
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2015
By: Egypt Independent
Former Vice-President of the Republic [briefly in 2013] and former Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei condemned the detention of activists in Egyptian prisons through his Twitter account.
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2015
By: The Cairo Post (Youm 7)
The decision was issued by the High Elections Committee (HEC,) which approved embassies’ requests. The HEC will submit the authorizations to the embassies by the next week.
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2015
By: Al Monitor
Ever since Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took office on June 8, 2014, US-Egyptian relations have been deteriorating.
Date of source: Saturday, October 10, 2015
By: Daily News Egypt
Mina Ibrahim writes "A member of the party’s Presidential Council, Salah Abed El-Maksood, told Daily News Egypt on Saturday that Al-Nour Party is completely different from Al-Da’wa Al-Salafia (Salafist Call). “Al-Nour is a political party but Al-Da’wa is a religious movement.
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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.