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Date of source: 23 Apr 2019
“So what I believe is the United States gives billions of dollars in military aid to Israel. What I believe is not radical. I just believe that the United States should deal with the Middle East on a level playing field basis. In other words, the goal must be to try to bring people together and not...
Reviewed by Basant Samhout
Translator Basant Samhout
Date of source: 23 Apr 2019
The newspaper added that Israel is “Emboldened by Donald Trump’s decision in 2017 to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, both at the expense of Palestinian claims to a capital in the eastern parts of the city and in contravention of scores of UN resolutions, Netanyahu made campaign...
Reviewed by Basant Samhout
Translator Basant Samhout
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
The Revolutionary Forces released a joint statement suspending negotiations with the Military Council and continuing the sit-in.
The forces said, “from now on our confrontation will be with the military junta, and the transitional authority will make the announcement at a news conference a few...
Reviewed by Basant Samhout
Translator Basant Samhout
Date of source: 6 Feb 2019
Dirk Neven: For me, freedom is rooted in my belief. Christ frees me. I used to be a Marxist during my university days, but eventually I came to the conviction, that Christianity is my way of life.
Jos de Heer: I remember back in High School, we once had a discussion on how an ideal or just society...
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
The Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib met today with the Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz during his visit to Cairo.
al-Ṭayyib welcomed the Polish Foreign Minister and his delegation. He also emphasized that al-Azhar’s main mission is the spread of peace all over the world and...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Feb 2019
The first fifteen to twenty minutes of the meeting were not recorded. Father Lazarus had come down from his cave in the mountains to our guesthouse adjacent to the monastery. This was because Cornelis Hulsman was having a thrombosis leg and was told by his medical doctor to take rest and certainly...
Date of source: 16 Apr 2019
The Presidency of The Protestant Churches of Egypt, headed by Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, expresses its deep sorrow on the burning of the historic tower of The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
“We have lost an important and valuable part of human history, we are sharing the sorrow with the French...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
The General Secretary of the Egyptian National Movement Party in Alexandria, Muḥammad Shuʿayb said in press statements today that he always aims to instill a spirit of love and fraternity among the Egyptian people, indicating that he insisted on appointing 50% of the party’s general secretaries...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
Egypt’s Catholic Church Spokesman Hānī Bākhūm expressed his church’s sorrow and grief over the fire that broke out in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
In an earlier statement, he stressed that this historic, cultural and religious edifice belongs to all humanity, and called for addressing the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 16 Apr 2019
While the church leaders around the world were voicing their solidarity with the French people in such a humanitarian and historic tragedy, the firefighters were trying their best to bring the fire under control.
The major fire in Notre Dame Cathedral resulted in the collapse of its tower and the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 16 Apr 2019
The Secretary of Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria Fr. Ibrām Imīl said that the St. Mark’s Cathedral holds the first public meeting for the youth tomorrow, Wednesday, in the presence of Pope Tawāḍrūs II. The meeting will be attended by Bishop Pavle [Baflī] of the Churches of al-...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 14 Jul 2019
Since his arrest in 2013, Mursī was held at the ‘Scorpion’ [al-ʿAqrab] prison on the outskirts of Cairo. He was facing a complicated series of charges which are explained below.
In April 2015, Mursī was sentenced to 20 years of hard labour after being found guilty of ordering the unlawful...
Date of source: 13 Apr 2019
The NCW President Dr. Māyā Mursī received an Honorary PhD in Philosophy from the University of Jharkhand Rai in India for her effective role in the fields of empowering women and achieving gender equality.
Mursī is the second Arab and African and the first Egyptian woman to receive an honorary...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
Within the framework of their external tour for inviting the Egyptian expatriates to exercise their right to participate in the Referendum on Constitutional Amendments, the delegation of the Future of a Nation (Mustaqbal Waṭan) Party met with the leadership of the Egyptian community in Italy. The...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
The International Mission for the Follow-up to the Referendum on the Constitutional Amendments of Egypt is a coalition composed of 3 international organizations and one Egyptian organization. The mission is preparing to follow up the referendum on the amendments to Egypt’s 2014 Constitution, slated...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
The Coptic Orthodox Church Official Spokesman Būlus Halīm stated that the registration procedures of three new churches in Indonesia are currently underway, bringing the number of Coptic Orthodox churches in there to five.
