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Date of source: 13 Oct 2021
Īzīs said that since last May she has faced systemic bullying at the hands of the head of the health unit in Kafr ʿAṭā Allāh, because of her being a Muslim that does not wear the ḥijāb. The head of the unit would threaten her saying, “What is the difference between you and any Christian; being like...
Reviewed by Luke Noble
Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 24 Apr 2021
Ambassador Bassām Rāḍī, the official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic, said that the President welcomed His Highness, congratulating him on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, stressing the appreciation of Egypt's leadership and people to the UAE, in light of the historical ties...
Reviewed by Luke Noble
Translator Luke Noble
Seven Years of Benefits to People with Disabilities … Countless Achievements under President al-Sīsī
Date of source: 5 Dec 2021
The world celebrates the International Day of Persons with disabilities every year on December 3rd, a day designated by the United Nations since 1992 to raise awareness and promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society.
On this occasion, President al-Sīsī...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 26 Jun 2021
This ruling comes at a time when Egypt and Arab societies are facing the dangerous phenomenon of the spread of religious websites, extremists’ channels with non-specialist preachers, and the use of social media to promote extremist ideologies that contradict Islamic Sharia.
There is still no...
Reviewed by Frederick Boase
Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 12 Jul 2021
The Mufti talked about Egypt’s experience in coexistence and national unity. He stressed the strength of the Egyptian people in the face of the attempts of terrorist groups to spread violence and sectarian conflict.
The Mufti also mentioned that Dār al-Iftāʾ conducted a descriptive study analysing...
Reviewed by Frederick Boase
Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 15 Apr 2021
Rome granted Patrick honorary citizenship to secure his release, and these calls for his release have been joined by dozens of human rights organisations.
A Parliamentarian collected 200,000 signatures asking the government to grant him citizenship, to which the Senate voted unanimously to urge the...
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Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 18 Jul 2021
The court said: “The businesses’ policies that forbid workers from wearing any clothes that express political, philosophical or religious affiliation at work does not constitute direct discrimination, as long as it is applied equally to all dress and religious symbols.”
Civil society organisations...
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Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 3 May 2021
What does legalisation or licencing of churches mean?
The restrictive legislative environment for church building has given rise to large numbers of churches built hundreds of years ago, whose establishment was never sanctioned by a decree from any government at the time.
The re-legalising the...
Reviewed by Frederick Boase
Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 22 Jul 2021
Al-Azhar Observatory believes that this visit reflects the high Canadian political interest in the conditions and issues of Muslims in Canada, in addition to the extent of the influence of Muslims there on society and their positive integration.
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Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 24 Jul 2021
A number of photographers attribute the reason for that decline to the continuous efforts of the Police, recent prison sentences for harassers, increased societal awareness, and the heavy security presence in the streets during special occasions.
One photographer said that he had noticed girls...
Reviewed by Frederick Boase
Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 30 Dec 2021
Asking Ahmed Fayad...
Q. How did your story begin and how is the current situation of your business life?
A: My father suffered a lot in his life. He was not poor but was also not at all rich. He had to work to pay my education costs during my studies. He worked in different jobs and then he...
Date of source: 18 Sep 2021
The visit aims to introduce the African delegation to the Egyptian experience of the Egyptian Family House [Bayt al-ʿĀʾila], as well as the role played by al-Azhar al-Sharif in Egypt in constructive dialogue and cooperation with the Egyptian Church for the sake of coexistence.
Dr. Muḥammad Abū Zayd...
Reviewed by Frederick Boase
Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 30 Dec 2021
Life in Egypt from his perspective…
C.S.: My family belonged to the middle-lower class in Mexico. We were living at the east coast of the country. My family was always very traditional and religious. That is why all the time I rejected the fact that I could be gay. My family was very homophobic....
Date of source: 7 Oct 2021
In his speech at the international meeting for peace “Peoples as Brothers” promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio, he affirmed that al-Azhar rejects the theory of the clash of civilisations and calls for the establishment of real peace among human beings.
al-Ḍuwaynī explained that al-Azhar al-...