Pope Tawāḍrūs assigned the responsibility of registering and accrediting...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
Bombing is considered the worst form of violence faced by Colombo since 1996, in which it took place in the Sri Lankan Central bank, and led to the death of approximately 100. This attack was by the Tamil Tigers of Northern Sri Lanka in an attempt to have a separate homeland. This conflict lasted...
Reviewed by Farah Sallām
Translator Farah Sallām
Date of source: 7 Feb 2019
Dirk Neven: Bishop Marqus, thank you for having us. I am here in order to see if it is possible for my church to organize trips to Egypt. This journey is not only a spiritual one. We also get the chance to go back to the origins of Christianity. Please have this letter of friendship from Father...
Date of source: 31 Jan 2019
First of all, we would like to offer our condolences on the death of Bishop Epiphaniyūs. The tragedy of his murder was not only discussed inside the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, but all over the world. Is there something you want to elaborate on about this subject?
Father Basilius: This...
Date of source: 30 Jan 2019
Jos de Heer: The foundation of knowledge about the relationship between God and men – so that seems very simple. You have a book and in this book there are all things written you have to know about your life with God. But then the problems come – for every book and every time you read a book, there...
Date of source: 1 Feb 2019
Saint Bīshūy, the founder of this monastery, was a monk living in the 4th and 5th century who is said to have seen Jesus. This tale is portrayed in various icons in the Wādī al-Naṭrūn. For example, we could contemplate some icons made by Dr. Izāk Fānūs Yūsuf, a late iconographer, who sought to...
Date of source: 1 Feb 2019
Anafora is the Coptic word for uplifting. The idea behind the retreat center is to offer “a hand from underneath to lift people up”, says Bishop Thomas. But Anafora can also mean offering or sacrifice: “the way to lift up is to kneel down”, he explains. “This is how we follow the way of Christ. He...
Date of source: 30 Jan 2019
He is the interim-priest at St John the Baptist Church, Anglican Church in Maadi. It’s his fifth ministry assignment in the Middle East. This church was built in 1931 and is shared by 12 Christian communities, accommodating groups that have no other house of worship. Reverend Richard’s life in the...
Date of source: 9 Apr 2019
The White House stated that Egypt and the United States have a strong strategic cooperation on economic and security levels.
"Today is the second visit of President al-Sīsī to the White House since 2017. Egypt is an important strategic partner in the Middle East, and the US assistance to Egypt...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 8 Apr 2019
Ḥawwās and an Egyptian team opened three sealed sarcophagi from the 26th Pharaonic Dynasty. One of the sarcophagi contained a well-preserved mummy of a priest, wrapped in linen and decorated with a golden paint depicting the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis. The team also opened the other two...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 8 Apr 2019
Qāsim said that each party adheres to its own draft law. "Al-Azhar submitted a full draft law. There is also a draft submitted by the National Council for Women, and Al-Wafd Party presented a project from MP Muḥammad Fuʾād in Al-ʿUmrāniyya. The three proposals must be merged, studied and...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 8 Apr 2019
"The International Union of Muslim Scholars, founded in 2004, has become a center for extremist groups and aimed at destroying and betraying the homeland and religion of those affiliated with it", the Minister of endowments said. The Minister added that there is not a single moderate scholar...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 7 Apr 2019
In his speech during the sessions of the National Seminar on the Modernization of Punitive Legislation in Egypt organized by the National Council for Human Rights and the Arab Organization for Human Rights, SāmiḥʿAbd al-Ḥakam said that the idea came, first, from the launch of the initiative "...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 17 Apr 2019
The decision was praised by those who opposed the treaty, which included Pope Shinūda himself, and may have been the main reason for his clash with President al-Sādāt, who was subsequently assassinated.
Given the turbulent political environment in the years following the signing of the peace treaty...
Reviewed by Xavier Owen
Translator Xavier Owen
Date of source: 9 Apr 2019
The prosecution service assigned to the accused indictment of spying for foreign organizations outside the country in order to commit terrorist attacks inside the country, disclose military secrets to a foreign country and those who work for its interests, financing terrorism, military training...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 2 Feb 2019 to 5 Feb 2019
In the monastery of Saint Anthony, the daily prayers begin early in the morning. Depending on the day, it may start at 3:00, 4:00, or 5:00 a.m. Despite the various start times, the format of the prayers is always the same. It begins with clergymen gathering before the altar in the main church of...
Date of source: 29 Jan 2019
On Tuesday, January 29, 2019, interns Melina Aboufalah, Cleo Mampaey and Joan Cabrera Robles of the Centre for Arab-West Understanding met with a Dutch church delegation in the guesthouse of Bishop Marcos in Shubra El Khayma, where the delegation was staying. During breakfast, we were introduced...
Date of source: 5 Feb 2019
The group had decided to make a stop at the Patmos Monastery since it was on the road back to Cairo. This monastery had been highly controversial in the 1990s due to: the heated debates between the church and state regarding the founding of the monastery; the distance of the walls of the compound...
Date of source: 30 Jan 2019
Located between Nile and Nile Corniche, the Holy Virgin Church’s terrain provides somehow a shelter for Christians escaping Cairo’s loudness, traffic and hustle. The current nave probably dates to the 17th or 18th century but the location of this church is much older. Local Christians believe there...
Date of source: 30 Jan 2019
We all have heard about the ancient tradition of mummification or Ramses II, who was one of the most powerful pharaohs and accordingly buried in a splendid tomb. But what I found most fascinating was his presence in the mummy halls. That’s right, he is still there. Even his hair. One would assume...
Date of source: 27 Jun 2019
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Date of source: 2 Feb 2019
Following the visits to the Monasteries of Makarios and Bishoy, Cornelis Hulsman led the
delegation to the village of Dayr al-Maimun where they met with Father Girgis, an old priest
who was in charge of the monastery and the small village in which it is located. There are
two ancient churches...
Date of source: 16 Apr 2019
On January 2014, the trial of Mursī and 130 other defendants began.
The defendants faced charges of setting fire to government and police buildings, breaking into prisons and plundering them, enabling prisoners to escape, and much more.
The Court heard witnesses, including former Minister of...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
What about the rest of the girls? Does the world still remember them?
“Bring back our girls”
Five years ago the slogan “Bring back our girls” was spread on social media and became an effective outing of support for the Chibok girls. Now however, nobody seems to pay attention to these girls...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 14 Apr 2019
The Ambassador underlined the importance of the summit of the voice of Egypt 2019, organized by “CC Plus” and Victory Link. She pointed out that President ‘Abd Al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī is the first president to visit the cathedral more than once during the holidays.
She also stressed that the political...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 13 Apr 2019
Pope Tuwadrus has worked hard to deal with this problem, to launch a new system of personal conditions with an open mentality and a reformed vision committed to the teachings of the Bible. The Christian communities agreed upon the articles of the unified law as final, in preparation for sending it...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 13 Apr 2019
The training sessions are a part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ strategy to maximize the human rights system within all sectors of the police and to strengthen the relationship with all layers of society, especially disabled people.
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 13 Apr 2019
Robert Iger, the CEO of Walt Disney, said - while receiving the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Award - that Hitler would have loved social media and that political leaders should stay away from it. He said that these social networks were created to reflect a personal opinion to the world....
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 13 Apr 2019
The members of Congress sent a strong message in which they expressed their concern regarding the widespread violations of human rights in Al-Sīsī’s Egypt and criticize the recent constitutional amendments that allow Al-Sīsī to stay in power until 2034.
The participating members of Congress...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 12 Apr 2019
MP’s Suzy Nāshid, ‘Abla Al-Hawārī, Jihād Ḥanafī and Māyssa ‘Aṭwa said that the amendment concerning a minimum of 25% of women in parliament is a great achievement for Egyptian women. Before 2014, the presence of women in parliament was very limited. The Constitution of 2014 was created in difficult...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 13 Apr 2019
Accelerating events
Yesterday the events accelerated before the announcement of the Sudanese President’s removal when the news was spread by an emergency meeting by the army.