Reviewed by Frederick Boase
Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 9 Nov 2021
The Public Prosecution also stated that the doctor’s wife participated with him in committing the crimes; her presence with him through his meeting with some of the victims, reassured them about the accused and methods of treatment, thus enabling him to be alone with them.
The prosecution indicated...
Reviewed by Frederick Boase
Translator Frederick Boase
Date of source: 15 Aug 2021
In that context, the archeologist Dr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Rayḥān, General Director of Archeological Research, Studies, and Scientific Publishing in South Sinai at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, praised this step as it encourages Europeans to visit Egypt and follow the path of Jesus.
The Holy...
Reviewed by Rieke Mülstegen
Translator Rieke Mülstegen
Date of source: 3 Aug 2021
Pope Shinūda was born on August 3, 1923, in the village of Salām in Asyūṭ Governorate under the name Naẓīr Jayyid Rūfāʾīl. He graduated from the faculty of Arts at the University of Fuʾād I (now Cairo University) in 1947. He then enrolled at the clerical college affiliated with the Coptic Orthodox...
Reviewed by Rieke Mülstegen
Translator Rieke Mülstegen
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Rome Bids Farewell to Ambassador Hishām Badr after the End of his Term
Date of source: 27 Sep 2021
During the ceremony, Fr. Barnābā expressed the sincere appreciation of the Church and its members in Rome and its suburbs for the sustained and dedicated efforts exerted by Ambassador Hishām Badr over four years. He pointed out that the Egyptian Ambassador maintained constant contact with His...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 27 Sep 2021
The event was held at the invitation of Bonnie Cromby, mayor of Mississauga in the Greater Toronto Area, and in the presence of Ambassador Aḥmad Abu Zayd, Egypt's ambassador to Canada, Ḥussām Muḥarram, Consul General of Egypt in Montreal, MP Shirīf Sabaʿāwī, representatives of the government of the...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 22 Aug 2021
Pope Tawāḍrūs II said in a video: “The Logos Youth Forum at the Papal headquarters of the Monastery of Saint Bīshūy in Wādī al-Natrūn, will be attended by our youth in our churches and parishes along the valley in Upper Egypt, the Delta, Sinai, and from Cairo and Alexandria.
He added: “We are...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 4 Aug 2021
That was the first meeting of its kind between the President of the Evangelical Community in Egypt and the Palestinian Authority.
Al-Habbāsh emphasized the importance of the solidarity provided by the Egyptian State and its key role in supporting the Palestinian cause and the initiative of...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 2 Aug 2021
He added during his speech at the Sixth World Fatwā Conference, which is held over two days under the auspices of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī , that Islamic scholars have explained that fatwā changes with the change of time and place. He pointed out that the scientific, political and economic...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 1 Aug 2021
In a statement, the Coptic Orthodox Church said: “We trust that their precious sacrifice and blood will not be in vain. All sacrifice and efforts, made by the armed forces, guarantee Egypt’s security, progress and prosperity. May the Lord have mercy on the souls of the martyrs, console the hearts...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 3 Aug 2021
Grand Muftī Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām said that “Salām Center for Extremism Studies” is a research and academic center operating under the General Secretariat for Fatwā Authorities Worldwide and the Egyptian Dār al-Iftāʾ. It is concerned with studying, analyzing and addressing the phenomenon of extremism...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 14 Aug 2021
Thinker Ṣafwat Ḥātim described the current events as “a new humiliating defeat” for Washington which will bring “complete chaos” to the entire MENA region.
Professor of Law and International Arbitrator Saʿīd al-Shaykh agreed that the ongoing events represent “a new defeat for the U.S policy in...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 10 Aug 2021
Dr. Mukhtār Jumaʿa and Rev. Dr. Andria Zakī gave the opening speech for the conference, where they discussed “Jurisprudence, Interpretation and Supporting Coexistence” in the first session.
In its second session, the conference will also discuss “coexistence between theory and practice” by...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 1 Aug 2021
The agreement was signed by Major-General Ismāʿīl al-Fār, Head of the Central Administration for Projects and Youth Training, and Engineer Rīm Sāmī Saʿad, the Chair of the Executive Committee of EGYCOPT. The agreement stipulated that the Ministry of Youth and Sports shall nominate young people...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 28 Oct 2021
The archbishop affirmed that these sessions witnessed the participation of representatives of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Church, the Armenian Church and the Syriac Church. Over the course of three days, the churches discussed the history of the Ecumenical Councils, most notably the...
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Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 16 Aug 2021
Naʿīm added that the Taliban took control over all Afghan cities and that there was no secret agreement to enter the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The goal of the negotiations between Taliban and the US, in Doha, according to Naʿīm was to find a peaceful solution but as the foreign forces did not commit...
Reviewed by Rieke Mülstegen
Translator Rieke Mülstegen
Date of source: 29 Oct 2021
The governorates in which these recent mosques have been opened included:
- al-Sharqiyya
- al-Buḥayra
- al-Qalyūbiyya
- al-Minyā
- al-Minūfiyya
- Aswān
Reviewed by Luke Noble
Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 14 Nov 2021
During his interview on the “Extra News” channel, with journalist Aḥmad al-Ṭāhirī, the pope added, “If we look at everyone who has committed a terrorist act in the world, we will find that there is a lack in education and that they never obtained love from their family, which caused the emergence...
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Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 15 Nov 2021
Who is Zakariyā Buṭrus?
Buṭrus was a Coptic Orthodox priest born in 1934. He studied at the Faculty of Arts and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in History, worked as a priest in Australia in 1922, then returned to Egypt to later work in Brighton, England.
World magazine awarded him the Daniel of the...
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Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 15 Nov 2021
The movement said in a statement today, signed by the founder and official of the movement, Engineer Nādir Ṣubḥī Sulaymān, “We declare and record our official objection and condemnation of what has been issued against our Muslim brothers and sisters, for the tampering of religions and insulting the...
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Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 15 Nov 2021
During a live broadcast of a program entitled “99 Minutes”, dedicated to dialogue with young people via the Coptic Media Center page of the Orthodox Church on Facebook, His Holiness said in response to a question directed at him: “ Some weak souls in the Orthodox Church and the Monastic Committee...
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Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 15 Nov 2021
This protocol coordinates the participation of Egyptian communities abroad to support the activities of the national project “A Dignified Life” for the development of Egyptian rural villages. This project is launched by President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī , aiming to improve the standard of living for...
Reviewed by Luke Noble
Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 3 Jun 2021
The Church said in its statement issued by spokesman Fr. Mūsā Ibrāhīm: “The Coptic Church congratulates the President on this account affirming that it well-deserved honor, reaping the fruit of his diligent work during the past years. The President guided the country towards comprhensive progress...
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Translator Rieke Mülstegen
Date of source: 12 Jun 2021
The construction of the Church of the Two Saints was completed in 1971; the first mass was held on 21 July of the same year under the direction of Bishop Maximus, Metropolitan of al-Qalyūbiyya, and in the presence of Archbishop Bīshūy Kāmil.
It was Archbishop Bīshūy Kāmil's idea to establish the...
Reviewed by Rieke Mülstegen
Translator Rieke Mülstegen
Date of source: 15 Nov 2021
ʿAyād said that this visit comes to complete his meeting and contacting with all the nation’s partners, helping to strengthen the national Egyptian sentiment, deepen the bond between the two parts of the nations, Muslims, and Christians, and to send a message to those trying to sow lies of division...
Reviewed by Luke Noble
Translator Luke Noble
Date of source: 16 Dec 2021
UNHCR pointed that Egypt has recently started to implement a digital transformation strategy which aims to ensure that the process and content of learning is relevant to the challenges of the 21st century, for all children and youth residing in the country. UNHCR also stated that refugees included...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
Date of source: 24 Sep 2021
The Grand Imam Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, Shaykh of al-Azhar, led together with Pope Francis of Vatican the humanitarian rapprochement and together they signed the "Document of Human Fraternity", which is the most important document in the history of the relationship between al-Azhar al-Sharīf and the...
Reviewed by Engy Rashdan
Translator Engy Rashdan
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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.