Bashir is under international arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region, west of Sudan. ...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 15 Jun 2019
He revealed that the committee has discovered a number of rogue, different ranking officers responsible for the clear up of the protests in front of the Military Headquarters. These officers were not a part of the power specialized in clearing up the “Colombia” area. According to “Sūna,” the...
Reviewed by Basant Samhout
Translator Basant Samhout
Date of source: 15 Jun 2019
The Attorney’s office was supposed to announce the results of the investigation on the clear up of the protests that resulted in the death of tens of civilians. However, the attorney general, Walīd Saīd Ahmad, said in a press conference that the meeting he attended only discussed issues pertaining...
Reviewed by Basant Samhout
Translator Basant Samhout
Date of source: 14 Jun 2019
The official speaker for the council said that there are two different groups in custody, one consisting of five people and the other of more than 12.
The ruling council also confessed on Thursday that they ordered the clear up of the protests in front of the Military headquarters in Khartoum on...
Reviewed by Basant Samhout
Translator Basant Samhout
Date of source: 18 Jun 2019
The protests have initially started out against the rule of the former president, Omar al-Bashīr, who stayed in power for 30 years before he was deposed by the military. However, the protests continued to call for civilian governance after the Military Council took over rule after Bashīr.
The...
Reviewed by Basant Samhout
Translator Basant Samhout
Date of source: 12 Apr 2019
Bakhūm said in special statements that Pope Tuwadrus II, Dr. Andrea Zakī, Patriarch Ibrahīm Isaac and Bishop Munīr ‘Hannā agreed on all the controversial articles without revealing their nature.
Moreover, he affirmed that the Personal Status Law will be drafted by the churches' legal advisors,...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 11 Apr 2019
They discussed ways of strengthening cooperation with the NCHR for serving the citizens of Banī Suīf.
During the meeting, ‘Abdul-Gabir stressed the role played by the NCHR in serving the issues of interest to the citizens and working outside the box, calling for the expansion of this role to...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 23 Mar 2019
In the presence of Dr. Mukhtār Jumʿah, Minister of endowments and Dr. Usāma al-Azharī, Advisor to the President of the Republic for Religious Affairs, Anbā Armiyyā said that the subject of annual conference of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, entitled "Soft power and shaping future", is...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 24 Mar 2019
The seminar will be attended by: Dr. ʿUmar Ḥamrūsh, Secretary of Committee on Religious Affairs at the Parliament, Dr. ʿAmru al-Wirdānī, Secretary of Fatwā in Dār al-Iftāʾ, Dr. Fāṭima Hāfīẓ, a researcher and historian, who holds a doctorate in history from Cairo University, and recently published...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 25 Mar 2019
The visit was a part of deepening ecumenical relations between the German Evangelical Churches and the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt.
The meeting was attended by a number of Fathers, the Secretaries of His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, and Barbara Sulaymān, official of the external relations of the...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 12 Apr 2019
The monastery witnessed the murder of Abba Epanifanus last July by monks who were put on trial and sentenced to death.
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 12 Apr 2019
Praying for the victims of a roadside bomb that hit a tourist bus in Egypt:
In Dec. 2018, The Vatican announced that Pope Francis was praying for the victims of a roadside bomb that hit a tourist bus in Egypt. In a condolence telegram sent on Saturday by the Vatican secretary of state to Egypt's...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 12 Apr 2019
Some experts expect that the Turkish opposition will extradite the Brotherhood fugitives to Egypt immediately upon its ascension to power.
The Turkish Political Analyst Torgot Oglu said in press statements that the fugitive MB members in Turkey are most likely to scatter and flee to other...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Al-Barādeī sets out three pillars for successful transition from authoritarianism to good governance
Date of source: 12 Apr 2019
In another one written earlier this morning, he said that the transitional phase is the most difficult one in the history of revolutions, adding that the last decades of autocracy and institutional absence in Algeria and Sudan necessitate a overall consensus on national unity governments that take...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 12 Apr 2019
The two sides discussed increasing the IFC support to the private sector, particularly in the areas of transport and renewable energy.
Nasr pointed out that the IFC plays a significant role in supporting a number of mega-projects in Egypt, including the Benban Solar Park in Aswan, commending the...
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.